Lyrics

Here are the lyrics to some of my songs! If you’re wondering why they’re written the way they are (inconsistent capitalization/punctuation, unconventional romanization of Japanese lyrics, etc.) it’s because they’re all taken directly from my notes. You can click on the song name to go to the lyrics, and if you click on the song name there it’ll take you to the mp3. Anyways, thank-you for listening!

Call Me Home
Faster
Haunting
Look up at the Sky
Starshine
Zombies on your Lawn
Uraniwa ni Zombies ga!
2.75
The best it can be
Traces

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Call Me Home
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(pre-verse)
i walk alone in this world
inside; lonely
Your words are poetry
and hope for me

(verse 1)
light a candle in the dark
fold my hands, speak from the heart
afraid You won’t hear what i say
too weak to walk away

now the room is filled with light
You had never left my side
You begin to fill the void that’s there
You are everywhere

(chorus)
so i reach to You above any other
You’ve been calling to me all my life
and although again i’ll turn away
Your love still remains
call me home… today.

(pre-verse 2)
i am poured out like water
my soul; empty
but it is a mystery
how You reveal Yourself to me

(verse 2)
Calm me, break me, make me whole
lead me and restore my soul
i know i can’t make it on my own
my heart, as hard as stone

slowly i can see Your love
hear the angels dance above
overwhelmed by what i start to feel
growing stronger as You heal

(chorus repeat twice)

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“Faster”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
I’m writing words down on a train
in hopes I follow through on plans, I make
Time is in my hands, but I, keep finding reasons
to throw it all away

(pre-chorus 1)
I have spent my whole life wondering what’s out there
too afraid to let go and jump in
Something’s holding me back from where I need to go
I wanna be, too alive to sleep

(chorus)
(that’s why)I wanna go faster
Tired of being still, don’t wanna linger
I’ve got to find the purpose that was meant for me.

Cuz if I move any slower,
soon my life is going to be over
before I find the meaning that I seek.

(verse 2)
I’ve grown so restless in my wake,
it’s killing me just getting through, the day-to-day
There’s a hunger inside me, I can’t, explain,
to try to find my place

(pre-chorus 2)
There’s so many pieces of me I’ve left behind
through my fingers I have let them slide
Now I’m looking back on who I used to be
that part of me, I’ve got to find

(chorus)

(bridge)
Maybe it is normal not to see
but please reveal to me traits that define the person,
I should strive to be
I’ll be different from before
I know I’ve got to hold out for more

(chorus x2)
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“Haunting”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
i’ve been holding back my thoughts
do whatever i can to distract myself
you’re a million miles away
i would cross the times so i
could be with you, i’m dying slowly without you

(pre-chorus)
even when i’m sleeping
i’m finding that it’s hard to keep
that promise i made to myself
to let go

even though you’re far away
i cannot go a single day
my heart is so displaced
i can’t forget you

(chorus)
it’s haunting
my memories
everytime you manage to
steal my train of thought
even though i said i love you not

it’s haunting
that feeling
whenever i start thinking
that i see you here
but you’re not here… anymore

(verse 2)
everyday i tried so hard
not to let myself fall even deeper for you
but there was nothing i could do
as the tears fell down it became obvious
that i had been defeated

(pre-chorus and chorus repeat)
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“Look up at the Sky”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
Time, building walls between us, mountains all around
Falling faster everyday, but I won’t hit the ground,
don’t make a sound
living for now
so I can feel you breathing next to me.
Please don’t fall asleep.

Today, I’ll remember everything about the way
that you hold my hand inside of your’s
and tell me things
so I’ll believe
you are to me my poetry
the one that I’ve been dreaming of so long.

(chorus)
Look up at the sky tonight
and make a wish about tomorrow.
Count the stars,
they can’t outshine how I feel for you.
Even when the darkness closes in all around us,
I will be together with you.

(verse 2)
Far
from it all, we’re spinning in a globe of stars.
Darkness spans the Earth, but I will still know where you are
Bestill my heart,
this is the part where I will start believing it could be
only you and me.

Tonight
I think that we’ll be the only ones for miles;
hiding in the corners of the world
you say to me
this memory
will always be a pictured scene
that you would keep inside you for all time.

(chorus repeat)
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“Starshine”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
I’m looking up and outside my window
many stars for making wishes
not about the past, just onto the future
time for letting go

I’m wanting to amount to something
I’m trying harder to get better
I’m gonna do everything that I can do
to make it work

(pre-chorus)
Take what we’re given
To make the best of things before we go
Someday we’ll get there
I know, I know…

(chorus)
Moving forward
Going faster than before
illuminate the road and light the way

New beginnings
Starshine all over the place
Tomorrow is a new day after all

(verse 2)
I gotta say, I made so many mistakes
that if I watched a replay
about my life,
it’s possible I might want a second chance

But I’m here now, without a doubt in my mind
that I want just to be here
Shine in the day, and in the night
through the darkness all around

(chorus)

(bridge)
Don’t hold back, find a reason to make you move
Without that there’s no light in your day
When we fall, we get up, we fight we stay
Hold on tight, keep the hope, find your way

(chorus repeat)
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“Uraniwa ni Zombies ga!”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara (Zombies performed by Tak Shigihara)

Himawari…
Sei no!

(chorus)
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie wa dete ita

(verse 1)
Zombie wa kowai gaikotsu
Hanabira zenbu o toritagaru
Sono ato atama wo tabetagaru
Tadano Himawari
Dakedo watashi wa tsuyoi!
Noumiso ga suki
Zombie wa kirai

(pre-chorus 1)
Softball de asonda yo!
Helmetto wo kabutta zo!
Screen door wo motta zo!
Oretachi Zombie, Zombie, Zombie da!

(chorus)
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie wa dete ita

(verse 2)
Uraniwa de asobitai
Atama wo taberu no yamenasai
Noumiso niwa cholesterol ga ippai
Shinda node kankei nai kedo
Solar power de tatakau yo
Shokubutsu wo mamoru tame

(pre-chorus 2)
Sono sanrinsha choudai
Atama ni butter ga kuttsui jata
Noumiso taberu zo!
Oretachi Zombie, Zombie, Zombie da!

(chorus)
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie ga yatte kita
Zombie wa dete ita
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“Zombies on your Lawn”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara (Zombies performed by George Fan)

Sunflower…
1-2-3!

(chorus)
There’s a zombie on your lawn
There’s a zombie on your lawn
There’s a zombie on your lawn
We don’t want zombies on the lawn

(verse 1)
I know your type, tall dark and dead
You wanna bite all the petals off of my head
And then eat the brains of the one who planted me here

I’m just a sunflower, but see
me power an entire infantry
You like the taste of brains, we don’t like zombies

(pre-chorus 1)
I used to play football
Road cones protect my head
I have a screen door shield
We are the undead!

(chorus repeat)

(verse 2)
Maybe it’s time to reevaluate
I think you have a lot of food on your plate
Brains are quite rich in cholesterol

You’re dead so it doesn’t matter
Instead we’ll use this solar power
To make a lawn defense at any hour

(pre-chorus 2)
I like your tricycle
There’s butter on my head
I’m gonna eat your brain
We are the undead!

(chorus repeat)
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“2.75”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
I watch the world go on outside of this window
All day I tolerate the things that they say
Is my worth measured by my 9 to 5, if so
Do you believe that what we wear dictates our place

(pre-chorus)
I can feel my life slowly slip away, but I’m
finding peace in plotting my escape
Counting down the days until I break away from here
I’m a show you how much I can take

(chorus)
There’s more, to me than what you see, believe, you don’t know me at all
They, don’t know any better
Though there’s a wall standing in between me and what I wanna be
I’m fed up, keep my head up, I’ll be fine as long as I’m alive cuz
someday I know that I will be free

(verse 2)
2.75 for the train ride, every morning
I clock into the same thing day in and out
We all want to leave, but we’re bound to, what we do
But holding on to hope is what this life’s about

(pre-chorus 2)
I wanna drink the moon out of the water, and I
wanna tell them what I have to say, but I’ll
keep it to myself until I break away from here
I’m a show you how much I can take

(chorus repeat)
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“The best it can be”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
Open up your eyes
There’s so much to see
Worlds that you’ve never been to
waiting patiently

Let go of the past
Just embrace today
Hold your life in your hands before it slips away

(pre-chorus)
That’s what I wanna feel,
that time where everything
is within my reach
at the end it’s just beginning
Someday I will want to be nowhere but now

(chorus)
Let me introduce myself
Please believe I don’t want to be somewhere else
This could be the first and last we’ll ever meet

I could not forget this chance
You should know that I am giving all I have to this moment
So then we might as well make now
the best it can be

(verse 2)
What’s holding you back?
Why are you unsure?
You should let go of everything
It’s adventure

I will not look down
I will give my all
I was never afraid to jump
til I knew I could fall

(pre-chorus)
(chorus)
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“Traces”
written and performed by Laura Shigihara

(verse 1)
You held your arm out to me
Not exactly what it seemed
Out of place, walking alone, and in between

On your shoulder rest my head
Letting all the things he said
Paint a picture of how it could be

(pre-chorus)
Will I see you again
And will it be the same
As your fingertips slide off of mine
I’m reminded of all that I’m leaving behind

(chorus)
Though I wish I could follow those words every hour
As the time drawing near comes to take you away
And again the way you look at me I know so well
Hold me deep in your arms
And tell me not to cry
Traces remain beyond this time

(verse 2)
Now a dark time lays ahead
All the heaviness I’ve let come to be
you were the bridge above the sea

Once more I’d look into your eyes
Every memory I sigh
Always searching but what will we find

(pre-chorus)
(chorus)

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(“Zombies on your Lawn” and “Uraniwa ni Zombies ga!” Copyright 2009-2010 PopCap Games All rights reserved)