Tsukuribanashi (ツクリバナシ )

(Album: Strange Fiction - 2019)

[Romanized:]

Yeah, time to wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, yeah, time to wake up
3, 2, 1, let's go

Sit down and write it
Umaku kotobanidekinai
Nothing but a black colored pencil
Try to paint the sky
Wonder why, every time
Message miscommunicated
Start to end, play pretend
The feelings are reciprocated
Amai kotoba to hyōgen tsumaranai
Shinjitsu nashi de yume o ka oikake rarenai
Suffering inside while chasing someone else's scenery
Cause at the time that's where I wanted to be

Time was ticking by, and I got sick and tired
Of ostentatious phrases and flattery
Lost in impatience and bored with the fakeness
It may just be another case of finding awakeness (Time to wake up)
Fame is a cheap disguise
People we idolize
Idol lies, taking the focus off our own lives
Somewhere along the line, those fantasies ended
I quit seeing through those colored lenses
And realized

(Hey!)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
Convinced it's fine if only in my imagination
I forget how
But time, and time again I always wind up getting let down (Time to wake up)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
A fairy-tale life where I find out the place that I belong is wrong
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room
Just dreaming

This kind of story reads like fabricated romance
I got conceited exaggerating average moments
It's just my day-to-day life
Really the same as before
I'm just older and tired
Don't gotta take my word for it (take it back now!)
My days of no direction
Trajectory unknown me
Perpetuated fiction
When they told me how to be
Sketch a great adventure
Bring it to life on paper
And every character wonder
"Could I look for something greater?"
Made to be and paid to be
Sipping at a savory life
Make believe that I could leave it all behind
Mental misbehavory, just a touch of bravery
Run away another day
Break out of this mind

(Hey!)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
Convinced it's fine if only in my imagination
I forget how
But time, and time again I always wind up getting let down (Time to wake up)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
A fairy-tale life where I find out the place that I belong is wrong
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room
Just dreaming

Wake up, wake up, wake up, oh
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room

[Japanese:]

Yeah, time to wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, yeah, time to wake up
3, 2, 1, let's go

Sit down and write it
うまく言葉にできない
Nothing but a black colored pencil
Try to paint the sky
Wonder why, every time
Message miscommunicated
Start to end, play pretend
The feelings are reciprocated
甘い言葉と表現つまらない
真実なしで夢をか追いかけられない
Suffering inside while chasing someone else's scenery
Cause at the time that's where I wanted to be

Time was ticking by, and I got sick and tired
Of ostentatious phrases and flattery
Lost in impatience and bored with the fakeness
It may just be another case of finding awakeness (Time to wake up)
Fame is a cheap disguise
People we idolize
Idol lies, taking the focus off our own lives
Somewhere along the line, those fantasies ended
I quit seeing through those colored lenses
And realized

(Hey!)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
Convinced it's fine if only in my imagination
I forget how
But time, and time again I always wind up getting let down (Time to wake up)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
A fairy-tale life where I find out the place that I belong is wrong
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room
Just dreaming

This kind of story reads like fabricated romance
I got conceited exaggerating average moments
It's just my day-to-day life
Really the same as before
I'm just older and tired
Don't gotta take my word for it (take it back now!)
My days of no direction
Trajectory unknown me
Perpetuated fiction
When they told me how to be
Sketch a great adventure
Bring it to life on paper
And every character wonder
"Could I look for something greater?"
Made to be and paid to be
Sipping at a savory life
Make believe that I could leave it all behind
Mental misbehavory, just a touch of bravery
Run away another day
Break out of this mind

(Hey!)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
Convinced it's fine if only in my imagination
I forget how
But time, and time again I always wind up getting let down (Time to wake up)
If I was like halfway decent
I think I'd realize the right advice I need is
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
'Cause life has no ideal pieces
A fairy-tale life where I find out the place that I belong is wrong
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room
Just dreaming

Wake up, wake up, wake up, oh
Reality, it comes down to me in an isolated room