Lyrics - Reaching the Dragon

Border City

Everyday I feel the same
Unending fear and numbing pain
All I know that’s near to me
Is just a made up dream

Something tells me you will see
That life is just a quiet medley
Of truth exposed and lies that crumble
Under your tired feet

I know this way will lead us there

Sotogawa ni ike ba
Shiawase ni nareru no kana
Tooku made todokeru
Subete no yume to
Mirai no susumi o

Mainichi anata to ishyoni itai kedo
Itsuka hanarenakuchya ikenai koto mo aru
Konna koto de aseranaide
Oozei ni damasarenaide
Damasarenaide

If we only could go far away
Maybe we could be happier
I want this wish to reach ahead
All of our dreams wanting
The way that the future’s moving

Sotogawa ni ike ba
Shiawase ni nareru no kana
Tooku made todokeru
Subete no yume to
Mirai no susumi o

Beauty Reflected

I want to see the beauty in me reflected
I want to know what exactly makes you hold on to
Something deeper something worthy of treasuring
Something more than just remembering

I am not exactly used to this
This empty feeling from the aim to hit and miss
There is nothing holding you back
So stop pretending you are right on track

I guess it’s alright if your words refuse to come out
I guess it’s alright if I don’t even know what you’re angry about
There’s a season in its passing
There’s a fine line we’re crossing
The gray days are a blur
But the perfect blue sky will make it better I’m sure

I want to see the beauty in you reflected
I want to know what exactly made me hold on to
Something deeper something worthy of treasuring
You are so much more than just remembering

I am not exactly used to this
This empty solitude from trying to retrieve what didn’t exist
There is nothing holding me back
So I’ll stop pretending I’m right on track

I guess it’s alright if your words refuse to come out
I guess it’s alright if I don’t even know what you’re angry about
There’s a season in its passing
There’s a fine line we’re crossing
The gray days are a blur
But the perfect blue sky will make it better I’m sure

Maybe the right amount of time
Maybe just a glimmer of light
Maybe the warmth in my smile
Will help you see

Morning Light

Oh morning light you came too soon too strange
My spirit is still sleeping
The gray buildings watch
The dust and papers whisper
Yesterday was better

Tobe tobe haruka na kaze ni notteiko
Tobe tobe tsuyoku kokoro no soko kara

Walk along this lonely place
The wind and moon will surely recognize your face
Save a bit of thought a bit of hope
Just for now you will know

Tobe tobe haruka na kaze ni notteiko
Tobe tobe tsuyoku kokoro no soko kara

My hands grip holding on to what is left of time
My shoulders ache beneath the crows weight and his mindful eye
There’s a shadow there above the skyline
There’s a warming flare of sunspark in my sigh

Tobe tobe haruka na kaze ni notteiko
Tobe tobe tsuyoku kokoro no soko kara

I will love you with my soul’s space
Even when you cannot
I will love you with my spirit
Even when you will not

I wait I wait
Patiently as an oak tree
Honest as a season
True as an orbit, clean as new snow on a dark winter night.

Dragons

This shell has hardened
the impact of each season forcing growth around my flesh
There is no reason
I follow the tide, chasing after jewels he will not hide

There is no safety
when I'm just me
there is no harmony
if I don’t think

but I rotate freely
from the swallowtail to the maple tree
I'm shifting angles
from the snow to the summer breeze
They fly in circles
loving wind and blazing sun
I'm gazing skyward, won't be tired
there's so much to do before I'm done

A single day in paradise
could be a hundred years of everything you've ever known
so there is no sacrifice
in easing your caged heart to release the things you thought you owned

Like Water

Nothing seems to be going your way today
You’re a little lost, a little hurt, not knowing what to say
But there's a spark in the sky and your smile’s in my mind
and I know that everything will be fine because
Somehow you’re with me all of the time

I still believe that the moment's breathing beauty as we speak
Listening to your heart's fast beating
Our inner pulse is rising rising, like water finding higher ground

I cant believe it's 68 degrees
In the middle of January
I feel like a woodland fairy stretching
after hibernating
Every year time moves faster
A short December, a rough November, it was a hard October
Feel like a coaster with no guide
like a bird escaping the winter bite

Every new step is honoring
everyone I’ve ever met, anyone I’ve ever loved, anyone I’ve ever sang my heart to
how could I ever forget you
when you're in everything I do

Send Me Some Hope

I can’t forget what you said
I can’t erase negative space
Tomorrow unfolds
Life wheels ahead
But my revolving doors are caught on track

Send me some hope
Don’t want to grow old
Bright wings unfold
Reaching out
My mind takes hold

You can’t replace what’s already dead
There are mountains to climb
And I’m still chained to this bed
Tomorrow breaks free
It fights through the mold
But these engines and gears
Have already been sold

Across the ocean
Bright reaching horizon
We are all made
We are all made to love

Ikiru

Shiawase ni naru
Shiawase ni naru
Ikiru

Nandomo ochitemo
Aruiteiku
Donnani okotte mo
Waratte iku
Ikiru
Korekara
Ikiru

Donna ni okotte mo
Nando mo ochite mo
Samishiku natte mo
Ikiru

Takaku sora no ueni
nobore, nobore
Kumo no ue ni hashire
Hashire hashire
Aijyo o mote ba ii
Sora no ue ni
Takaku nobore ba ii
Nobore nobore

Life Signs

Oh monumental life signs
Read wise unspoken truths
The lines are crossed and wrapped around
A jagged falling neuse
I am just one particle in a hundred million one
Taken back amoeba like in a cave
In a shallow wading pool

There’s a bit of life a bit of wanting bite
Swallow suck and spit into the light
Sing beneath the fire
Of openings of openings of tombs and pyres
And long forgotten ways
Reformed remade reborn relaid
For a new foundation

Itsumademo ushiromuki wa
Yamenasai sakinisusume
Itsumademo kanashikutemo
Korekarayo sakinisusume

The pear trees drop wasted fruit
For the earth to feed upon the flesh and root
Untasted abandoned for no one to see
Poison streams into the well seeping beneath this
Frozen hell but the glare of waking in the night
Makes you jump and cry and open enough to ride
The eternal hum the eternal want
Of love and hope and light and right
This space expands 500 fold
One thousand million one
A particle a manacle a wondrous monumental sigh
Reformed remade reborn relaid
For a new foundation

Taking Turns

I'll take my turn this time
you can let in just a little light through the binding on my eyes
every moment here just feels like a dream
these sleeping thoughts will bring us closer
or tear us apart

I want something I can never have
a perfect future and a glorious past
we try to just pretend It will get better
better in the end
will it get better

there are seconds when I want to escape
retreat from being harmed and let go of this fate
your love cuts into me so tight it burns
some sense of freedom comes when we can learn
from this hate, misunderstood

you will find your peace of mind
release the pain you've held inside
clarity and love's divide
will warm your blood to where he bites
from the heart fold to the tongue
circulate around your sun
taste the water when you're done
a sweet fulfillment from the ground
I will let you hold me down
just until I fly away.

Kabuki

They say time can heal anything
Well, time moves like a cold freeze
That doesn’t even sting
I am waiting patiently
For what I’ve sown to rise
I am not afraid to die

Tatakae yuuki o motte

Cool blade of steel in my hand
Sliver of moon burned in the sun
Cool touch of your sumi brush
I am a one woman battalion

Art is life
But life is bleak
How can darkness streak from
My mind into my pen
There’s nothing left to share within

I drive too fast
But exit last
Keep holding on my time worn mask
Don’t want to sleep
Don’t want to weep
Don’t want to fall into the ashes we keep

My eyes are digital mirrors
I see my future in the victims I behead
They play my life in pictures
They know my past and everything I did
Just like a trained tiger I hear their voices calling in my head
I’m not afraid of the fire
I am a soldier risen from the dead

Tatakae ikinasai
Tatakae yuuki o motte

Cool blade of steel in my hand
Sliver of moon burned in the sun
Cool touch of your sumi brush
I am.. I am..
There is no woman or man
There is no pen or sword
Only now

Fate

Fate has a way of showing its many faces
Watching us wither, an echo of a past you
Your actions appear as someone I think I know
Just when you think you’ve figured it out
You realize you don’t know what it’s about

Maybe it was meant to be
Every link you sew is building up a patterned line
Maybe there is predestiny
Every step and thought is building time is building life

She is helping me stretch untwine my line
But I don’t want to hold
Don’t want to know the rest of it
Would I have met you anyway
Would I have found you in the maze
Broken pictures and facades
Small talkin’ looks songs and guitars
Just when you thought you figured it out
You realize you don’t know what it’s about

All your hopes and dreams
Are scattering like autumn leaves
Everything you do- the subway, car, train, or the zoo
I wish I may I wish I might
You might just find the stars tonight are winking

Lullaby

Welcome to a place for sleeping
And wading in the deep
Blue of your sanctuary
Just leave your sorrow
On the shoreline
The waves will wash it down down down
Just rest your mind on your pillow of marigolds
let your feet wade in a shallow pool
On a warm spring day
Titania will come and bring you kisses
Like honey, goodnight in her field of four-leaf clover
And the fates will come and tie one more knot with one more
String in your warm embracing tapestry
Right before you fall right before you go
Nothing can harm you now

All Songs © Lisa Furukawa 2006

Lyrics - Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver

Sitting up high on a tall windowsill
Staring at mist and grass down past the hill
Creating a wide open basket for shells
Nearly overflowing
The others have already gone to the sea
It’s my turn to find what is waiting for me
3000 chances dance eternally
Chasing me down
Making me recognize

Everything comes easily
Grasp the possibilities
Hold your gaze up high above the horizon now it’s time to

Dive in, reach out, open wide
There is nothing here but time
Avail yourself to your inner guide
Take your chances
It’s easy if you try
(I will not give into this fight
The pressure can’t pull me under
The current will carry you to
Where it’s shining)

The Lion is down she’s no longer fast
The ancestors see how she hides and they laugh
Mountains are towering over her path
She’s nearly out of breath
I know there is effect for compassion or crime
All that we do resonates in time
3000 ways we can all be sublime
They’re holding me down until I internalize

Dive in, reach out, open wide
There is nothing here but time
Avail yourself to your inner guide
Take your chances
It’s easy if you try
(I will not give into this fight
The pressure can’t pull me under
The current will carry you to
Where it’s shining)

Girl In A Bubble

I can see you. You look so big.
I imagine your smell, and fall into my bed.
I’m floating. There’s nothing to touch.
There’s nothing to feel.
I hear a sound. Sometimes I want to break this.
Low on the ground. I like the patterns I wish
Opening my, opening eye, opening myself.
Opening my heart. Don’t break.
I can see you. You’re wearing a suit.
I imagine my shell, and becoming new.
I’m floating. There’s nothing to touch.
I’m floating. There’s nothing to feel.
I feel. Do I?

This Tide

I'm lost at sea
I will not drown
I swim out far
There is no ground
He disowns me
I will not frown
His stubborn heart
Will not put me down

This tide will not hurt me
This tide will not tire me

This life's chaos
It disappears
Time's at a loss
It will not swallow me

This tide will not hurt me
This tide will not tire me

Raise me up, tumble me down
Knock me in those circles again
I will not drown
Pull me back, turn me aside
Kick me in those curving lines
I will not die

There's a breeze to lull me here
The coral rough beneath my feet
There's a sea in this air I breathe
And the salt can heal these wounds
Salt can heal, salt can heal, salt can heal

This tide will not hurt me
This tide will not tire me

Fuel

If you don’t open up again, you will forget what’s inside.
If you don’t take a risk, the normalcy will hold tight.
And so I shed my skin. The tiger wants to be a child.
And the light falls in circles
And the wind blows before the thunderstorm
And I open my arms

I travel without hate. The destination is far away.
It’s not what happens then, that tells you where you have been
And so I ride along watching as others speed ahead
And the light falls in circles
And the wind blows before the thunderstorm
And I open my arms

Somewhere in this body lives
A younger version of myself
Running over stones and branches
Jumping in to the sea
Not just a touch, not just a word, not just a kiss that kindles this
Spirit needs fuel

Connected

She took the ring he gave her
And let her passions take flight
He led her in the clouds
And then she left it all behind
The crying and the doubt
There was no time there was no why
The moment shoots ahead
This cumulous has made it rise
And all the time she hated- hated racing into wire
Catapulting into unnecessary vagrant fire
Why don’t you fake it it’s not you
Make it say it it’s not true
Take a moment take this seed
It’s just a symbol of the tree

Inside it flows and goes around
Kindness abounds in your mind
This light is warm in your soul
Your feet are still connected to the ground

The fish can bypass her
The ice can change to summer
Fingers eyes and mouth
Curl up and wait it out
What if nothing is
And nothing lies in the wake
The cumulous is gray
The pressure presses into rain
And all the time she hated- hated racing into wire
Catapulting into unnecessary vagrant fire
Now it’s real now its true make it say that it is you
Take a moment take this seed and turn it into a seed

Inside it flows and goes around
Kindness abounds in your mind
This light is warm in your soul
Your feet are still connected to the ground

Winter

Winter (Fuyu):

yuki matte tebukuro wasureta
hana fuite
sarano butsu o haku
fuyu no koto o kangaeruto
kokoro ga nandaka atamaru
tosan no tebukuro ni irete

yuki no fukai toko e hashiridasu
nemuru shyojo ni tsumazukasare
koe ga kikoete tachiagarinasai
shikarishinakya
itsumademo sobaniwa irarenaiyo

itsukimeruno
jibun o aisuruyoni
itsukimeruno
subetega kawaranai uchini
shiroumatachi wa mada neteru
itsumademo soba ni itai
subetega kawateshimatemo

fuyugasatte
detekita otokonotachi
taiyomotomete kaodasu hanatachi
toki wa sugi
watashi wa imadani
ano yuki daruma no bashyo ni iru
kagami yo kagami oshiri wa doko ni
jibun shika mienaikeredo
shinjitsu motomete
suberitsuzukeru
toketeku koorino uene toosan

itsukimeruno
jibun o aisuruyoni
itsukimeruno
subetega kawaranai uchini
shiroumatachi wa mada neteru
itsumademo soba ni itai
subetega kawateshimatemo

shiragani nari takibi wa moe
takusan no yume tana no ueni
anata no hokori ni naritai te itta yo ne
so zutto omotteta

itsukimeruno
jibun o aisuruyoni
itsukimeruno
subetega kawaranai uchini
shiroumatachi wa satte itta
itsumademo soba ni itai
subetega kawateshimatemo

kawaranaide
shiroumatachiwa..

Lonely Star

Just a trail of shadow puppets
Fingers lace together
Your face in candlelight
Feather weight on my skin I remember

Your anger is poison
Disguised as medicine
You can’t heal this way
So tired from this much worn threshold
Free themselves
They’re drowned in a dried up crater
Free themselves
I’m sure you don’t mean to hate her
Free yourself

I was your Juliet
You were my lonely star
Some silly masquerade
We play from a far

Your anger is poison
Disguised as medicine
You can’t heal this way
So tired from this much worn threshold
Free themselves
They’re drowned in a dried up crater
Free themselves
I’m sure you don’t mean to hate her
Free yourself

Like

My skin is worn and torn
My shoes are in the grapevine
My sleeves are painted blue
From the inside

My eyes are round and wide
My form stretches by your side
What are these words for
It’s not my language anymore

I know I’m not what you wanted
I know I’m not that clean
I know I’m not what you hoped for
There’s more to me
Than you can see.

I just have to like myself
No false hope or doubt
You can’t make me into you
Why would you want to?

Your skin is old and worn
Your shoes are shined and clean
Your sleeves are pressed
From the inside

I wonder if you’re happy
I wonder do you feel complete?
Every time you look at me
Do you see what you cannot be?

I just have to like myself
No false hope or doubt
You can’t make me into you
Why would you want to?
I just have to like my life
No shame no regret
You can’t make it into yours
Why would you want to?

I am a Monkey

I am a monkey
You are a penguin
I am a lizard
You are a puppy

What is the human face
What does it mean a species or a race
I’m tired
So in disbelief
I’m almost numb

I want to meet you
I want to know you
I want to trust you
I want to love you

Why don’t we just love each other
‘ til we’re the same color
Mix ourselves into purity
Bathe together honestly

I want to meet you
I want to know you
I want to trust you
I want to love you

I suppose I could just stay here in my cave
Lonely but safe
But eventually
A hurricane, a stampede
We’ll be blinded by the seams of light
Breathless by the beauty

I want to meet you
I want to know you
I want to trust you
I want to love you

In Darkness

Close your eyes
Turn off the light
Don’t be shy
Clover and green
And I wish

Taste arouse
Taste arouse taste arouse

I would like to stay in this void
I don’t want to look back
Come closer
Come nearer
In this space it’s tapering in now
In this place of casualness
I’m becoming stronger

Guess you want me to leave now
If you want to
No I wish

The coldness sets in on my skin
And the warm lingers beside me

Stone Buddhas

Oh I walk up a mountain
Some say I am cunning
Some say I am wicked

I walk higher and higher
There are fewer
Who collect snow in my shadow

I only know
This path where I go
On the pine needles of gold

ALL LYRICS © LISA RAY,
EXCEPT "WINTER" © TORI AMOS,TRANSLATION BY LISA RAY

Lyrics - This Moment Is the Show

Sunray

Running
Laughing
I am I am
I am so happy
Happy happy happy
Here with you

The sunray and your smile
The sunray and your smile
Makes me full
Makes me full and makes me
Shake

Kick the ball across the
Kick the ball across the
Kick the ball across the green field

The voice in your eyes
Tells me something
I wish I had something to say
I have nothing to say
I have nothing

I know you know
I have I have
I know you know
I have I have
I know you know
I have to cry

Safe

I want to feel safe
I want to feel young again
To feel strong again
Magic closets and secret worlds
Hopscotch and orange crush sunsets
Take me, remind me
Away from here

Antakadadada dokosa shea sa shea dokosa

Everyone wants to be protected from their life
And from themselves, from themselves
Phones, cars, and buzzing lines
Suits, budgets, and public disclaimers
Gotta get there gotta go there gotta do this
Before they notice
Gotta listen gotta smile here
Wishing I was
Somewhere else

Yuuyake koyake no akatombo
Sono samishisa de doko ni iku no?

I want to feel safe
I want to feel young again
To feel strong again
She turns to smile at me
He waves just one last time
And I think of candy girls and butterflies
Flying free

Crushes and Rivers

Blush, nervous
Try to be calm
Try to seem indifferent, but seeming cold
Try to keep from spilling out-gushing pressure
Like a river that runs
In and out and through and through

Don't want to know
How you see me now because
Time is running and I'm just standing
Waiting here wishing how I can get past this noise
in my head

How do you talk casually to someone
Who is an intimate dream
How do you find a few lines for someone
Who is a poem
And how do you say "yeah, I'll see you later"
When you'd like to
Take him home
You are older, and I could be wiser
But I just want to
I just want to
I just want to know

Blush, nervous
Try to be calm
Try to seem indifferent, seeming cold
Try to keep from spilling out-gushing pressure
Like a river that runs in and out and
Out and in and out and
Through and through

Innocence Knows

We sound with our metal sheets
We play in the sand with our feet
Coloring outside the lines
There's more room here than you think

Overtaken he's got ghosts in his head
And he's ready to turn himself in
She thinks she's unloved
And she's cutting herself deeper
Just to feel anything
And they tell him he's not smart
Just because he likes taking tests for the atmosphere
And he watches the beetles come out year after year
I think he's a genius

We sound with our metal sheets
We listen to our hearts beat
You think you're jaded and
The world is made of glass
Well just remember innocence knows

He plays in the subway and he gets by
She laughs at her pain and she must cry at her jokes sometimes
And baby, you're more than your Nike shoes or Nintendo dreams

He thinks he should be like his father
One hundred years of honor
Well, you're more than honor

Watch the turtles swim by
Say hi to the butterflies
I think you're a genius
And I wish you some kindness from strangers
I wish you some kindness from strangers
And I wish you some kindness

You don't see

I feel the spaces
I feel time
Between patience and kindness
There's something missing here
One song , one poem, one phone call just to say
How precious, precious, and precious
You don't see into me you think you know me
So who am I?

Worrying who I am around you.
It's serious
Because we're not serious

I have ideals
It's not fair
Between my sweetness and my teacup
There's something missing here
One smile, one tear, one word that means something
You don't see into me, you think you know me
So who am I?

I am looking
I am weak
Between you and me
There's something missing here no strength
They're not even pretty
Give me a rescue squad rescue rescue rescue squad hey
You don't see into me you think you know me
So who am I?

The Tao Song

In this forgiving time
There's light and green
And the morning dew clears and washes the air
Capturing slowly the softness in your hand
And the tide comes and scatters our message in the sand

The landscape flows like milk
Wearing this wind is the finest silk
Follow lightly follow lightly
Echoes collide
And 10,000 things rise and hide

Younger than the messenger that circles the town
Only one bicycle to get around
The egret stands waiting in the water flow
Strong and calm in the undertow

The landscape flows like milk
Wearing this wind is the finest silk
Follow lightly follow lightly
Echoes collide
And 10,000 things rise and hide

With the sand in my hair and the wind in my ear
I am still lying here

Hold me mother of all things
Let me go and fall into the sea

This Vibrancy

This vibrancy might kill me
But we'll just have to see
This happiness might destroy me
But it wouldn't make me weak

I look out in the street
And see so many wrapped up in chains
Like fish that look for bait
Only to find that they've got
Hooks in their throats

This resiliency might break me
I'm a door without a key
This mellowness might drown me
But at least I'd be in
Bliss

I dare you to smile
I dare you to talk
Reach out to the sun
And stay with me here for a while

Try a little kindness
Find someone to love
Settle your anger and
Let it flow

Whatever is most dear to you
Don't ever let it go
Because life is just an interlude
And this moment is the show

This moment

The Lizard and the Turtle

I was walking down a crowded wave
And I thought I saw your black beret
But it wasn't you no just a shady man
With a pipe and a cane and a Japanese fan

Hey are you slidin' down?
With a lizard-timed crawl on volcanic sand
Are you divin' round?
With a million wind colors
With the swirlin cupped flowers
With a lemon that sours in your heart

I was sitting near a little pond
and I thought I saw your image yawn
but it wasn't you no just a sandy duck
tryin' to catch a big green bug

are you slidin down?
With a turtle-tailed curl around a fairie's thumb
Are you divin' round?
With a million wind colors
With the swirlin cupped flowers
With a lemon that sours in your heart

No you wouldn't find me with a lofty bee
No you wouldn't find me in the deep far sea
I got places to go and I got things to do
But I can't help missing you

Are you slidin' down?
With a lizard timed crawl on volcanic sand
Are you divin' round?
With a million wind colors
With the swirlin cupped flowers
With a lemon that sours in your
In your
In your heart

Fireflies

The fireflies are gone now
A storm has come and changed our sky
The clouds move across the blue
My favorite time of day
Far from
A late summer night

Oh we wear our masks well
Oh sitting underneath your tree
Smiling I'm mesmerized by you

You say that I only care because you're far away
The truth is I'd rather that you stay
I guess it's really just impossible anyway
There hasn't been time

We're so afraid to say what's on our minds
I don't know how or what we are
But don't be afraid to say anything
Please say anything

You say that I only care because you're far away
The truth is I'd rather that you stay
I guess it's really just impossible anyway
There hasn't been time for trust for truth for not
Being shy on the phone

Oh I am so shallow
just a sparkle and a hat
How can you fall in love like that

The fireflies are gone now

ALL LYRICS © LISA RAY