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ウ​サ​ギ​の​都​市 (Usagi No Toshi - City Of Rabbits)

from ウ​サ​ギ​の​都​市 (Usagi No Toshi / City Of Rabbits) by Don Paris Schlotman

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First track of the new decade: a 日本語 rock version of "City of Rabbits" planned for an upcoming album.

I was studying Japanese and randomly came across the word for "rabbit hutch" in the dictionary while looking up something else, and in the footnotes, it said the term ("usagi-go-ya") was used to describe crowded city living in a 1980s official document.

Thank you.

新十年の初曲です。

意味の話は面白い。辞書で新しい言葉を調べながら、「ウサギ小屋」と言葉を行き当たりばったり見つけて、の脚注には、８０年代の市勢調査で「ウサギ小屋」と言葉が、過密な都市で生活に関する叙すると読んだ。このおかげで、この歌が「うさぎの都市」と言います。

よろしくお願いします。
(English vocal version to come also)

lyrics

地下で生まれて
ウサギの都市で
ドアが叩かれたら
音を立てないで｜ないで｜ないで
大捕物いつも
ウサギの都市で
これを見つけ出して
堪忍袋の緒が｜ 切れた｜ 切れた

ウサギの心臓を
制御が難しいよ
誰もこれを突き刺し｜掴み｜掴み｜穴 から引き抜きたがる

大潮の満ち干
ウサギの心臓に　
掛け鉛錘が振り
魂に脈し |　叩く |　叩く
昼夜兼行し
ウサギの都市で
こんな崇高な感じ
もうだけ堪えれない｜ないよ｜ないよ

ウサギの心臓を
制御が難しいよ
誰もそれを突き刺し ｜掴み｜掴み｜穴から引き抜きたがる

地下で生まれて
ウサギの都市で
ドアが叩かれたら
音を立てないで ｜ないで｜ないで

下り訪ねたら
ウサギの都市で　
これを見つけ出して
堪忍袋の緒が切れた｜切れた｜切れた

ウサギの心臓を
制御が難しいよ
誰もこれを突き刺し｜掴み｜掴み｜穴 から引き抜きたがる

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Born underground
In a city of rabbits
And don't make a sound
When they knock on the door - oh oh, oh oh
There’s always a shakedown
In the city of rabbits
This is what I found
Can't take it no more. No more! No more!

The heart of a rabbit
So hard to control
They just want to stab it, grab it... grab it...
Pull you out of your hole

The ebb of the springtide
In the heart of a rabbit
The sway of the plumbline
Beats a pulse in your soul. Oh oh, oh oh!
All day into night time
In this city of rabbits
A feeling so sublime
We can’t take it no more. No more! No more!

The heart of a rabbit
So hard to control
They just wanna stab it, grab it... grab it....
Pull you out of your hole

I was born underground
In this city of rabbits
And we don't make a sound
When there's a knock on the door - oh oh, oh oh!
So if you’re ever comin’ down
To the city of rabbits
Don't forget what I've found
We can't take it no more. No more! No more!

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from ウ​サ​ギ​の​都​市 (Usagi No Toshi / City Of Rabbits), track released January 4, 2020
©2020 Don Paris Schlotman/Erroebot Music

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Don Paris Schlotman Brooklyn, New York

Don Paris Schlotman is a Brooklyn-based solo musician.

The seventh son of a lightning bolt and a mountain lion. Plays music the way some people fall over. His artificial left eye can see 4 seconds into the future.

Past:
bass in neo-noir band Toshio; bass/synth in Brian Bonz & The Major Crimes; guitar and vocals in Dolphins Don't Love; bass and vocals in The Sky Captains of Industry; more ... more

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