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194A「Name Tag Talk」

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The break is up to whoever passes it on, I’ll say it on my own responsibility, This is fine, Rejoice, The first cut keeps the mistake inside and you drag the discomfort until you die, I wrote it in hiragana to leave room, Name Tag Talk, Make the subject clear, Tag the audience and it separates from black, Space remains after you stop, Explain everything and the distance of “oh, it’s a song” disappears, Even though it arrives through melody and situation, School is where you go to fall in love, If a kid who stays home hears it and wants to go, that’s enough, Say it straight and it becomes pressure, That’s why it’s a song, Better clear than a misunderstanding that turns into an incident or a dulling, But decide how far to make explicit and where to stop, Don’t compare me and not-me, Against Ito, Against Imagine, That comparison creates the sway, Kids are thinking inside that sway, It’s the singer’s job, Even if you declare you’re speaking for the lyricist, it still holds, Tick, Tock
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[Intro - Spoken, Curious] Who decides Where the words divide? Is it the one Who speaks them? Or the one Who hears them? [Verse 1] I'll say it clearly In my own name The result is All right Everything Is okay Move the boundary Just one letter And suddenly The meaning changes Two people believing In different divisions Carry that strange feeling Through their lives Hiragana leaves The letters flowing Room between meanings Room to decide [Pre-Chorus] Who said it? Who heard it? Whose idea? Whose words? Name Tag Talk Just make the speaker Crystal clear Put a name tag On the audience And make your own thoughts Clear to yourself [Chorus - Open, Melodic] Make the speaker clear Let the meaning be free You don't have to Explain everything The moment you realize A song is beautiful It stays inside your heart And the space You leave behind matters Riding on a melody Changing the scenery The words drift down Into somebody's world Not to tell them What to think But to share A place for thinking [Verse 2] We go to school To fall in love I turned those words Into a song If a child Who can't go to school Happened to hear it What would they think? If I said directly You should go to school It might feel Like an order But put those same words Inside a song And I don't have to decide How they'll receive them That's why I write lyrics That's why I borrow the power of music [Pre-Chorus 2] Assumptions Turn into misunderstandings Someone else's words Start walking on their own When the subject disappears Responsibility disappears Before you notice It's a different story So listen carefully Even to all of that And when the listening ends Ask your own heart What it thinks [Bridge - Reflective, Building] How much should I say? Where should I stop? Make it clear And leave some space Similar But not the same Make it clear Who said the words But how you take them Is up to you Searching for boundaries Like using an app Finding where One meaning ends And another begins [Final Chorus - Expansive, Liberating] I won't compare myself To anyone but me "Thread" Or "Imagine" No need to search For the greatest song No need to search For the perfect answer Comparing someone else's song To mine means nothing Different people Different moments Different lives Different words And children Inside that uncertainty Are learning To think for themselves Training their minds With every question Make the speaker clear Let the meaning be free The space that remains When the words fall silent Is quietly waiting For them to discover What they think [Outro - Light, Playful, Spoken] A singer's job Is to speak for the songwriter You can say it Just like that And the song Still works As long as we know Whose words they are We don't have to decide What comes after Heh heh heh... Tick tock Tap tap Come on! Let's make some noise!