Track 5 · Lyricsトラック 5・歌詞

Garage in the Golden City

黄金の街のガレージ

Pulled away from Tokyo, the traveler enters a fictional garage in golden-era Phnom Penh and learns that grief for one place does not prevent connection with the next.東京から引き離された旅人が、黄金時代のプノンペンを舞台にした架空のガレージで、別れの痛みが次のつながりを拒む理由にはならないと知る。

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Behind the Track楽曲の背景

The Tokyo glow disappears, leaving the traveler inside a hot, crowded garage in golden-era Phnom Penh. They are still grieving the place they wanted to keep, and this raw new room initially feels like another unwanted interruption.

Then the people inside laugh, make space, and pull the stranger with no name into music that was already alive before they arrived. The traveler does not understand every word, but they recognize the invitation.

Tokyo taught them what it feels like to lose a place. Phnom Penh teaches them that loving what came before does not require refusing whatever comes next.

東京の光が消えたあと、旅人は黄金時代のプノンペンを舞台にした、熱気のこもる架空のガレージへ放り込まれる。東京を離れた痛みがまだ残り、この荒々しい部屋も、最初は望んでいなかった次の中断にしか見えない。

けれど、中にいる人たちは笑い、場所を空け、名もない旅人を、到着する前から生きていた音楽の中へ招き入れる。すべての言葉は分からない。それでも、招かれていることは分かる。

東京は、場所を失う痛みを教えた。プノンペンは、前の場所を愛することと、次の出会いを受け入れることは矛盾しないと教える。

Lyrics歌詞

The neon's gone, the bass line's gone, the glow is far away
Ripped from paradise and thrown into a — what is this place?
Concrete walls and tangled wires, amps that hum and shake
Someone handed me a guitar — okay, for Tokyo's sake

What year is this?

The singer's wailing something wild, I don't know the words
But the melody goes sideways in a way I've never heard
The organ's screaming, drums are pounding, sweat is on the floor
This isn't what I wanted but my hands are begging more

Still thinking 'bout the neon lights I left behind
But this fuzz guitar is rewriting my mind

Plug me in, turn it up, let the feedback sing
I came here by mistake but now I'm feeling everything
Don't know the language, don't know the song
But the amp's still buzzing and I'm playing along
Wrong place, wrong time — I'M FINE

The band just laughed and pulled me in — the stranger with no name
They don't care where I'm from, the music sounds the same
Phnom Penh is golden, the radio's on
American signals mixing with a Khmer rock song

This city's ALIVE

Plug me in, turn it up, let the feedback sing
I came here by mistake but now I'm feeling everything
Don't know the language, don't know the song
But the amp's still buzzing and I'm playing along
Wrong place, wrong time — I'M FINE

I keep chasing centuries I didn't choose
Tokyo taught me what it feels like to lose
But this garage — with the wires and the heat
Taught me sometimes wrong is where the rhythm meets your feet

Eh... close enough to rock

PLUG ME IN, TURN IT UP, let the feedback SING
I came here by mistake but now I'm feeling EVERYTHING
Don't know the language, don't know the song
But the amp's still buzzing and I'm playing along
Lost again — might as well PLAY

The amp hums out... the golden city sleeps
But somewhere in my pocket, the machine still beeps