[Intro — solitary koto notes, distant fox cries, low electronic pulse] [Female Lead Vocal, whispering] Nine shadows on the snow… [Male Baritone, distant] And which one is yours? [Verse 1] [Female Lead Vocal] I wear a face I borrowed yesterday [Female Lead Vocal] Beneath the moon, it fits me well [Male Baritone] You change your skin to make them stay [Male Baritone] But who is hiding underneath the spell? [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails to trick the night [Female Lead Vocal] Nine stories to explain my name [Male Baritone] You multiplied your ways to hide [Male Baritone] But every exit looks the same [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] Look at me — am I real? [Male Baritone] You’re real whenever I believe [Female Lead Vocal] What if my reflection can reveal [Male Baritone] There’s no one underneath the sleeve? [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails, zero self [Male Baritone] Nine roads, no king [Female Lead Vocal] I dance on the edge of your gaze [Male Baritone] You chase me, but you’re always late [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails beneath a blood-red moon [Male Baritone] One shadow when the world moves [Female Lead Vocal] If I disappear inside your arms [Male Baritone] Who were you holding all along? [Instrumental Interlude — koto plays a playful motif that twists into a tense, distorted-guitar chase] [Verse 2] [Female Lead Vocal] I’m the girl with the gentle smile [Female Lead Vocal] The fox beneath the skin of day [Male Baritone] I sell the truth with a little guile [Male Baritone] Paint the empty room as a place to stay [Female Lead Vocal] Every mirror shows another me [Female Lead Vocal] Every dream reveals another door [Male Baritone] You’ve played the role so faithfully [Male Baritone] Even the mask believes it’s more [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] Tell me which face came first [Male Baritone] The one you’ve never known [Female Lead Vocal] Tell me who must be released [Male Baritone] The one who was never owned [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails, zero self [Male Baritone] Nine roads, no king [Female Lead Vocal] I dance on the edge of your gaze [Male Baritone] You chase me, but you’re always late [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails beneath a blood-red moon [Male Baritone] One shadow when the world moves [Female Lead Vocal] If I disappear inside your arms [Male Baritone] Who were you holding all along? [Bridge — beat drops; koto alone, slow and intimate] [Female Lead Vocal, almost laughing] I stole your name inside a dream [Male Baritone, calm] I can’t recall the name I had [Female Lead Vocal] I took your heart before the dawn [Male Baritone] It was already in your hand [Build — koto becomes faster, drums and bass return, guitar answers each phrase] [Female Lead Vocal] Run, my love, chase the image [Male Baritone] Run, my beauty, chase yourself [Female Lead Vocal] Every lie becomes a passage [Male Baritone] Every passage leads somewhere else [Final Chorus — fierce, seductive, full band] [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails, zero self [Male Baritone] Nine faces, no king [Female Lead Vocal] I dance on the edge of your gaze [Male Baritone] You see the fox, not its escape [Female Lead Vocal] Nine tails beneath a blood-red moon [Male Baritone] The world falls still, the night looks through [Female Lead Vocal] I take away the final mask [Male Baritone] No one is there — yet the night looks back [Outro — one koto phrase repeats with a missing note each time] [Female Lead Vocal, whisper] Did you recognize me? [Male Baritone, whisper] Who was there to recognize?
