No Save Point / TOKYO AFTER HOURS

昔住んでた通りを、地図で見つけた夜。選ばなかった人生と、セーブポイントのない毎日の歌。 東京で暮らす30代の、仕事以外の名前のつかない時間を曲にしています。 歌詞と絵の短い版はInstagramで毎日更新中 → https://www.instagram.com/tokyo_after_hours_/ ― 歌詞 ― Saw my old street on a map last night Wasn't looking for it, just caught my eye Bookstore gone, now a different sign Road felt smaller than I had in mind Maybe the street never really changed Maybe I'm the one who walked away Used to spend all day with nothing planned Couple coins and too much time on hand Thought I'd be somebody someday Never knew who, never knew which way Ten years sounded too far ahead Now I'm standing where that future went Not the place that I thought I'd know Not exactly where I planned to go But I can't call it wrong just yet Still too early to settle that bet The life I didn't choose looks clean No bad days in a road unseen Every mistake gets cut from the frame Easy to love what you never became What if I turned left instead of right? What if I said what I meant that night? Questions get better the longer they age When you never had to live that page Still got names that I never call Used to see those people all the time Can't remember the final day We just said, "I'll see you," walked away Funny how endings really arrive No final scene, no warning sign Just one ordinary afternoon You only know when it's gone from view If life had a save point somewhere back Which day would I keep on the track? Got a hundred moments I'd reload But I don't know what they'd overwrite though Wrong words, wrong turns, jobs I chose Places I skipped and people I lost Change one thing, then the whole thing shifts Nobody tells you what goes with it Fix that night, then this disappears Take that road, never end up here Can't keep the good while deleting the pain Life ain't built like a video game Does that mean I would never go? Nah, I don't think I could say that though Still got regrets that visit at night Still got things that I wish went right But if the screen lit up right now "LOAD FROM HERE?" with a yes or no I'd probably sit there for a while... then leave it alone. Not tonight. I don't call it right, don't call it wrong Still don't know where this road belongs Can't score a story halfway through When half the pages are still brand new Kid me might laugh at where I am "That's all you got? That was the plan?" I'd probably laugh and tell him, "Yeah, Turns out life's a little weird from here." No save point, just another day Everything quietly overwritten anyway I won't say "never look behind" I do it more than I'd like sometimes And moving forward ain't some noble thing Sometimes you move 'cause the morning begins So let that old file stay where it is I don't need to know what could've been There's still a little more ahead. Might as well see where it goes. #TOKYOAFTERHOURS #オリジナル曲 #シティポップ