This Is Not - Sen Morimoto

This is not the way you want it

This is not the way I want it

This is not the way you want it

This is not the way I want it

I’m just looking out for you

I’m just being extra cautious

Look at what you bout to do

This is not the way you want it

I’m just being extra cautious

I’m just looking out for you

You don’t wanna let me call it

Look it’s obvious, they don’t process karma

Or effects and causes

This is not the way they want it

They can’t understand the farthest reaches

Like the graph that’s in the sand upon the beach

Don’t see the sea

I need a sec, I need a-

We can go and break a promise

Hum our songs and make a bond

I identify as real

Life inside a great facade

I don’t mean to sound this odd

It’s awkward

This is not the way I want it

This is not the day to comment

Cause I’m anxious and robotic

There’s a logic to the way that how you want it

Is connected to a product

Get connected and rethought of

How you wish that they would see you

But you’re feeling blue and see-through

Everyone that you meet is you and saying «Me too!»

Counting to the end, counting presidents (Me too!)

I don’t know God

But I understand the evidence

Oh my god!

I cannot believe the messages

This is not the way we want it

Get beyond it

Life and lemons, gin & tonic

(Pentatonic scales swim across my mind

Every time it did I try to keep it simple

This is not the way you want it

This is not the way I want it

Someday they’ll find this honest

They don’t understand the concept)

I thought everything was simple as sugar and water

I thought any day I’ll understand it (any day)

But it only got harder

It only got farther away from me

I give the heart’s praise to the mind

I gave you my time

And I’m gonna need that back

I need everything, but it’s nothing, no bother

You got plenty of problems, probably

Probably

I just misplaced all of me

I just, did, we must get lost, and how

And how

Does anyone slow down?

Uchi to ie no chigai ore, boku watashi

Me myself and I are on a highway, we’re flying cautiously

Watashi no chi wa hapa atataka ake i

Glass full, let em break

So nobody bothers me

Nobody can sit with me

And no one can belittle me

And my keyboard is broken so this song is missing middle D

You’re missing the point, a double-edge is not a blade

Ignorance is bliss, and that’s as simple as it’s made

If I go, I’m so enthusiastic

Itten go one, and I half-assed it

Back it up, what am I—fuck it, I’m in pain

Uchi to ie no chigai ore, what’s my name?

All of y’all can love above the clouds, I need space

Sharp tongues everywhere but no one has taste

You’re missing the point, a double-edge is not a blade

Glass half-full of shit, I knew you were fake

Yesterday everything was magic

Guess today I’m feeling kinda plastic

Get in loser, we’re going to practice

Get in- (chuckle)

Proba-boba-boba-boba-proba-boba

Probably

I just misplaced all of me

(And I’m gonna need that back)

I just, did, we must get lost, and how

And how

Does anyone slow down?

(I'm gonna need that

I’m gonna need that)

(Repeated)

I’m gonna need that back

I’m gonna need that back

I’m gonna need that back

I’m gonna need that back

I’m gonna need that back

I’m gonna need that

I’m gonna, I’m gonna need that back