Seasons to Seasons (DEMO) written and composed by Philip Shibata

Seasons To Seasons (DEMO)

The song “Drifting” is about sitting down and pursuing your dreams while the world wants you to get up, work, and get instant results. 

Maybe it looks like we’re floating and drifting meaninglessly in the waves of life. 
But we aren't. We wait, we trust, and we work hard to grab that dream with our arms against all odds. 

"Drifting" is a cleverly made mash up of Japanese and English lyrics, featuring a Japanese artist and friend, Lauren Horii. Both of us being the "Happa" in Japan meaning "half or foreign mix", this song is about bringing the good and bad experiences into harmony and melody. Sharing this celebration of the start of this dream run of singles and an album!

Drifting

Drifting (feat. Lauren Horii)

Second Single of the upcoming album Sun/Moon. 

Doing a Kickstarter for the album: http://kck.st/37OvHa3

Story:
This song came from a talk I had with a guy who was fighting against "Hikikomori" (Japanese: social withdrawal symptoms) and the struggle he had feeling judged and shameful but still trying to make his life better by getting up each morning. 

Im hoping that this song will reach out to people like him struggling and let them know that there's people out here waiting and cheering them on. That I see them and their effort and for the bravery. "still struggling, but getting better, getting over."

Lyrics:
Verse 1:
They say, it’ll hurt for a moment, count to three now 
This burns, like a pierce of a tattoo to my heart now 

Numb is my mind from wresting 
The whisper of my aching, in the midnight  
Watch dust dance to my breathing 
As sunrise climbs the sealing, it's the dawning.
  
Chorus;
Thats when I Get up, Go on, I made it this far x2
Never gonna let you win 
Never gonna take you back   
I Get up, Go on, I made it this far  

Verse 2:
Sunset, so it is to my victory, now i'm wishing 
Knees weak, Im trembling to my pillow, I can’t do this

Numb is my mind from wresting 
The whisper of my aching, in the midnight  
Watch dust dance to my breathing 
As sunrise climbs the sealing, it's the dawning.

Bridge: 
Im getting better, Im getting stronger  
Im getting bolder, Im getting over 
You know it, and I know it, Hey 

Im getting better, Im getting stronger  
Im getting bolder, Im getting over 
You know it, and I know it, Hey 

Chorus;
(And so I)Get up, Go on, I made it this far x2
Never gonna let you win 
Never gonna take you back   
I Get up, Go on, I made it this far

Written by Philip Shibata
Produced and Arranged by: Jonathan Ogden and Philip Shibata

Getting Over

"Unravel" a collaboration with Philip Shibata and Joe Bae.

Unravel

Last single before the release of Philip Shibata’s first full length album “Sun / Moon” Produced by Rivers & Robots lead vocal Jonathan Ogden featuring artist like Montell Fish, Lauren Horii, and Earlybird. 

Sad World is about the revealing the temporary solutions we gave into and are sadly trapped and can’t figure out how to get out. 

This song is about giving the words to the teenage boy I was, sad, confused, and couldn’t find the words to understand this feeling I had looking at the world I was about to grow into. I hope that this song will give words to people who are speechless and scared of the reality we live in. 

Lyrics:
Flickering neons 
You mock the moon and the stars in the night 
Hopeless glow, of the blue
You stop the thought of death for a night
Oh oh oh x2 (Just for a night)

Chorus:
Its a sad sad world 
If I can’t have you 
Its a sad sad world 
If I can’t have you anymore 

Light your palm, see your mirror  
Go on and let those “likes" wipe your tears 
Fingers slow, one more show
Endless repeats, to escape these defeats
Oh oh oh x2 (to escape these defeats)

Bridge:
Lead me to play 
In your light, Every day 
here, now, here and now

Here by your grace
Every moment displayed 
Glory, how? Yet surrounded, safe and sound 

Lord Light my way, In the world gone astray

Sad World (feat. Earlybird)

Neo-Soul R&R Music from a Japanese-Canadian living in Manchester UK.

Philip Shibata

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