This song is a cover of AKB48's Everyday Kachusha done in Oyaji Kayokyoku Style.  Here is the original if you've every wondered what it would sound like to autotune somebody strangling a cat.

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Lyrics: Akimoto Yasushi.  Music: Inoue Yoshimasa

AKB48の「Everyday, カチューシャ」歌謡曲スタイル

LYRICS
you and me talking low in the shadows 
 of the ocean and her shadows 
 a solemn serenade or the best that i can muster 
 in the vein of gower and chaucer 
 my dear! had i struggled all this time ‘til you came near and shined a light on me? 
 love won’t be without mortality 

 swaying palms, i’m teasing out your motives 
 and your voice is plainly votive 
 proclaim my love! the abelias are my censers 
 the cicadas are my chorus 
 but lo! why did you have to go and spoil the show, and shine a light on me? 
 forever will never be enough for me 

 you and me getting high in the kitchen 
 on the fumes of our suspicions 
 heavy haze, disrobe without pretentions 
 at the merest of suggestions 
 my dear! for once can we embrace without the fear? 
 you shine a light on me

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You And Me

Lyrics and Music by Justin Johnson
Saxophone by Mike Bomhof
Artwork Photography by Yu Oshimura
Mastered by Dana White at Specialized Mastering

LYRICS
3am, Golden Gai. I want to say goodbye
But I'm beckoned forth by the lights
Past the kids and the touts
Alive with secret doubts
But none wear it as well as I
It's a scene
Young lovers start to lean
Towards the doors and the steam
That masks a modern hell they'll find at their hotels
No one's asking, but i know it well 

3am, Golden Gai. Communion with the gods
Saint Dazai would be proud
Lacking scope, lacking trust
My god, they're just like us!
Made of lies and minor lusts
Hid by a screen
A feint of history
Made great as it recedes
Cicadas in the trees are heard but can't be seen
A postwar literary dream 

3am, Golden Gai. I wanna say goodbye
But I won't put up a fight
Make a spark, ignite my skin
Somebody let me in
Time's long since ceased to be a friend
Walk the line, writ long before our time
That spelled out yours and mine
Where you're prim, where you're touched
That boundary must be crushed
At least I'd like to think as much

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ゴールデン街 (Golden Gai)

Words and Music by Justin Johnson
Guitar by Stephen Ball
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios.

LYRICS
I'd like to drift away
Fill my sails with all your tales and see me off in peace
Across the Inland Sea

Your palanquin recedes
Falling forth so fast asleep the placid waters climb
To cover up my crimes

I never thought the enemy would ever share a bed with me
You're turning words like keys  to unlock sympathies

I hear the creaking boards
your wires gleam but still it conjures up a scene
on some bridge of dreams

I'd like to get away
Fill your mind with all my rhymes they're only smoke to me
And easier to breathe

I never thought the enemy would ever share a bed with me
You're turning words like keys  to unlock sympathies

You say I'm easy-breezy
Well I huffed and puffed but it was never quite enough
To save me from the stuff

I never thought the enemy would ever share a bed with me
You're turning words like keys  to unlock sympathies
You're making maps mislead; the forest's getting deep

The Gunboat Diplomacy

Across the Inland Sea

Words and Music by Justin Johnson
Guitar by Stephen Ball
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios.

LYRICS
I…I live my life without disgrace
Something you oughta think about
Before you do something to save face
In a room where no-one knows you

I…I make waves without making haste
See you falling down and up
Desperately trying to make a case

Slowly turn away

Patching emotional holes up with intellect
Hiding yourself in disarray
You think that no-one will notice it
when you’re dressing them down

You have a very keen sense of fair play
Never cease to remind me
Trying to get me to take the bait

Slowly turn away

I hardly know you, but it's OK
You seem to know me well enough
To bring me to this place
Where your heart is stored away

It’s been that way since the seventh grade
It’s been that way since the seventh grade
It’s been that way since the seventh grade

Slowly turn away

Ms. Evangeline

Words and Music by Justin Johnson
Guitar by Stephen Ball
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios.

LYRICS
Was the ark a prison ship, or a psychedelic trip?
Could a lion and a lamb lie down together and ride out the storm?
Can we play it fast and loose? I cut my teeth on younger girls
But I'm thinking about stepping up to someone looking older-school like you

You broke the rules
Like all you actresses do
You must be tired
Thinking about settling down
Start living wise
That's why you moved next door to me last night!

Was the ark a prison ship, or a psychedelic trip?
Could a lion and a lamb lie down together and ride out the storm?
Can we play it fast and loose? I cut my teeth on younger girls
But I'm thinking about stepping up to someone looking older-school like you

What do I do
When you're standing on my stoop?
You're all up in my turf
Drinking wine on my roof
Do I tell the truth
Of you and me? Insanity!

Was the ark a prison ship, or a psychedelic trip?
Could a lion and a lamb lie down together and ride out the storm?
Can we play it fast and loose? I cut my teeth on younger girls
But I'm thinking about stepping up to someone looking older-school like you

Lions and Lambs (Was the Ark a Prison Ship?)

Words and Music by Justin Johnson
Guitar by Stephen Ball
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios.

LYRICS
two young lovers with talent and brains
vis a vis undercover with silent refrains
but somebody erred and it never was contained

two young brothers in fortune and fame
its the last thing to go and ain't it a shame
when the tears are all cried and nothing else remains

it's the delicate art of venial sin 
but there's more to last night

you swore that you'd love me and you'd give me your days 
with my pens and my papers and all my crazy ways

but i was given to drink, you were given to indulge
what were we thinking? look where we've fallen from

you float with a grace i've not yet seen
and you smile like a friend but you'll kill like a fiend
and its late at night and i'm covered in ink with a candle and a dream

well its two young lovers with talent and brains
its the first thing to go when the stamina wanes 
and the who thing falls apart

it's the delicate art of venial sin 
but there's more to last night

you swore that you'd love me and you'd give me your days 
with my pens and my papers and all my crazy ways

but i was given to drink, you were given to indulge
what were we thinking? look where we've fallen from



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The Ballad of Francis and Zelda

I don't know how I may feel about how the wind may blow
Won’t believe the way things are, ‘cause you say you  told me so
You cut me off at my knees, but I’d walk a country mile
If it would lead me to your smile

I don't know how I may feel about how the sun will shine
How my heart was left unlocked and blind to your disguise
I turn and look for you, but all I see is pain 
In every bed I've searched in vain

Seasons fade like childhood haze, still I stayed to watch the sea
Some one told me ‘roads diverge’, never mattered much to me
And when the bury me, Will someone come to pray 
‘Why must it all turn out this way?’

If you know astronomy, there’s a place where we can meet
If you hear my satellite sing, events will set you free
‘Cause you’re celestial now…
And burning far away from me
You told me love would set us free


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レーベル  EXPRESS

This is a cover of Rouge No Dengon, by Yumi Arai.  Originally released in 1975 on the Express label as a single off the album COBALT HOUR, Rouge No Dengon is most famously known in beyond Japan as the opening song for Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service.

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NYCインディズ風の「ルージュの伝言」

Music by Justin Johnson
Artwork Photography by Yu Oshimura
Mastered by Dana White at Specialized Mastering


新宿モーニング (Shinjuku Morning) [Instrumental]

The lyrics to this song are adapted from Takamura Kotaro's poem of the same name.
The album was recorded entirely on an Elektron Octatrack and a iZotope Spire Studio. This song contains a sample from Rei-Opus IV by Shiro Sagisu from the album Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone.

この曲の歌詞は高村光太郎の詩をもとにしている。ピアノのサンプルは鷺巣詩郎のRei-Opus IVです。アルバムはiZotopeのポータブルレコーダーのSpire(スパイア)で作りました。

荒涼たる帰宅 (Bleak Homecoming)

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Gunboat DiplomacyはMaru in Michiganのパパの音楽です。
Nice to meet you。

Gunboat Diplomacy is Justin Johnson, father to Issa and Maru. I have one foot in Michigan and one foot in Kanagawa.

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