Track 3 · Lyricsトラック 3・歌詞

I Don't Want It

いらない

A promotion arrives as the reward the narrator is supposed to want, but the corner office looks like a cage with better furniture.欲しいはずの報酬として昇進を差し出されても、その角部屋は、家具だけが立派になった檻にしか見えない。

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Nobody prepares you for the moment a promotion feels less like success than a warning.

In I Don't Want It, the corner office is a cage with better furniture. The title, raise, and higher floor come attached to vanished weekends, endless meetings, and a future the composite narrator has already seen in the exhausted people above him.

This is the third 不: 不要, or I don't want it. Apathy was passive; rejection takes energy. For the first time, the narrator stops surviving the script and says no to the role it wrote for him.

昇進を提示された瞬間、それが成功ではなく警告に見えることがある。

複数の会社員の実感を重ねた語り手にとって、I Don't Want Itの角部屋は家具だけが立派になった檻だ。肩書き、昇給、上の階。そのすべてには、消えていく週末、増え続ける会議、そして上司たちの姿に見てしまった未来がついてくる。

三つ目の「不」は、不要——「いらない」。無関心は受け身だったが、拒絶には力がいる。語り手は初めて、会社が用意した台本を演じるのをやめ、その役を断る。

Lyrics歌詞

Corner office, here's the keys — I said no thanks
Higher floor just means a longer fall from the ranks
"Senior Vice President of Making Things Align"
That's a fancy way of saying your weekends ain't mine
They dangled it like bait — the title, the raise
Extra zeros on a check for extra grey in my days
我不要你的升职, keep the parking spot too
I saw what it did to my manager — nah, I'm good, dude

They looked at me like I insulted their mom
"Nobody says no to this" — well here I am, calm
不要就是不要, read my lips, read the room
I'd rather keep my sanity than climb into a tomb

我不要 (I don't want it)
通通都不要 (Don't want any of it)
我不要 — you can take that corner office back
我不要 (I don't want it)
给我也不要 (Won't take it even if you hand it over)
Promotion's just a prettier leash, and that's a fact

"Think of the growth," they said — growth into what?
More meetings, more emails, more "let's touch base" stuff?
Director level means directing my life away
我看过那个未来 and it's fluorescent grey
My boss's boss sleeps at his desk by three
Corner office, leather chair, dead eyes — that's not me
不要不要不要, say it like a mantra now
They keep offering chains and calling them a crown

You know what they don't tell you about promotions?
Every rung up the ladder
The ground gets further away
我不要爬了
I'm good right here
(真的不要)

我不要 (I don't want it)
通通都不要 (Don't want any of it)
我不要 — I'm not climbing, I'm walking my own path
我不要 (I don't want it)
给我也不要 (Won't take it even if you hand it over)
Say no to the throne, keep my soul intact

(不要就是不要)
(不要就是不要)