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This is the story about one of the one million alienated youth in Japan who got to Canada to become a "revved up drag_strip" racer in Metrotown Burnaby after he "failed out of senior school". Combining the idea of satellite kids and Japanese house hermit youth in one shot.
You can find a full explanation of Hikikomori at: http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/codycovers/hikki.html
You can find a full explanation of Hikikomori at: http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/codycovers/hikki.html
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Lyrics
Hikikomori
You say he quit his job in Tokyo
And you're all celebrating
You thought he was a real cold bitch
Though you've all heard him cryin'
And his girlfriend's pissed off again
He's been wanting him to marry.
But he's going home on the Chuo line
At the tracks he will now be staring.
Maybe he'll go postal
Maybe they'll just get hitched
Gods help their little musoko
Not to grow up disenchanted
Hikikomo--- and I will never dance with you
Watashi-janai--- and you will never see me with you
So new, with you, that's true
They say Kenichi's got celebrity
At the downtown arcade gamu
Apparently quite the marksman now
They all watching how he plays through
Doesn't get out much, his parents say
So long they can't remember
The world's since changed, city's bright
Starbucks on every kona
Did you hear some kid just stole a bus
Another did in this geezer
Sunset bleeds on Fuji-san
Take another pizza from the freezer
-chorus-
Hikikomori desu Hikikomori desu yo
Watashi-wa Hide out forever
They say he's a sushi boy
But he's just a drifting shell
Net has got him all cranked up
Hot n' horny as hell
His folks, well they dumped him here
When failed outta senior school
By night he's kareoke star
His girlfriend thinks so cool
As Manson raps with Eminem
He's a revved up drag strip racer
They'll go cruisin' down to Metrotown
A fast lane on every corner
Hikikomori janai des. Hikikomori Janai.
Watashi-wa Stretchin' out forever.
juyo janai desu
yuroyoro janai
______________________________
Translations:
hikikomori - hermit, house bound Japanese youth
musuko - son (mother's boy)
juyo janai - not important
yuroyoro kunai - not important
watashi - I
janai - negative form of "be" - am not
-chan - casual and/or diminutive form of address for children or initmate partnersI
Notes:
usually Mt. Fuji is called Fuji san; san being mountain but for a person a form of respected address, but I refer to it like a cynical Japanese friend of mine once did as: Fuji-chan (Mt. Fuji child)
The Chuo line travels along part of the ancient Toei highway (not to be confused with the modern counter part that runs further south) which was the Emporer's route from Tokyo to Kyoto. As such, this honourable route is a preferred site for suicides. The JR Chuo train line has one of the highest "jumper" rates - about 3 a week - in the modern world.
You say he quit his job in Tokyo
And you're all celebrating
You thought he was a real cold bitch
Though you've all heard him cryin'
And his girlfriend's pissed off again
He's been wanting him to marry.
But he's going home on the Chuo line
At the tracks he will now be staring.
Maybe he'll go postal
Maybe they'll just get hitched
Gods help their little musoko
Not to grow up disenchanted
Hikikomo--- and I will never dance with you
Watashi-janai--- and you will never see me with you
So new, with you, that's true
They say Kenichi's got celebrity
At the downtown arcade gamu
Apparently quite the marksman now
They all watching how he plays through
Doesn't get out much, his parents say
So long they can't remember
The world's since changed, city's bright
Starbucks on every kona
Did you hear some kid just stole a bus
Another did in this geezer
Sunset bleeds on Fuji-san
Take another pizza from the freezer
-chorus-
Hikikomori desu Hikikomori desu yo
Watashi-wa Hide out forever
They say he's a sushi boy
But he's just a drifting shell
Net has got him all cranked up
Hot n' horny as hell
His folks, well they dumped him here
When failed outta senior school
By night he's kareoke star
His girlfriend thinks so cool
As Manson raps with Eminem
He's a revved up drag strip racer
They'll go cruisin' down to Metrotown
A fast lane on every corner
Hikikomori janai des. Hikikomori Janai.
Watashi-wa Stretchin' out forever.
juyo janai desu
yuroyoro janai
______________________________
Translations:
hikikomori - hermit, house bound Japanese youth
musuko - son (mother's boy)
juyo janai - not important
yuroyoro kunai - not important
watashi - I
janai - negative form of "be" - am not
-chan - casual and/or diminutive form of address for children or initmate partnersI
Notes:
usually Mt. Fuji is called Fuji san; san being mountain but for a person a form of respected address, but I refer to it like a cynical Japanese friend of mine once did as: Fuji-chan (Mt. Fuji child)
The Chuo line travels along part of the ancient Toei highway (not to be confused with the modern counter part that runs further south) which was the Emporer's route from Tokyo to Kyoto. As such, this honourable route is a preferred site for suicides. The JR Chuo train line has one of the highest "jumper" rates - about 3 a week - in the modern world.
Cool back up harmony. Sounds good in this arrangement. Good job
here, maybe put a little brightness into your mix to bring out more
emotion. Nice song