Yobanashi Deceive
Jin
Lyrics: Jin
Composition: Jin
Arrangement: Jin
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A bebop-like sense of floating; the night begins to scatter and reflect the light
Flashing to a two-beat rhythm—is it okay to vent a little?
“Hey, let’s have a chat. It’s a stupid, self-destructive sort of thing,
but I just can’t keep it in anymore. How about I tell you a story?”
“So, let’s talk a bit. About the extraordinary, peculiar parts of me—
the things I’ve been agonizing over while pretending to be ordinary.”
“One day—it feels like ten years ago now—I heard the voice of a ‘monster,’
and it swallowed my heart, telling me, ‘Keep on lying.'”
“Ever since then, I’ve been a liar;
there’s nothing and no one I can’t deceive.
I’ve ended up becoming a ‘monster’ myself…
…Ah, I’m sorry! Don’t cry! It was all just a tall tale, you know?”
“Oh, my dirty!” “What a pathetic sight!”
I try to play it off—after all,
Isn’t this true self of mine a bit unsettling?
Faking it, looking away, piling lie upon lie…
Once again today, I idly sneer at it all.
To the girl who seems to hate the night—that bebop-like night, fading away—
To the youth who seems on the verge of tears—hating lies—
Yes, the same cheap “ideals” were programmed into us both;
Ever since that moment—since the day my heart was swallowed whole—I realized:
“Even if my ideals were to simply come true,
I couldn’t survive in this world all alone.”
“Is that a lie, too?”
“No, no—that’s my honest truth.”
My mind, on the verge of collapse, is filling up with “No.”
“Oh, my dirty! Listen more!”
To my heart, my selfishness, these lies, and the real me.
I said, “I’m lonely,”
Yet I remain unchanged.
I’m constantly exasperated—almost to the point of a smirk.
“Oh, my dirty! I hate it all now!”
Come on, let me hear it—
Is there no saving someone like me—
Someone so pathetic it’s laughable?
You say, “It’s no problem,”
And you remain unchanged.
“Ah, I messed up.”
Once again, I’m sinking deep into this unsettling self of mine.
