151a, by Kishi Bashi (2024)

1.

aetara dousuru dousuru? Aetara dousuru? *aetara dousuru dousuru? Aetara dousuru?one dayyou and meagain under the tall treePassion, Passion we'll both look up in merrimentyou'd said to me,"climb quickly! there's two birds you'll miss thembefore they fly their separate ways"I miss you... (aetara iina)I'll miss you (aetara iina)aetara iina... aetara iina...aetara iina... aetara iina...Aetara dousuru? dousuru? Aetara dousuru?Aetara dousuru? dousuru? Aetara dousuru?* Japanese: "aetara dousuru?" translates as "what would happen if we could meet?" "aetara iina" means "I wish I could see you".

2.

I wrote me a book I hid the last page I didn't even look I think I locked it in a cage wrote a novel 'cause everybody likes to read a novel... it started with a word, and it started pretty well about a rare and fragile bird that I couldn't even spell ...on the table... I think I left it on the table... I found the last page in the sky, cold and sweet like an apple I found you and now the story has it's proper end(the end, the end what then?)oh hello, will you be mine? I haven't felt this alive in a long time all the streets are warm today, heyI read signs I haven't been this in love in a long time the sun is up, the sun will stay all for the new dayThe very last breath of the hero of our tale would you only to guess did he truly prevail in the the sequel? I guess I'll have to write a sequel... my favorite part's when I die in your arms like a movie (in the ending I...)it's tragic, but now the story has it's proper end. oh hello, will you be mine? I haven't felt this alive in a long time all the streets are warm and grey, hey I read the signs... I haven't been this in love in a long time the sun is up the sun will stay all for the new day will you be mine? (will you be mine?)the days are short and I wrote me my last rhyme all the streets are warm today I read the signs (stop!)I haven't been in this love in a long time. it's been a long time

3.

keya keya sorya douse ne, keya keya sorya douse dame da. yamerarenai yamerarenai. douse damedakedo yamerarenai nekeya keya sorya douse ne, keya keya sorya douse dame da. taerarenai taerarenai, douse damedakedo taerarenai ne*you and me at the edge of the world with a pretty little smile for me to see new bright whites and a cage full of ice and a naked little canopy to feed my disease and if you're to smile at me I could cry by land or sea after you said that you like Big Red™ I opened up my mind and skipped a beat cufflinks and hands in wrong places and faces and creepy little movies made me weep and if you're to say to me what is mine is yours to keep (forever and...)well you know, I'll have to see if all the stars aligned we could've solved the mystery it's a partial fantasy we're living in a land that went astray from historyprehistorykeya keya sorya douse ne, keya keya sorya douse dame da. yamerarenai yamerarenaiyamerarenai (every cloud has silver linings)you and me at the edge of the bed looking at the faded pictures for you to see and me to see murder and colonies, land without rivers raging in the middle of some sad destiny take one look to find my eyes safety's in your inner thigh well you know, I'll have to see, if all the stars aligned we could have solved the mystery it's a partial fantasy we're living in a land that went astray from historyprehistorykeya keya sorya douse ne, keya keya sorya douse dame da. yamerarenai yamerarenaidouse damedakedo yamerarenai...*Japanese: "douse dame da" means "probably impossible" "yamerarenai" means "can't stop" and "taerarenai" means "can't take it anymore"

4.

kesa ka ni sasareta* and the source was your laughterthrew me off the wallused your face as a mascotand the medicine came after left in a sprawlmany miles from Cessna™kesa ka ni sasaretaone of many in the mess hallfamily there and allmaking money on the desktopwas at war with fast cars many chemicals in the eyes of The MasterBurst!(master in every way)kesa ka ni sasaretafor the love of the soft gamemade of models set in plasterwhen in doubt of the last yeargather all your fear anddip your hand in the blenderBurst!In your wallet was your genderstolen when in Romein the shadow of your blenderwas a secret of the bedroomblemish in the chromein the eye of the bender(chiku)kesa ka ni sasaretaIt All Began With Burst nowevery several monthsand the chemicals came afterit was a race to be faster quicker than the worstin the style of The Master *Japanese: translates as "this morning I was bit by a mosquito""chiku" is onomatopoeia for the sound of a bug biting

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when candy was a remedy,we'd make it up,we'd destroy ourselves in the yard,I held you in a wooden place,I was hungry thenit was hours before it went darkoh wonder woman, wonder meyou bewitched me with your gold and blue from the startkin-kon-kan-kon kaneganaru*kin-kon-kan-kon kaneganaruwhen Pluto was demoted,I felt a sigh of relief... i never knew whylike all things in The Quickening,we share the fallen few"...there can be only one"and when at night I'd find that silent spacewhere I'd gouged my heart for youwhere dreams dwelled safe is now a dangerous placefor idle thoughts anewkin-kon-kan-kon kaneganarukin-kon-kan-kon kaneganarumemories are over by the desire to throw them away and into the skybound by the Newtonianhe said what goes up must always come down.* "Kin-kon-kan-kon" is Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of bells"kaneganaru" translates as "the bells ring"

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All day everyday breeding like a curseyou're still wrecking all our averages making us look worse Burst!brandishing your cavendish, yellow over whitethrowing feces at the rhesus making babies every night Burst!Burst! in the park burst in the zoofurimuitara camera ni dash*teru*Burst! in the plane burst into flamesdokodemo dash*temo iinoda, geemu dadokodemo dash*temo Burst*Japanese: "good luck" on this one :)

7.

oh in the desert, we tried tolove like they do in moviesface to face end of storyas twins we created an eratwo souls in prime Saharaswallowed by sand and time we playwhat began as an epicended a Partched patheticarid and vapid like our attachmentsI was in love with you you're all I ever knewI gave my head to youthe way I used to doit's in a better place nowwhat you decide to do with it is up to youlike all things you feed onoh in the desert you sucked my fingerit wasn't meant to be, it was like water from leatheroh my god, what can i pay you to stopso in my desert what was the nature of your visit to my domain business or pleasure?oh my god, you just don't care if i dropI was in love with you you're all I ever knewI gave my head to youthe way I used to doit's in a better place nowwhat you decide to do with it is up to youoh in the desert you sucked my fingeratama furafura yubisakiga katakunaru**Japanese: "atama furafura" translates as "I'm going dizzy..."

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Who are you? who am I to you?I am the antichrist to youfallen from the sky with graceinto your arms racelucid lovers me and youa deal of matchless valueI was always quick to admit defeatempty statements of bones and meatand my heart it shook with fearI'm a coward behind a shield and speartake this sword and throw it farlet it shine under the morning starwho are you? who am I to you?I am the antichrist to youfallen from the sky with graceinto your arms raceone for my heart and two for showthree tears for all the souls belowone day we made them into figurinesburned them all with all my favorite thingswho are you? who am I to you?I am the antichrist to youfallen from the sky with graceinto your arms racewho are you? who am I to you?I am the antichrist to youfallen from the sky with graceinto your arms...

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Oh River!Beat the bright out of meI've discovered the silhouette of the face of meeverybody wants a taste of the lightbut me!Mr. CrowleyI've found a sister for mein the jungle in the trunk of a mango treekissed a finger just to savor the biteyou've suffered the best for lastFurious and Too Fastyou've suffered the best for last

released April 10, 2012

Produced by Kishi Bashi

Mixed by Drew Vandenburg and Kishi Bashi @ Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA
Recorded @ Home Studios, Norfolk, VA. Additional recording @Apollinaire Rave, Chase Park, OGL, and Kimberly's House and Yoed's Apartment Studios

All music by Kishi Bashi except:

Clayton Rychlik - percussion on "Bright Whites", Yoed Nir - cello and electric cello on "Manchester" and "I Am the Antichrist to You"
(Yoed is a Yamaha Performance Artist), Davey Pierce - snare and additional analog synths , Nicolas Dobbratz - additional tambourine, Jarrod Fowler - bowed metal on "Beat the Bright Out of Me", Sola Ravel: Asian child sounds, The Athens Biohazard Manplayers - hand claps and joyful group singing on "It All Began With a Burst" and "Bright Whites", and "Beat the Bright Out of Me". TABM are: Dottie Alexander, Nicolas Gould, Thayer Serrano, Clayton Rychlik, James Huggins III, and Bryan Poole.

All songs by K Ishibashi ©2011 (ASCAP, Kizmoda Music)