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What have I come here for, left my hometown. I want to live while singing my songs with all my heart in front of lots of people.

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Lotus Root Pattern

I go to Kichijoji station to go shopping, I'm dreaming about living together,
I want bowls with lotus root patterns, so I take notice of them.
I go to Shimo-kitazawa for my part-time job, rather than hesitating when I could quit, I mastered my job skills fairly well, because I worked without excuses.
In my seventh year since coming up to Tokyo, I stop because someone calls me, A friend who I got to know in Osaka gets off the same train.
What have I come here for, left my hometown,
I've never forgotten it, but I'm afraid to remember it.
I go to Shibuya to perform today. This is the first performance of the year, There is only a small audience, it makes me come to my senses.
Please keep cool and look around, you may actually be mortified,
You are offended, sulky and run away because you don't have confidence and are scared about things. I want to live while singing my songs with all my heart in front of lots of people,
I want to sing loudly to my heart's content in front of lots of people.
I go to Kichijoji station to go shopping, I was dreaming about living together, The bowls with lotus root patterns are sold out, they have disappeared.


蓮根模様 Renkon moyou

吉祥寺駅までお買い物 二人暮らしを夢見てる
蓮根模様のどんぶりが 欲しくて目を付けている

下北沢までアルバイト 何時辞められるかと迷うより
言い訳を止めて働けば そこそこ身についてきた

上京してから 7 年目 名前呼ばれて立ち止まる
大阪時代の友達が同じ電車降りてきた

あぁ私は何のために 故郷を離れて来たのだろう
忘れた訳じゃないけれど 思い出すのが辛かった

渋谷へ向かう今日はライブ 今年最初の歌い初め
全然人が入らなくて 目が醒めた思いがした

ねぇ落ち着いて見てごらん あなた本当は悔しいんでしょう
怒って拗ねて逃げるのは 自信がなくて怖いから

大勢の前で思い切り 唄を歌って生きてみたい
大勢が見てる前で思い切り 大きな声で歌いたい

吉祥寺駅までお買い物 二人暮らしを夢見てた
蓮根模様のどんぶりは 売り切れてなくなってた

2014©Tomoko SHIMASAKI

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from Make Miracles / め​い​く​み​ら​く​る (Hi​-​Res 24bit48kHz), released November 28, 2016
words and music by Tomoko SHIMASAKI
vocal, piano, by Tomoko SHIMASAKI

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