Ringo Shiina

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Ringo Shiina (Shiina Ringo), born Yumiko Shiina (Shiina Yumiko), is a Japanese singer-songwriter born on November 25, 1978. She works as a solo musician and singer and is a member of the band Tokyo Jihen. She describes herself as "Shinjuku-kei Jisaku-Jien-ya (a Shinjuku-style writer-performer)".

Yumiko was born in Urawa (now part of Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, to KÅ
 

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Suberidai

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Suberidai

The times when you use that gorgeous voice of yours
are times when you feel guilty about something.

Though I was sweating and shy
I just had to touch you
Though I was frozen and fawning on you
We changed into just a moment

It was then that everything ran down
Even if this was only the second cold autumn
The feel of the sand in the sandbox, all of it
slipped out of our hands

When you give me a kiss out of the blue
It’s always when you think you’re on my bad side

Though I was sweating and shy
I just had to touch you
Though I was frozen and fawning on you
We changed into just a moment

It was then that everything fell apart
I may have gotten used to the driving rain but
The lies I was so good at, the playing detective
led us to the final game.

This just hurts me so much to do
I can’t come out and say it but,
I have a feeling, as I am now,
I can end this without us getting back together.
If it were allowed,
all I’d want to do is cry myself silly
so you don’t think I care so much
I watch you off with my right eye
and wait for the memory to fade.



Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Cover)

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2kPc6Oh-E&feature=player_detailpage[/media]


xo
 

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This song is from the movie Mondo Cane and has been sung by various artists including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye, and Judy Garland. Enjoy Shiina´s version~


More

More than the greatest love
The world has known
This is the love I'll give you alone
More than the simple words
I try to say
I only live to love you more each day

More than you'll ever know
My arms long to hold you so
My life will be in your keeping
Waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping

Longer than always is a long, long time
But far beyond forever you'll be mine

I know I've never lived before
And my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more


xo
 

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Kuki (Stem)

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Kuki Live

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Pro.

xo
 

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Get ready to get in a deep mood...

Funeral Procession

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Funeral Procession

I received a strange e-mail this morning.
In which was written “The will to be born.” It says, Right now I’m struggling to exhale oxygen. My remains have already been completely disposed of... They say there’s no such place as Shangri-la.

I became aware coming out from between her legs.
And here I found out “half the meaning,” that right now I’m in the process of holding in the oxygen. The remains need no defending... If there’s no such place as Shangri-la, let’s make one of our own.

The courage to give birth to then scrap something
A knife cutting through thin air
Today, placenta, tomorrow

The reason I never take root even when someone devours me, is that “all living things are alone”

Now then, you hate that it’s our nature to continue this cycle of reincarnation. Of course you do. You still haven’t started construction on anything. But you have plans to start from scratch.

Your face.
Let me see it, please.




Now for a light trip..

Dynamite

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Dynamite

Dynamite!
Hey! baby when you kiss it’s dynamite!
Hey! baby when you hug and hold me tight
I just explode like dynamite

If I might do all the things
I’d love to do tonight
Then I would love you dear with all my might
Because you’re dynamite!

You do such big attraction
Chain reaction things to me
They oughta make you wear a sign of danger T-N-T
Love me right hey! Baby let’s make history tonight
The power of one hour of love’s delight
Just knocks me out like dynamite

You do such big attraction
Chain reaction things to me
They oughta make you wear a sign of danger T-N-T
Love me right hey! Baby let’s make history tonight
The power of one hour of love’s delight
Just knocks me out like dynamite

Because you’re dynamite!

Her craziness is so pretty. :biggrin She would have been perfect in Moulin Rouge if they would have casted her, totally!~


xo
 

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Togatta Teguchi (Sharpened Tricks)


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Togatta Teguchi (Sharpened Tricks) -(Ft. Mummy-D from band Maboroshi)

Did you forget about the place you heard
the death sentence judgment?
A baby’s first cry is a signal for capital punishment
There will be no deferment until the execution

Is it going to be nothing but chasing every day,
with our memo pads in pre-established harmony?
Our depressed accomplice
is the interested party that I recall

Today is the first and last X(death) day
Images pass by one another on the photograph of the deceased
The title of the play I wrote is my will
Who is the survivor that will leave an answer?
Excuses are not proof against it

When I snarl, it’s a signal of haughtiness
Howling is childish evidence
At this young age--no matter how blue [*]
A win for those that stood at the farthest ends

Today is the first and last X(death) day
One last smile is on the photograph of the deceased
The texture of the topic that bloomed is a will
Now is the time to correct your answer
With it not rounded, it won’t prick

[Mummy D]
Those tricks are sharpened like a knife
What’s arrested in silk wadding are my tricks
Now, prick me, I’ll take in both thorns and flowers
If I want it, go and take anything away from there
A life sentence imposed on me since my birthday
Until the day it expires I’ll refine my central nerves
All of it, even the glittering stars brought into existence, is an illusion
Atonement for a reality of disappearing rules.

[*] The color blue in Japan generally symbolizes the past and one's youth/nostalgia for one's youth.



Meisai (Camouflage)


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Meisai (Camouflage)

“Say, wouldn’t you rather retire to a faraway nameless town and live quietly?
I’m so tired of this life. Come and take me away”

I get away, but I miss the taste of the sweet juicy peach in a dimension called consciousness, so like sand.
Where is the heat that got away? I’m starting to shiver with doubt.

Just as I was, I lazily entrusted my last blue.
The temperature which knows it can never go back, and the color of fear of a night never-ending.
Stagnated on the borderline, the naïveté of my determination
The waves hitting the seaside cliffs I’ve already forgotten won’t draw away the regret nor the color of the waves.

Left waiting, the freezing scent is concrete, in an organ called consciousness, so like sand
Where is the cold that was left waiting? Motivated by the shivering and doubts.

Just as I am, the whiteness of the white-out pen imitates my affection.
The color of fear on my naked flesh every time I rush to patch things up for the moment, and then peel it away
The faintness in the emotion of just watching from the sidelines
Looking up at the thunderstorm I’ve already forgotten, there was the color of a cloud which wouldn’t shed tears for me.


xo
 

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I was looking for the song "I Won't Last A Day Without You" which was performed as a duet by Shiina Ringo and Utada Hikaru, originally sung by The Carpenters. The fan video "I Won't Last A Day Without Michael..." comes up for me, and I can't believe it- out of all the chances for me to get that vid, I'm speechless; that made my day. I advise you however, don't watch it if it will make you sad, (like I.) I will put it up and you watch if you see fit this version. That was really special.

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I Won't Last A Day Without You

Day after day I must face a world of strangers
Where I don't belong, I'm not that strong
It's nice to know that there's someone I can turn to
Who will always care, you're always there

When there's no getting over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

So many times when the city seems to be without a friendly face
A lonely place
It's nice to know that you'll be there if I need you
And you'll always smile, it's all worthwhile

When there's no getting over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

Touch me and I end up singing
Troubles seem to up and disappear
You touch me with the love you're bringing
I can't really lose when you're near

If all my friends have forgotten half their promises
They're not unkind, just hard to find
One look at you and I know that I could learn to live
Without the rest, I found the best

When there's no getting over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

When there's no getting over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you..



Fig Flower

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Fig Flower

Hello, I want to see you soon
California poppies are in the garden
When they appear at the back of the front yard,
look back that child is still not here yet

Hello, whats new with you?
Summer seems to have come to the garden
When it appears at the back of the front yard,
wait eagerly saying to him, ready or not! [1]

Seek a little
confusion from clouds blocking the sun
Dont go chasing after
a sky that alternates gold and scarlet colors

A flower without fruit is, even in dying, loved forever an innocent crime
Attract people by turning into a flower bud
So,
link up today and tomorrow

Pray without fail
for a wind in which shyness gives in to intoxication
Dont come attached
to a self that alternates mixed cotton yarn

A fruit without flowers is, as it rots, forgotten forever a harsh punishment
Cut it in half and eat it
So
take a look
at both today and tomorrow

A flower without fruit is, even as it dies, given the name of eternity
Who is this child wearing clothes that keep getting bigger?
A strangely sweet, vivid fruit
Ah
Sleep, oh you holder of sorrows.

xo
 
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