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Something Comes from the Ocean
Sadistic Mika Band
Something Comes from the Ocean
Please, Time Machine!
Well, if you like strange dreams and the distant past
Well, if you turn the switch to the distant past
The Jurassic period will spread out before you
It is clearly the age of fossils
An antonite is taking an afternoon nap
A Tyrannosaurus out taking a stroll ho, ho, holl
Well, the bounce of an innocent dream to a beautiful age
Well, when I tap dance, it�s like being in love in the movies all the time
A sparkling golden age
A girl wrapped in mink
Is crazy about Bogie�s fedora
Dreaming dreams of a Duesenberg
Well, something will change
If you like that period
Well, if you turn the switch a little to the past
Tonight, too, you can hear an evening waltz
In the Rokumeikan
A Pompadour is in full bloom
A silk hat sways (a ha ha)
You can go to a time you like
You can go to a time you like
The spiral of time in a single bound
Please, time machine!
High Time
You're the One
Today's Me (kyou no watakushi)
Greenfields
Outside, Everyone... (soto wa minna)
The First of Winter (tobira no fuyu)
Tightrope (tsuna watari)
Weekend (shumatsu)
I'd Like to Return to That Day (ano he ni kaeritai)
Close Your Eyes (hitomi wo tojite)
No Need to Reply (henji wa iranai)
Jet Trail (hikouki gumo)
Lyrics in extended
Spring, Come!
Speaking of New Year’s, it was playing Karuta
With my feet in the kotatsu,
While eating Ozoni.
This year I’m facing the New Year living alone.
Tonight’s bell is too lonely
It pressed in on my ears
Chorus:
If I just staggered outside the house
About now everyone will be lined up
Even though they said “omedeto” (congratulations),
I wonder if something went wrong somewhere…
Still, I bet everything.
Now, I just give it a try until spring shows up
It shouldn’t be far away now
Spring, come! Spring, come! Spring, come!
Hide and Seek
The shallow dusk of a clouded sky
A cloud floats, a puff on a cigarette
The wind has completely died down
I’m drinking hot tea
I try saying something like, “I want you.”
From behind I quietly let it slip
A lie like a sigh
I am drinking hot tea
There was nothing like slush
The plainly crooked coffee cup remains
The moment beats
I am drinking hot tea.
Please don’t say anymore.
It would be good if you could stay quiet that way.
Because I can’t hear what you say
Outside is a snowy landscape
Inside two play hide and seek
A face as if captured in a painting, laughs
I am drinking hot tea.
The Sky That Can’t Fly
Under a sky distantly separated from America
What can happen?
In a heart like a closed continent?
What can happen?
It’s a feeling as if a scam artist
whose painting has hardened into a lie
Has painted this poorly done sky
If a single aspiration sprouts wings
If even a poem is born
If even a single hope is born
Who would celebrate?
It’s a feeling as if a scam mother
Who had hardened into a lie
Had killed the child she bore
A Rainy Day in December
The smell of water in a bright street
Rain-possessed people come and go
Chorus:
In a town on a rainy incline
The wind starts to blow
A flowing wave of people
That’s what I’m looking at
That’s what I’m looking at
A hungry heart
Wounded by the rain
And a freezing sky
Meet on a hidden street corner
Repeat Chorus
Happy Ending
Now is the past.
Like Momotaro (Rip van Winkle)
Who lives longer and longer
If you can live happily ever after
Like in a fairy tale
If it is a happy ending, great.
But happiness is not a question of how things end,
It’s a question of how they begin.
Now is the past.
Even riding around in a Mercedes
Even surrounded by mistresses
They say you can become happy
If you can become prominent like a CEO
If you can become prominent like a CEO
That’s great
But something like happiness
Is not a question of what you possess
It’s a question of what you want.
Misora Hibari
Kobayashi Tatsuko
Mori Shinichi
Beatles
The Ventures
I highly recommend the Nippop website for short bios on the GS Bands
The Spiders
You're Gonna Lose That Girl (Love Advice)
The Tempters
She Really Thinks She's Something
The Tigers
The Golden Cups
The Jacks
The Spiders
Furi furi '66
Tonight tonight in my dark blue suit
(Chorus)
Furi furi furi furi furi furi furi furi
My hair is long it swings with the music
Chorus
Under my arm I carry a guitar
O, ready Go Go Go
They think I'm crazy, but I don't care a bit
I'll do what I please whether you care or not
Go going my way
My girl has left me and I don't blame her
Chorus
Hear she was sick and tired of the way I am
Chrous
I play my guitar when I am lonely
Ok, ready Go Go Go
The Jacks
Love Generation
When we try to start doing something
Because don’t want to pretend we are living
Sometimes we pretend to give the appearance we are dead.
Sometimes we pretend to give the appearance we are dead.
When you think this way, even the sky flys.
When you can think this way, it is joyful
Exchange (kawasu) the sake you don’t drink while you cry
Exchange the sake you don’t drink while you cry
Because we’d like to believe, we begin to doubt
All important things, even parents and lovers
Adults, are more imaginative/dreamy (steki)
There is an adult living in the child
In fact, when we want to be alone,
Like idiots we speak to lots of people.
In the depths of our words, there is love
In the depths of our words, there is love.
La, la, la, la….
Asakawa Maki
Folk Crusaders
Second Millenium
Okabayashi Nobuyasu
Endo Kenji
Good Night (Oyasumi)
Lyrics in extended
Asakawa Maki
When the day dawns
I’ll be on the earliest train
Get my ticket ready
Just one will do
After tonight, it’s goodbye to this town.
It was a pretty good town, but…
When the day dawns
I’ll be on the earliest train
Going to that town I heard about
I’m going to that town
I might get involved with someone cool there
When the day dawns
I’ll be on the earliest train
Everybody says to me
“Won’t you be settling down soon?”
But, but life is long, isn’t it?
I’m sure that town will be great.
When the day dawns
I’ll be on the earliest train
Please get my ticket ready
Really, really, just one ticket.
Someday I won’t be so frivolous
I’m getting on.
Blind Flowers
I’ve forgotten about old times
I’ve forgotten about you too
I can’t cry over brats like us
Wandering depressed finally it bloomed
This blind flower
Summer’s rays melted
Your eyes have clouded
Now we can’t sing for the two of us
Running, running, then running
A swell in the chest, a secret love song
In the distance it was dead
Our twentieth year your warmth
Finally, long ago, we even lost our scars
Go mad, mad, and then mad
At some point, they scattered
Those blind flowers
Folk Crusaders
Reincarnated Drunk
I died. I died. I died.
I went to heaven.
Up the long stairs
Up the cloud stairs
I dizzily climbed
Staggering, I continued climbing
I finally reached the gates of heaven
Heaven is a great place
Come and see it once
The sake is tasty
And the babes are pretty
I died on a DUI
I died. I died. I died.
I went to heaven.
But, in heaven, the frightening God
Took the sake and bellowed
“Hey! Here in heaven
Heaven is not such a slacker place
So try to be more serious” (Osaka-ben)
Heaven’s a great place.
Come visit sometime.
The babes are fine.
Everyday I booze it up.
I forget all about God.
“Hey! You’re still doing the same thing!
If that’s the case, then I’m serious, get out!” (Osaka-ben)
And that’s how I was kicked out
I descended the cloud stairs
I descended down those long stairs
And then I mistepped
I awoke in the middle of a field
I was reborn. I was reborn.
Dracula’s Love
I’m looking for a country with no light
I set out on a journey
Looking for a world of darkness
I set out on a journey
Looking up to the moonless sky
Tears welled up.
That was the love of a world of deep darkness
Oh! Please! Come back
Ah! I want your love
The first time we two met
At the sea on a starless night
We had a good time
On the dark, dark sandy beach
I tried wishing for just one small happiness
But, in the end, nothing works out for me/nobody suits me
Oh! Please come back to me
Ah! I want your love
O-buru gai
On o-buru lane is filled with my tears
Oburu lane is filled with wind
In the silver woods, love falls
The withered flowers scatter in the sky
Even a small bird forgets words
Okabayashi Nobuyasu
What We Want
What we want
Is not the struggle of life
What we want
Is the joy of life
What we want
Is not a self that lives for society
What we want
Is a society for the sake of ourselves
What we want
Is not what is owed
What we want
Is what is plundered
What we want
Is not to kill you
What we want
Is to live with you
Now, some misfortune must not remain
A still unseen happiness takes flight
What we want
Is not repetition
What we want
Is ceaseless transformation
Endo Kenji
Curry Rice
You and the cat you all like curry rice
Tapping away, you cut the potato and carrots
You cut the onion with tears in your eyes
Goofball! You then cut your own hand.
I sat playing my guitar
Curry rice
The cat loudly shadows us/hangs about
“Give me some meow!”
Mm…It’s a very good smell.
I’m watching the television as I lie about.
Somebody just cut their stomach, they said.
Ow! That must have really hurt!
Curry Rice
You and the cat like it a little mild.
I like it really hot.
Curry rice.
Curry rice.
Good Night
Good night to you
I’m going to bed
And to our cute cat with the long neck,
Good night.
If you have a dream, let it be of me.
Today there were somany stars
Good night to you
I’m going to bed
Good night
I’m going to sleep soundly
And to our cute cat with the long neck,
Good night
If I have a dream it will be of you.
Today the moon was so enormous
Good night, sleep soundly
Good night
Hirao Masaaki
Mickey Curtis
Sakamoto Kyu
Takarazuka Music Theater
Mon Paris
Nakano Tadaharu and the Columbia Rhythm Boys
Dinah (1934)
Iwai Akira
Dinah (1935)
Enomoto Kenichi (Enoken)
Enoken's Dinah (1936)
Nippon Victor Rhythm Jokers
Four Man Group in the City (Sing, Sing, Sing) (1938)
Kawada Yoshio
Rokkyoku Dinah (1939)
Lyrics in extended
Mon Paris (1929, Takarazuka Music Theater)
Even after being on the road for a year
I return safely
I am very joyful
Memories of unusual foreign beauty
Even divided it is unforgettable (waketemo)
Paris, the capitol
Chorus:
Beautiful memories
Mon Paris, my Paris
Walking at twilight in spite of oneself?
People you meet, too
Very playfully
Whispers of love
When I recall how I felt then that day
My heart dances
Chorus
Dinah (1934, by Nakano Tadaharu and the Columbia Rhythm Boys)
Dinah, when the moon comes out
I sing with you a seaside song
Chorus:
Dinah, please let me hear you (kikasete cho-dai, na)
Please let me cry (nakasete cho-dai, na)
A distant dream
Dinah, one sweet memory of love
The shadow of a blue moon deepens
Chorus
Dinah, I sing with you in the little window of flowers
A song of love
Chorus #2:
Dinah, sing for me Dinah (utatte cho-dai, na)
Dance for me, Dinah (odotte cho-dai, na)
In tonight’s moon, burning faintly
Wet, crying, cry for me
Your beloved shadow deepens
Chorus #2
Dinah (1936, by Iwai Akira)
Dinah
You’re always pretty aren’t you?
More than anyone, you’re very schon (beautiful)
That girl, she’s mine
(he, he don’t think badly of me)
Dinah
When she’s being sweet
That girl’s whispers
Echo in my heart
Both day and night, both dreams and ?
I couldn’t live without that girl
Chorus
Aah, Dinah You’re always pretty, aren’t you
You’re more schon than anyone
Oh, my baby, Dinah Lee
Repeat chorus twice
Rokkyoku Dinah (1939, Kawada Yoshio)
Dinah, Dinah, what is that, I wonder?
Because it’s popular in the English language capitol
It’s the first thing that comes to mind
In talking it down
When there is something I’d like to confide to that girl
Please sing, “Choi” for me, Dinah (utatte cho-dai, na)
The D in Dinah is the D for “dashare” (bad pun)
The “I” in Dinah is the “I” of i-ro-ha (ABCs)
People say that’s the beginning of things
The “na” in Dinah is the long (naganaga) nights
Sleeping alone of the sore-legged mountain bird
With the long tail (Was that a little long?)
Long nights (naganagashi yoru) if its “na”
The letter D, the letter I, and the single letter “na”
If any one of them is missing, it doesn’t come to anything
If all of them were missing, aaah…
Dai-nashi (No Dinah)
Tokyo March Futamura Teiichi
A Gay Caballero, Frank Crumit
Share otoko (Sharp-dressed Man), Futamura Teiichi
Links for Nakayama Shimpei music files
Kachusha's Song (Matsui Sumako)
Kachusya's Song (Rerecorded version)
Debune no minato (Fujiwara Yoshie)
Haabu no minato (Fujiwara Yoshie)
Hoko wo samete (Fujiwara Yoshie)
Something Comes from the Ocean
Sadistic Mika Band
Something Comes from the Ocean
Please, Time Machine!
Well, if you like strange dreams and the distant past
Well, if you turn the switch to the distant past
The Jurassic period will spread out before you
It is clearly the age of fossils
An antonite is taking an afternoon nap
A Tyrannosaurus out taking a stroll ho, ho, holl
Well, the bounce of an innocent dream to a beautiful age
Well, when I tap dance, it’s like being in love in the movies all the time
A sparkling golden age
A girl wrapped in mink
Is crazy about Bogie’s fedora
Dreaming dreams of a Duesenberg
Well, something will change
If you like that period
Well, if you turn the switch a little to the past
Tonight, too, you can hear an evening waltz
In the Rokumeikan
A Pompadour is in full bloom
A silk hat sways (a ha ha)
You can go to a time you like
You can go to a time you like
The spiral of time in a single bound
Please, time machine!
RC Succession
Big Harukochan
Big Harukochan, please understand
Big Harukochan, “I like you..”
I’m a small man, but please accept me
Big Harukochan
I’m daydreaming about you
Big Harukochan
Even though I care so much for you
You are too big
You are too charming and pretty
I’m a small man, but please accept me
Will you become the wife of a giant race track [owner]?
Big Harukochan, is it no good with me?
Height has nothing to do with it, please accept me
Height has nothing to do with it, please accept me
Please accept me, please accept me
Slow Ballad
Last night I slept in a car
Holding hands with that girl
The two of us wrapped in a blanket
In the parking lot of the Municipal Grand
Chorus:
On the car radio
A slow ballad
Evening dew covered the windows
I didn’t have the slightest regret
I heard that girl talking in her sleep
Really. I definitely heard it.
Chorus
We were dreaming
A dream that looked just like this
Carol
Louisiana
Cute, that girl—Louisiana
She always wrecks men
Sweet lips, trembling
Let’s cheerfully dance
Blue suede shoes
Along with the jukebox
Twist, Rock n’ Roll
Let’s get drunk on the sweet words
Oh, Louisiana
Oh, I want you
Let’s dance one more time
Let’s kiss one more time
Pleeeeeeeease!
Good Old Rock n’ Roll
When I was just a little boy
You know my one and only joy
Was listening to the good old rock n’ roll
Was listening to the good old rock n’ roll
Now I just turned twenty three
And if you wanna get a message to me
All you gotta do is play the good old rock n’ roll…
Gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John
He says he has the blues
But he has a lotta fun oh baby
Who oh oh baby have some fun tonight
We gonna have some fun tonight (5 times)
Matsuda Seiko
A Wind Blows
A wind blows
Now it is autumn
From today I am a traveler of the heart
I don’t want to show my tearful face
Violets, sunflowers, and freesia
A letter on the Takahara terrace
It’s because of the wind’s ink
Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara…
When I turn around, a grassy field with color
It seems I could go on living alone, couldn’t I?
A red bandanna wrapped around by neck
“Stop crying,” you kindly said.
Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara…
The wind blows
Now it is autumn
I want to return
I can’t return--to your embrace
The wind blows
Now it is autumn
From now, I am a traveler of the heart
My character is supposed to be bright
Violets, sunflower, Frissea
I don’t want you to worry
Breaking up is simply the start of a journey
Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara…
Putting a blade of grass in my mouth
I want to forget
I can’t forget—your smile.
Your eyes in my memory
The mysterious journey from summer to fall
The wind blows
Now it is autumn
I want to return
I can’t return—to your embrace.
Starry Night
Oh, starry starry night
Moved by a dream
My feelings only change to falling stars
I cannot sleep. The sound of the wind
Plays on my heartstrings
Blue night
On the stone path I saw in my dreams
Is a sad silhouette of tree leaves
With your hands in your pockets you look back
Saying innocently, “I like you.”
Like some kind of exchange of greetings
It’s like the reply is disrupted and time stands still
Oh, starry starry night
That utterance
Only the words gallop through the sky
I can’t sleep because of you
Everytime I think of you
My eyes open again
It’s a blue night
When the signal turns green
Arms around each other
We begin to walk together
Suddenly I was tired with kindness
And when I opened my eyes
I was alone
Oh, starry starry night
Moved by a dream
My feelings only change to falling stars
I cannot sleep. The sound of the wind
Plays on my heartstrings
Sakarada Junko/Three Flowers Trio
(Sakarada Junko, Masako Mori, Yamaguchi Momoe)
Yellow Ribbon
A yellow ribbon fluttering in the breeze
A straw hat running up the hill
You’re no doubt leaning against your window
Being so kind as to look at a girl like me
I want to go soon
I’d like to dive into your chest
You can probably see this ribbon
Please wait for the “love sign,” won’t you?
A yellow ribbon reflected in the water
On a lake a boat for two
Sitting opposite one another exchanging glances
We are drifting in a dream of love
This is how I want to go
I’d like to float to an unknown island
This ribbon is attractive, isn’t it?
Please feel the “love sign,” won’t you?
Yamaguchi Momoe
Unripe Fruit
Chorus:
If it’s something you want
You can do anything with me
I don’t even care if they spread rumors
That I’m a bad girl
When I fell in love
My eyes saw another self somewhere in you
When you hold me to your large chest
Beautiful tears spill over
If you are by my side
If you are by my side
I’m not afraid of anything
Chorus
When I fell in love I was reborn
As a new self within my heart
Embarassingly opening my half-closed eyes
I sincerely opened up to a secret for the first time
If you are by my side
If you are by my side
I don’t need anything
One Summer’s Experience
I will give you that thing
Which is most important to a girl
I will give you that important thing
That is shut deep inside my small self
I have protected it up to now
To offer to the one I love
I don’t care if I am soiled
I don’t care if I must cry
Love is priceless
This is an experience
We all have only once
The sweet lure of temptation
I will give you
That which is most important to a girl
I will give you that important thing
That glistens with the beautiful color of tears
If the one I love is happy
That in itself is happiness for me
I don’t care if you break me
I don’t care if you cast me aside
Love is priceless
This is an experience
We all have only once
The sweet lure of temptation
Red Attack
Chorus:
You are here, I am here
The answer is love only
You are here, I am here
All that exists is something that calls us
Love is the key that ties one person to another
If you have done something wrong
Throw the same pain to me
For example, even if the body is hurt
The heart is not dirtied
Whether unsure of yourself
Or while forgetting something
Whether seeking something
Or feeling hurt
We two are together
Chorus 2:
There is nothing
There is nothing
All that is is love
There is nothing
There is nothing
Except that you are
Love is the key that ties one person to another
Repeat Chorus 2
If you can forgive me
Please open your heart
And let me in
It is said that
When a person loves someone
They know tears
Looking out for one another
Supporting one another
Believing in one another
Or when feeling hurt
We are two, together
Repeat Chorus 2
Love is the key that ties one person to another
Ohtaki Eichi
Good Night
Poor
I became very sweaty
However much
I try to keep trying
It’s like the seal
Has already been put on it
It is always already decided
Poor, I’m poor, poor
Poor, poor
No time to spare
Lottery ticket, ticket
Bought it at ten
I won.
The pile of money jangles
But poor, poor, poor
No matter what, poor
Poor, poor
Piles of spare time
Bread and ramen
Give up meat, meat
Eat a pile, a pile
But I’m poor
Yep, I’m poor
Poor, poor.
There’s no end to it.
Bright (Uraraka)
There is a crowd of people
On Omote street
Crawling ants
With no place to go
Going every which way
Overflowing with both
Cats and taxis
Bright, bright
Bright Omote Street
I breathed the blue sky
My mood cleared up
I wonder what the 3 O’Clock tea-cake is…
On a walk, taking parents and children
Today is an enjoyable Sunday
Inoue Yosui
World of Ice
Two Who Don’t Go Home
The evening dew is more chilling than I thought
Both of their voices shivered, too
When I started talking to you
The streetlights of the city went out/disappeared
The stars are already getting ready to go home
Leaving two who don’t go home
The city still quietly continues to sleep
They are having their dreams
Like the words they say out of habit
I was only able to see a child that’s tucked in
And the warmth of a child
The child is already hurriedly dreaming
Leaving two who don’t go home
The stars are already getting ready to go home
Leaving two who don’t go home
A World of Ice
Outside my window there’s an apple peddler
An apple peddler calling out
No doubt it’s just someone goofing off imitating an Apple peddler
Because of the cold, my TV has turned a new color
It’s very hard to see that girl
That very attractive girl soon disappeared
This year’s cold is a record-breaking
Everyday snowfall, snowfall
A world of ice
Somebody, let’s tie our fingers together to show our love
Tie your finger with mine to show our love
It’s OK, even if it’s just a white lie
I’d like to feel frozen over all day
Entwine your little finger with mine
If it falls asleep everyone will just laugh
And I shouldn’t have to be in such bad spirits
What flows on—is it just time? Just tears?
Every day, snowfall, snowfall
A World of ice
I’d like to hurt a person’s feelings
I’d like to hurt somebody’s feelings
The reason why I can’t do it is probably just that I’m weak
People who hold that gentleness in their heart
Do they keep trying because they think someday
They might get something like a Nobel prize?
The shivering is probably the fault of the cold
It’s not ‘cuz I’m weak, right?
Every day, snowfall, snowfall
A world of ice
High Time
You're the One
Today's Me (kyou no watakushi)
Greenfields
Outside, Everyone... (soto wa minna)
The First of Winter (tobira no fuyu)
Tightrope (tsuna watari)
Weekend (shumatsu)
I'd Like to Return to That Day (ano he ni kaeritai)
Close Your Eyes (hitomi wo tojite)
No Need to Reply (henji wa iranai)
Jet Trail (hikouki gumo)
Betrayal (uragiri)
A Woman's Love (onna no koi)
A Woman's Heart (onna kokoro)
Hidden Love (yuusuge no koi)
Giving Life (inochi ataeru)
That's Love (sore wa koi)
Dearest Mom (ofukurosan)
Mournful Whistle
Apple Song
The Young Boatwoman
Mournful Sake
Like the Flow of a River
Sake: Is it Tears or Sighs?
Attached to a Shadow
It That Were Really So
Someone is Thinking of Their Hometown
A New Wife's Mirror
An Oath of the Hot Sand (Song of Foundation)
A Red Water Lily
Second Millenium
Reincarnated Drunk
Dracula's Love
Auble Town
The Camel Without A Hump
I'm Your Puppet
Golden Glass
The Sun Will rise Again
The Girl With the Long Hair
Furi Furi 66
Hey Boy
Once Again
Falling Tears
Michelle
Love Advice
Around and Around
Johnny B. Goode