The sun has just arisen

The snow is still falling

I get up from my eggshell room

Make myself some cereal

And I use the whole bag

Say what you will, I’ve got nothing to prove

Put on a dress shirt and pants

And yet still I’m out dressed

By the white dog at the foot of my stairs

And as I head up the mountain

I think of vending machines

Selling cold beer, hot meals and underwear

At Aomori Spring we wear

Fine suits and slippers

Could you kindly please Keep your ski boots by the door

We’ve got sake at the bar

And yukatas in the laundry

Sorry if this all sounds new

And if you head down the road

You’ll find a place you can gamble

But it’s awfully loud and the lights make things hard to see

And instead of playing blackjack

You’re popping rain bow bubbles

They keep flashing at you from an LED screen

So hop on a lift and hear the

jPop-a-rumble

See kids whip by dressed like hello kitty

But please don’t end your day till you’ve

cracked into those slippers

It’s silly but it’s advice you have to heed

At Aomori Spring we wear

Fine suits and slippers

Could you kindly please keep your ski boots by the door

I’ll meet you in the lobby

Looking sharp, How could I not be

Ironed shirt, but I won’t be wearing dress shoes

Walk around like I’m in the clouds

Aomori Spring

Take my dirty shoes

Cuz they have no use

I’m got my suits

I’ll wear your slippers

Aomori Spring

You say hello

But all I hear is strange sounds

New noises

So hard to decipher

Got me pacing around

I just want to talk to you

Wanna tell you everything that’s been going on in my mind

But every time I open my big dumb mouth

Well, the wrong words come out

It’s just me and my foreign tongue

I don’t know how to get a new one

So I play the music

Let’s have some fun

It’s just me and my foreign tongue

And all my thoughts are just babbles

Everything around me just feels like white noise

Words are just words

Coming at me and they’re leaving me tongue-tied

It’s just me and my foreign tongue

I don’t know how to get a new one

So I play the music

Let’s have some fun

It’s just me and my foreign tongue

You said something

I didn’t understand

Now I’m waiting doing nothing

This wasn’t part of the plan

And I’m still here

Don’t you remember my face

I saw you just this morning

Then I stepped out the door and into space

Room 404

Empty corridors

Why am I here?

What’s all this for?

Where do we go?

I don’t want to start no war

404

404

You may be king of the castle

I’ve got my 4 star cell

I don’t wanna be a hassle

If you need me just ring the bell

Cause I’m still here

Don’t you remember my face

I saw you just this morning

Then I stepped out the door and into space

Room 404

Empty corridors

Lost power tools

On the carpeted floor

Where do we go?

Nothing never more

404

404

Can’t you see there’s nothing to be done

Hop in through the portal

Stare at snow reflected sun

Time slows down

Just say the magic words

Singing 404 won’t you take the dull away?

Wind licks my face,

It lingers in my ears,

My moped spits a storm,

Cuts through pavement with it’s gears

The high arc in the back,

It’s full of power,

Inside, lazy energy hangs from the air,

Am I melting,

No I think I’ll be just fine,

Melting’s for watery witches,

And their dissolvable stitches in the Onsen

Baths of different stages of life,

Come out of the ground,

Join them and rejoin my roots,

To that swollen sound

Is this working,

Can’t the steam clean out my mind,

When I stand, my head’s in the clouds

Eyes dark as space,

Ears blacked out,

Onsen

Wheels scurry up a sound,

Metal buried in the ground

Lending guidance

Tumbling towers can never contain their excitement

Follow their way

I’ll keep things going

Until you come back down

The crows are on the other side of town

The sunny side of town

Come meet me down in Shinjuku station

The sudden sound of the night’s so loud

And the sake in the cracked glass reflects the ceiling fan

Tainted windows adorn the derelict caravan

Let’s follow their way

And wander round wanderlust crowd

It’s rowdy but it’s one  

Until you come back down

The crows are on the other side of town

Keep staring at my hands

Can’t help but shake

When you’re drifting off your path

No ground to offer up a break

But I’ve got to get on going

Avoid the rising sun

One foot and then the other

It’s hard to walk when you’d rather run

And if you’ll take me through the air

Across some land and through the sea

From the snow into the sun

There’s no place that I’d rather be

And if I close my eyes, hold my breath and count to 3

There’s a great big garden looking back at me

I wish it were that easy

…

Singapore,

Trees rise from the ocean floor

Are they real or are they from the store?

It’s all the same

On a man-made shore,

Far away from 404,

There’s a guy on a hoverboard

Must be an island thing

Singapore,

Feel the AC coming through the door

The hottest winters in the whole wide world

’til I get on that plane

…

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, sing about Singapore, meet me there, oh yeah

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, sing about Singapore, meet me there, oh yeah

Karaoke,

Could you play me another song

Could you make it catchy?

And nice and loud so I can sing along

Sometimes it feels like I’m just running in circles,

And right now I can’t walk straight

But I can still stand, got a bottle and a mic in each hand

And every song that comes on is my favorite band

And I don’t even know all the words

Doo doo doo

Karaoke,

Could you take me to another place?

My throat is scratchy

And right now I can’t feel my face

Play me a new one

Dear Karaoke,

I come to you as a drunken hurricane,

You are the eye of my storm,

The flickering lantern in a dark and smelly room,

Most of your songs are in strange languages that I can never even hope to understand

But I hold true to you anyway

All of my friends that I came in with are either gone or asleep

But not me

I’ve already gone through your list of red hot chili peppers songs like 40 times

But I’ll go through it 40 more,

And one day I’ll get that high score

Karaoke,

Could you play me just another song

My minds been racing,

I’ve been thinking of you all day long

You’re my Karaoke

Could you carry me, Karaoke

And I care for you, Karaoke

Karaoke