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All I Have
04:27
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ALL I HAVE
Where is my Hero? My dark Angel to lead me astray
From something I’m not strong enough to leave behind.
I wear a mask of Happiness
For my heart has died, I’ve become complacent.
You’re all I have, but there has to be more.
Something is wrong.
I need a reason to leave you.
Is it my fate to live this way?
Could it be better? It could be worse.
I’ll never know until…
A new wind changes direction,
Wind from my angel’s wings
Giving me the strength to say “goodbye”.
You control freak!!
I’m sick and tired of playing your game.
You’ve controlled and manipulated me for way too long.
And yet I stay, I don’t know why.
Maybe your smile, maybe your playfulness.
Maybe you’re all I have, but that’s not much.
Everything’s wrong.
I need a reason to leave you.
Is it my fate to live this way?
Could it be better? It could be worse.
I’ll never know until…
A new wind changes direction,
Wind from my angel’s wings
Giving me the strength to say “goodbye”.
I feel a warm wind on my face.
I see new horizons.
My tears flowing, but I’m not sad.
Everything’s waiting for me.
My angel has come, but now I walk in its shadow.
Life holds uncertainty, where do I go now?
Where do I go now?
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The Boy’s in Love With the Beat
He just walked in. I cannot fight the feelings that I have for him tonight.
Every girl has tried her best to get him home, get him undressed.
I’ve been watching for a long time now. I know your game, I’m on the prowl.
The dance floor circle opens up to let him in.
He starts out slow, feeling up the beat.
He pushes it hard. He pushes it deep.
Once he finds that beat, he won’t stop rocking,
Breaking out moves that we all find shocking.
The girls all think they’ve got a chance, but all he wants to do is dance.
He’s not going home with you tonight. That boy’s in love with the beat!
He’s in love with the dancefloor, baby.
He doesn’t love anybody, girl. He’s only in love with the beat.
The DJ takes it up a notch, now all the girls have turned to watch
This hot and sexy, naughty boy. Slave to the rhythm, rhythmic sex toy
Wiping the sweat off his wet, hot flesh, he tears his shirt to show his chest.
We all can see his toned body getting harder.
See him smiling, sweating, panting,
Licking the dryness off his lips.
I’m getting tingling sensations
As little beads of sweat trickle down to his hips.
They can’t get him, but the girls all try. He’s such a tease they wonder why.
The dance floor is what he comes for. That boy’s in love with the beat!
He’s in love with the dance floor, baby.
He doesn’t love anybody, girl. He’s only in love with the beat.
Tonight he is moving so damn groovy. Feel like I’m watching a porno movie.
I can’t take it anymore; I’m going to take my freak out onto the dance floor.
The way you fuck the music, gets me hot. You’ve been teasing this girl quite a lot.
I love it when you lose control. Feel the beat, let it go.
Your head starts thrashing side to side, I want you now to come inside.
My dance floor has opened up for you. Come feel a beat you never knew.
Let my body be your dance floor, baby.
Dance on me to the rhythm of my heart.
Let my heartbeat seduce you.
Come feel a beat you never knew.
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Meet Me in Tokyo
05:21
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You wake up lonely as I go to bed alone.
If I could only be the one to bring you home.
Half a world away I feel your solitude, it tears me apart.
Pictures of your beautiful smile hiding an empty pain filled heart.
Meet me tonight on the crowded streets of Tokyo,
Where the neon lights flash dreams in your mind.
When your eyes meet mine, my baby, you will know.
My love for you is so strong, I won’t be hard to find.
Walls we build to protect our hearts creates a prison we don’t break through.
I too, know that pain you’ve felt, finding your love had not been true.
Surrender your frigid heart to me, I want to feel its shattered ice slice into my hands.
My blood runs warm to thaw you whole. I’ll take the pain to free your hurting soul.
Meet me tonight on the crowded streets of Tokyo.
Let me be the one to ease your tortured mind.
I give you love, the kindest you’ll ever know,
My faithfulness is something that’s so hard to find.
So many people, so many spirits broken,
No trust, no warmth, no chance in hell that you’d ever fall in love again.
No one to open up to is no way to live your life.
Life will have its sorrow and pain, it makes us stronger over time.
Strength for you to tear down that wall, and I will destroy mine.
We will meet again, but this time our story’s ending will not be the same.
Forget the miles that keep us apart. Forget the past, let’s reignite this flame.
Meet me tonight on the crowded streets of Tokyo,
Where the neon lights bring memories back to my mind.
When your eyes meet mine, my baby, you will know
The love we should have never left behind.
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Defend The One You Love
04:02
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I am the cause of your misfortune.
I am the reason behind your pain.
You surrender to me,
You do it all to defend the one you love.
I’ve seen the beast inside. I should be afraid,
But curiously intrigued, I need you by my side,
my seraph of the night.
Solace, あなたの陰の中にいる。
It’s where I want to be, it’s where I want to hide.
Helpless, trapped in the reflection of your eyes.
You keep me safe from the world outside.
Come for me, my angel.
助けて、私を守って。
You wrap your dark wings around me.
Fly me away from 残酷な現実。
I’ve destroyed you, but we are the same beast breeding vulgarity.
Believing only the strong should survive.
Save me.
平和なあなたの陰を探している。
ここにいたいそして隠れていたい。
あなたの瞳に映しだされた私。
Shelter me from この世界。
あなたの黒い翼で私を抱いて、愛を守って。
Solace, あなたの陰の中にいる。
It’s where I want to be, it’s where I want to hide.
Helpless, trapped in the reflection of your eyes.
You keep me safe from the world outside.
平和なあなたの陰を探している。
ここにいたいそして隠れていたい。
あなたの瞳に映しだされた私。
Shelter me from この世界。
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Porcelain Doll
06:25
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Where has life gone? Where do you go now?
Half of your soul stands before me broken and used.
Like a porcelain doll on display for all to enjoy,
Easy to break, you’re just a fragile toy. Oh.
Do you feel time quickly passing you by?
Your emotionless smile now haunts me deep inside.
That hollow gaze has replaced the fire I lived to see in your eyes.
Your emptiness cleary shows through your disguise.
Please let me be the one to breathe the fire back into your soul.
Am I the only one who still sees life beyond those vacant eyes?
The lost spirit inside remains strong, but awaits for your embrace.
Unleash that inner strength and the pheonix again will rise.
Isn’t it sad? They all believe only what you want them to see.
Idolizing your illusion, they neglect the tortured soul beneath.
So now you’ve surrounded yourself with false love from those who will never truly know
The scared and innocent child hurting somewhere deep below.
Please let me be the one to bring life back to your soul.
Am I the only one who sees you’re simply human just like me?
Pleading for acceptance, blind to what’s really there.
Your confidence drowning in pain.
You must have faith in yourself, no shame in asking for help,
you’re so much stronger than you believe.
So where do you hide when everyone knows your private life?
Where do you go when you simply just want to cry?
I could shelter you till you’re ready to shine again after healing inside-
The shadow of clouds in the night concealing the brightest star in the sky.
Never give in to those who’ve bound your spirit in chains,
Breaking you down, keeping you restrained.
They control you ‘cause they desperately envy and fear
The greatness you hold inside.
Held in an unlocked cage, but still not free.
The reckless hawk struggles to fly higher with tattered wings
Just what are you trying to prove to you?
Can’t you see? Be yourself, not someone you think that we’d want to see.
It’s never too late to save the person you used to be.
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Miracle Storm
03:59
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Leaving on a midnight flight to a place I hardly know,
taking chances to prove myself again.
Leaving behind familiarity and the comforts of my home
to chase a dream that no one else would understand.
A full moon ignites the excitement of the city.
The sky is clear and the night is warm.
There’s something brewing in New York City,
Kanjirareru no? A Miracle Storm.
Following instincts without reason,
Listening only to the calling of my heart.
Every face I meet becomes a stepping stone towards my destiny,
bringing me closer to a brand new start.
Is it fate that summoned me into the city?
Blinded by chance, I cannot see.
But something’s about to break in New York City.
Let the sky rip open and pour miracles down on me.
The magnitude of the storm is frightening, but the downpour drowns my fear.
Believing there’s a reason for everything that’s happened in the past to lead me here.
The magnitude of this moment’s incredible, the energy’s insane
and thousands of others dance with me (in miracles) in the rain.
Clouds are broken and the storm has passed, an end to another show.
Returning home to my routine masquerade.
If second chances happen, seize it with both hands, hold on tight and don’t ever let go
and never give the shimmer of your dreams a chance to fade.
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7. |
Sayonara Sun
05:04
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The rising sun on your face
reveals a tear in your beautiful Eastern eyes.
Time is brutal, it crushes our hearts.
It’s difficult to swallow back our cries.
I know you have to leave,
but that doesn’t bring any comfort
to my choking heart.
I now ask why did we have to meet,
only so we have to part.
昨日のことみたい、 you painted my life with colors bright as the sun.
昨日のことみたい、 we broke the rules, two cultures becoming one.
It only seems like yesterday I met your smiling face
Who thought we’d come this far?
Who thought we’d be here, saying good-bye?
Both of us speechless, afraid the other’s voice
will start a rain of tears.
So, we remain silent, like fools,
repressing emotions out of pride and fears.
This wicked world has once again teased me
with something I could never call my own.
泣かないで、涙をふいて。
The time has come for you to return home.
My love, I won’t be the first to let go,
Your embrace as warm as the sun.
My love, I won’t be the first to turn away.
Final flight calls have begun.
さようなら, 友達。楽しかったよね？
My God, give me a bit more time.
My God, don’t take my sunshine away.
Your jet is leaving I can’t stop grieving
Turbines turning My stomach’s churning.
Engines screaming My tears are streaming
I must be strong for you now.
Recalling what was said as I look to the clouds,
They swallow the sun as your plane dissolves from view.
The sun may rise every morning in the East,
But will come back and set in the West with you.
忘れない。 You painted my life with colors as bright as the sun.
忘れない。 We broke some rules, two cultures just having fun.
I won’t forget that magic day it started with “hello”.
I’m glad we’ve come this far
いい思い出をありがとう。
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8. |
Empty Promises
04:04
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Ah Yes, you’ve let me down again.
What made me think that you’d ever really change?
In a rut, your life sucks, shit it’s always the same
You have no one but yourself to blame
You used to be fun. You used to be a riot. You used to be the one I looked up to.
But now you drown in your pool of self-pity; a do-nothing whiner, whose only problem is you.
Watching your life rot is too painful to watch, so I’m walking away now
I desperately tried, but leaving you and your misery behind.
How do you survive feasting on your sorrow?
Searching the bottom of a bottle for answers you already know.
Dreaming the same dreams (that’ll never come true), promising empty promises (is all you can do).
Regurgitating out the same excuses, pathetic and useless, I’m done with you.
Yeah you’ve let me down again.
You’re addiction won’t ease your selfish pain.
In a rut, your life sucks, oh yeah… nothing’s changed
Your sense of purpose now drowned in vain.
Living life in the hole you dug all on your own;
A shallow grave that your hollow soul crawls into.
It’s just as well, live in hell. There’s nothing more I can do.
I’m done wasting my time on you.
You’ll never change - a loser then, a loser still.
You’ve lost your drive, I’ve lost the will to put up with you.
Always solving your mindless little problems, but
You turned your back on me when I needed someone to go to.
Screw me once - shame on you. It hurt, but thought I’d give you
The benefit of the doubt, but now I see
You’ve screwed me over time and again.
I’m feeling like a fool. The shame’s is all on me.
Have you noticed your friends sliding away?
One by one they remove themselves from your self-destroying domain, because
One by one you’ve let them down again, and again, and again, and again.
You ask how, but will never
Turn your life around. You prefer to waste away and grieve.
All you desire will never transpire,
A catatonic waste of life is all you’ll be.
I’ve Spoon fed solutions to your menial delusions.
Your doom is just illusion, you’re apathy is a crime.
I’m moving on, getting out, getting on with my life,
Letting go, of those sucking away my time.
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Jinokoya Baltimore, Maryland
Jinokoya is dance alternative fusion performing at events such as Hard Rock Cafe, Baltimore Otakon Street Matsuri and other
Otakon performances, DC Food & Wine Festival at Nat'l Harbor, Philadelphia's "Celebrate Japan" & "Zenkaikon", as well as several Baltimore Fundraisers.
In addition, Jinokoya has performed a concert in Tokyo and has appeared at coffee houses and small clubs in Japan.
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