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Hikikomori [Explicit] by codystrum [Email]
Genre: Acoustic Rock

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Uploaded: May 14, 2006 - 04:10:13 PM
Last Updated: Jul 13, 2006 - 05:50:19 PM
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Japan (45), hikikomori (1), hermit (1)
Description:
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

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

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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.

Hardware:
See CulDeSac song notes

Software:
Garageband
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Nice song &mdash 05/14/06 - 11:06:10 PM
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

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Nice song &mdash 05/20/06 - 02:33:51 PM
What do you mean by "brightness in the mix" ; sounds interesting...

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Hikikomori &mdash 06/02/06 - 04:21:42 PM
I am Japanese. And I wonder song title hikikomori.

And music sound seems ambient it.
I agree it.

By the way, are there hikikomori in USA?

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Hikikomori &mdash 07/09/06 - 04:19:00 PM
Yes there are what WE call "house hermits" in North America (USA and Canada) but it is much more rare here. We call the disorder AGORAPHOBIA and it is technically the fear of open spaces. However, it is often combined with SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER for which there is medication called SSRTs - such as Paxil, Zoloft and others.

From what i read in Japan, hikikomori is allowed to go on more there for several reasons including:

1) the society being about 30 years behind in term of mental health counselling of mental disorders (sorry I have lived there, visited my friend on a mental ward in Kita ward Tokyo, and this is a truth, though I thought the level of care in the hopsital was really kind and good)

2) an emabarrassment on the part of the families of this condition and willingness to keep their children and adults in care at home. For better or worse, kids in Can and the USA would be hauled to a counselor and hauled out of the house before this condition became set it).

I must say though that we have many many youth fromm Asia "dumped here" after they fail out of the systems back in Asia who live in homestays or worse, unsupervised except for an absentee agent. And often, they get into serious trouble. I have often sent my students home for anorexia or for getting beaten in gangs and so-on: car racing is more a Chinese youth phenomenon, popular and deadly in the Lower Mainland BC (Vancouver) but I guess it is growing in Japan judging by the movie Tokyo Drift which may or may not be realistic. This kind of trouble is what I sing about in the last verse. [I wrote this song long before Tokyo Drift and I had never heard of these car clubs when I lived there five years ago - motorcycles were more common].

Check out the BBC links I have provide for a very in-depth series on hikikomori.

Thanks for your interest.


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