Name: Tokyo(bay)
Duration: P00H03M31S
Description: This song is about my desire to move on, wanderlust. About leaving your friends, your family, your pain, and your past and moving onto somewhere, and why.

Tokyo(bay)

from You're (Not) Alone by Ikari

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This song is about my desire to move on, wanderlust. About leaving your friends, your family, your pain, and your past and moving onto somewhere, and why.

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i wrote this down
when I left this town
i was in tokyo,
listening to the sound
of the ships coming in and out
of the harbour
two years ago

it was late december
almost christmas then
and I was waiting for
the new year to begin
i had to put some distance
between me and you

I'm often asked
what am I doing here
what am I running from
what it is that I fear
and I say, I am not quite sure
I don't really know
why
I am not quite sure
what my problem is

its just that
I have never really had a place
where I felt safe
where I felt at home
and it scares me to think
what my future will bring
if I keep on like this
am I going to die alone?

and who knows, how long
that will take
I debate the pain
of everyday
against the pain
of making it
all go away

before I left
I heard you speak
in tones of regret
of quiet defeat
oh how our love
had failed to flourish
of how it grew
diseased

so I left that town
went to tokyo
to bathe in the sound
of ships coming in and out
of the harbour
I'm sorry but
I couldn't face you dear
I couldn't stand to see
I didn't want to hear
you weren't in love with me
what am I running from
what am I doing here
what am I doing here
what am I doing here

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from You're (Not) Alone, released July 25, 2012

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Ikari Richmond, Virginia

Post-Hardcore from Richmond Virginia. God is in his heaven, all is right with the world. We strive for instrumentality.

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