Song lyrics in English by Joel Sattler for the Japanese rock band MUCC

These are mostly NOT translations, but are new versions.

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KOMOREBI by MUCC, new words by Joel Sattler

New title: “The Great Escape”

You were such a newbie on the street

Till you got it all ripped off by a tool

Now walk with a dagger in your meat

And nobody can play you for a fool

Me, I thought I could be a friend to Eddie

But I didn’t know he could be so hard

Now I have to give up everything I own

Just to get back to where I had to start

If we can get each other’s backs, love

Then we can both find a way of escaping

Don’t tell me that there really is no hope

We’ll be free someday

I will shoot my way out of this awful place

If you come too then we can get away

I will cut a passage through all the blood and gut

O’er the wall another day

I swear to you we won’t give up without a fight 

There’s a light down at the end of the night

All it takes is just the will to get up a head of steam and go

Come with me there is a way I know

You have got the courage of a rat

Face-to-face in the corner with a cat

If they’re not going to let us out the door

We are not going down without a war

You know I‘d die for you!

Now’s the time to bet it all on just one last single chance

Time to make it through our own deliverance

We are stronger when together and we are so much more

Show them what freedom is for

And if we jump we might escape before they even can tell

Tell the slavers that they can all go to Hell

It’s you and me against the world with nothing but our own hearts

They can’t break our souls apart

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Original lyrics in Romanji:

Yagate ame wa yami

kigitachi ga sawagi dasu
Machikirezu nakidashita

ki no hayai shoka no semi

Miagereba kumo hitotsu nai,

dokodemo takai sora
Yakekogeta asufaruto

fumishime aruiteiku

Itsuka wasureteshimau sa,

dareka no omokage nante
Ima wa mune no oku ni sotto

shimaikonde

Aoki ano natsu no omoide

surihetta mama no kutsu de
Gamusharani hashiri tsuzuketeta

asu wo yume mite

Dareka no tame ni ikiru koto nante

dekiyashinakatta
Totsuzen no yuudachi wa wasurero to

boku ni kakarikaketa

Yasashii omoidesa

arekara sandome no natsu
Ano koro wa mienakatta,

hikari no naka e mukate

Aruiteyuku

Aoku azayakana omokage

wo tsuyoku nigirishimete
Ima wa mayowazu susunde yukeru

sonna ki ga suru

Ano hi to kawaranu komorebi ga sukoshi

mabushiku mie hajimete
Kokokara mata hajimatteyukunda
Asu e

mukate

My version is based on a recording by Mucc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXAswMDGkkM

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YUUBENI by MUCC by Miya/Satochi, new lyrics in English by Joel Sattler

New title: “I Will Be There”

When you were only seventeen

You met a bad boy on the scene

He took your hand and said come run with me

and all that’s left behind you was a scream

His motorcycle was a blast

One hundred K was not too fast

The Swat Team just could not catch up with you

But in your mind you knew it couldn’t last

Girl

You must be quite insane

To think that he

Is who you’re looking for

He’s no good for you

And I’ve been waiting here for you all of my life

I want you to come with me

He doesn’t understand how perfect you would be

But now I know it

You see he tried

To build you up

So he could try again to bring you down

But you are special

Cause I know you are the one

You need someone

Who can bring out the best in you

To be your hero 

And if you

Are looking for a ride up to the sky

I would do all

To make it all come true

Don’t ever - ever say you lost hope

Never gonna say that your life is just another big joke

Never never never gonna come down to your end rope

Make it if we try!

You see now

I’ll always be there

if you fall 

Now’s the time to make your move

Now’s the time you have got nothing left to prove 

Just seize the moment

I’ll be waiting there for you

To help you up to touch the moon

I’ll be your rocket ship

I want you to fly with me

There’s no telling just how high up we can be

There is no limit girl

I’ll be standing out your door

I’m the man you’re looking for

Just open up and see 

I will be there

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Original lyrics in Romaji:

yuu no namikimichi awaku furitsumori
yasashiku mai odoru koushoku no yukigeshiki
te o tsunagi yorisotte arui te ku roufuufu
sukunakutomo kyou dake ha sekai ha kagayai teru

nee boku ha kimi no namida ha nugue nai kedo
ima, koko ni aru koto ga imi da to omou yo

anata no tame ni
taisetsu na dareka no tame bokutachi ha
iki te iru honno wazuka zutsu sasae te sasae rare te
chiri yuku sakura sono kasuka na monogatari ga utsushidasu

kyou toiu kagayakeru kioku shin ni yakitsuke te
nan do mo shime te, demo sukoshi demo mae o muka nakya ike nai tte
tsukuriwarai de mo mata shini taku naru hodo nai te
sonna kuri kaesu mainichi o

bokutachi dake no jibun dake no sono kokyuu de iki te yuku
sorezore no hohaba, sorezore no egao, nakigao de
mai chiru hana ha yuugure no namikimichi o akaku some ta
saa mina ni tsuduke jikan ha tomara nai kimi dake no ayumi de

My version is based on a recording by MUCC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnr5nNf_eh8

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THE BALLAD OF THE GOLDEN CITY song lyrics/Words by Joel Sattler 3^rd draft

[formerly THE BALLAD OF EL DORADO]

To the tune of OYOGE! TAIYAKI-KUN written by Hiroo Takada

-based on the version performed by MUCC

There’s a legend in the West, a story often told
of a golden mountain hidden north of Mexico

And the way to El Dorado none will ever know

The treasure trove of Montezuma and the City of Gold

The Aztec kings once offered prayers to the pagan gods
But then Cortez and all his crew set foot upon the coast.
And when they came ashore the Spanish Conquest had begun.
But now the waves are haunted and the water’s full of ghosts

The gods demanded sacrifice allow the Sun to rise

Each day the priests would pick a warrior to give his life

Up on the Holy Pyramid they’d split a man apart

And cut into his chest and offer up the Sun a heart

Cortez arrived right on the birthday of their morning star

He swore he brought the light of Jesus but his soul was dark

Perhaps Cortez was blameless, maybe so and maybe not
But once the slaughter rose it was impossible to stop
Wars of Whites and Wars Unite and Wars for the Sake of War
But none have been more bloody than those of Conquistadors

In the name of Brotherhood, Cortez stole all he could
First, atop the Pyramid he built a church of wood
Then the Spaniards massacred the Dancers as they danced
So began the butchery, they never ever had a chance

They thought he was Quetzalcoatl turning from the shore

But he only wanted gold and more and more and more

There’s places in the desert where the Indians never go
The sand rolls like an ocean, not a living thing can grow
and anyone who knew the path has perished long ago

But still there’ll always be someone to search for the City of Gold

Three riders from Mojave claimed that they had found the map
One said "I had a family but something in me snapped"
One said "We can't give up the search now that we're on the track"
And said one "I’ve got a feeling that we won't be coming back"

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Original lyrics in Romaji:

mainichi mainichi bokura wa teppan no
ue de yakarete iya ni nacchau yo
aru asa boku wa mise no ojisan to
kenka shite umi ni nigekonda no sa

hajimete oyoida umi no soko
tottemo kimochi ga ii monda
onaka no ANKO ga omoi kedo
umi wa hiroi ze kokoro ga hazumu
momoiro SANGO ga te wo futte
boku no oyogi wo nagameteita yo

mainichi mainichi tanoshii koto bakari
nanpasen ga boku no sumikasa
tokidoki SAME ni ijimerareru kedo
sonna tokya sou sa nigeru no sa

ichinichi oyogeba HARAPEKO sa
medama mo KURUKURU mawacchau
tama ni wa EBI de mo kuwanakerya
shiomizu bakari ja fuyakete shimau
iwaba no kage kara kuitsukeba
sore wa chiisa na tsuribari datta

donna ni donna ni mogaitemo
HARI ga odo kara torenai yo
hamabe de mishiranu ojisan ga
boku wo tsurioge bikkuri shiteta

yappari boku wa TAIYAKI sa
sukoshi kogearu TAIYAKI sa
ojisan tsuba wo nomikonde
boku wo umaso ni tabeta no sa

My version is based on a recording by MUCC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6LMwpPf9EQ

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