It wouldn't be a Toby Jackson album without some Japan-fawning.
lyrics
Perhaps I’m not meant for you, foreign lashed tongue of the East,
You in your pink display; I in my English ways,
But whisper my name Japan; I’m no longer young or naïve,
Everything’s beautiful and I never want to leave,
Good morning Matsue, it’s been so long I say,
I can’t taste your waters my friend, but I can hear them play.
So let me just tell you that I’ve never been so ecstatic,
You’re blissful, you’re perfect, you’re joyous incarnate.
Is this the land that I was meant to be born into?
Cut me like sugar cubes, sprinkle me into you.
For you are the country I’ll marry myself to,
You are my everything; you are my rebirth.
I am in love with the saviour of all humankind,
I am in love with the damned of the throngs and the rows of the mind.
I am in love with myself and with you and with the whole human life,
But only surrounded by blossoms in spring can I truly come alive.
So give me the means and I’ll captivate myself to the grave.
Calm me with sedatives or fire me up like the braves.
Japan, you’re my everything, and I need you to embrace me,
And I wish that you’d see that I’m finally at home, I’m finally at home.
I’m finally at home; I’m finally at home…
Love is no obstacle, love is purely temptation,
Love is fulfilment of everything you can’t explain’s right,
Love is attending the ceremony of completion,
You are my love and I never want to leave.
Leave your temples and mountains impressive and meek,
Or the strange shining customs that linger underneath,
Or the business of life and metropolises wide,
Be it Kobe or Kochi, Sendai, Sakai.
And I’m longing to join you, to let myself breathe,
I know that I’m happy and I know I believe,
That everything’s beautiful and I never want to leave,
I never want to leave you.
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