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spiral staircase

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1.
you come along with the lie wake up at the ocean to me it’s nothing you come along hand in hand if I could fall from here me and you go someday we’re all gone but story never ends what have I lost? what have I found here? call out your name recall your smile where are you now?
2.
staying with something new made me uncomfortable always catching up with you made me sick or injured then I would like to say good bye my friend the door is closed and shut even if you find right answer all kinds of my thoughts stroll around my head so I get through the day I’m ready for leaving here but I don’t know why just like an insane ideal, torture us like always even if we find right door then I would like to say good bye my friend the door is closed and shut even if you find right answer just like an insane ideal, torture us like always even if we find right door
3.
we are weak, unreliable and fragile existence little scratch, small crack so, give me some time so, give me some time hollow eyes, vacant heart don’t let them disturb you hollow eyes, vacant heart don’t let them disturb you we are weak, unreliable and fragile existence breaking while healing I want to stop thinking little pain, abandoned dream I don’t want to see you cry I don’t want to see you cry so confused and exhausted that’s why I want to sing so confused and exhausted that’s why I have to sing little pain, abandoned dream I don’t want to see you cry I don’t want to see you cry I don’t want to see you cry I don’t want to see you cry
4.
暗い道 03:40
青い太陽 生まれたばかりの記憶を辿れば 虚しく一人で笑う 何故か遠く感じる 追い越して振り向くと 夜明け前の暗い道ふと思い出して こんな日々もいつかは 懐かしく思える いつかは
5.
grey hour 01:37
6.
uneasy sigh 03:19
how do I look in your eyes? it might be wrong or right I don’t care where are you from and where are you going? all the way back to your past uneasy sigh unconsciously spread delighted face, lively eyes it might be a lie or true I don’t care where are we from and where are we going? all the way back to our past unsettled mind corrode our days slowly uneasy sigh unconsciously spread unsettled mind corrode our days slowly
7.
lonesome way 04:03
I still have fun for you pretending like that I know it’s wasting my time again there is no way out there is no way am I good enough? innocent and clean but take a look you’ll see my hollow eyes come to our side waiting here all time just let me hear the voices in my head you’re the one who’s scared I know you’re the one who can’t forgive, my friend you cannot stay that way lonesome way to home lonesome way to home you walk alone it’s good enough to me I still have fun for you pretending like that I know it’s wasting my time again there is no way out there is no way…
8.
diciembre 01:33
9.
at last, I arrived here place like abandoned port I came all the way from a great distance open the door of the white lighthouse-like building and go down the stairs keep going down you’ll be able to see, you might be able to see your future self there’s such a story I tried to open the door but there were so many umbrellas hanging on the handle that I couldn’t turn the knob as I went down the stairs, I saw a girl talking to her future self I really saw it going down the spiral staircase going down the spiral staircase going down the spiral staircase

about

recorded in July 2014 - December 2023

First folk album in two years.

includes bonus track

The inspiration behind making this album was something that happened in a dream.
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There was a legend that if you enter an abandoned lighthouse-like building and go down the stairs, you can meet your future self, so I decided to go there as well.
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I always had an image in my mind of going down a large spiral staircase, and we worked hard to create that atmosphere.

We hope you like this album!

music videos

just like an insane ideal
youtu.be/VBOVTK_xm04?si=DcclqkrcAc48GvRi

breaking while healing
youtu.be/EytXAbhtxfg?si=BBP8CQJha2lx2KV-

lonesome way
youtu.be/REdTzTJjZs8?si=E4RFKiN4FMsXpo3f

spiral staircase
youtu.be/kiUZ_AtVXBI?si=1xbmqi676xVpJHrz

credits

released February 9, 2024

a: acoustic guitar, piano, cello, glockenspiel, pianica,
bandurria, clavinet, taishogoto, percussions, vocal, chorus
j: drums, percussions, electric guitar, electric bass, piano bass, piano, bandurria

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drop is a Japanese duo, formed in 2001 Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The members are J (songwriter, guitar, bass, drum, keyboards and programming) and A (songwriter, vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and cello). Songs usually recorded at home studio using old instruments like mellotron, clavinet, solina, jupiter-8. ... more

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