Inner Universe

Lithium Flower

Beauty is within us

Monochrome

Run rabbit junk

Some other time

Stamina Rose

Velveteen

Where does this ocean go

Inner Universe
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex OP

Lyrics: Origa/Shanti Snyder
Music: Yoko Kanno
Vocals: Origa
Treble: Benedict Delmaestro (The London Oratory School Schola)

***Original song is in Russian***

Angely i demony kruzhili nado mnoj
Razbivali ternii i zvyozdnye puti
Ne znaet schast'ya tol'ko tot,
Kto ego zova ponyat' ne smog...
	Angels and demons were circling above me
	Breaking the hardships and starry ways
	The only one who doesn't know the happiness
	is the one who couldn't understand his call

I am Calling Calling now, 
Spirits rise and falling
Soboj ostat'sya dol'she...
Calling Calling, in the depth of longing
Soboj ostat'sya dol'she...
	I am Calling Calling now, 
Spirits rise and falling
	To stay myself longer...
	Calling Calling, in the depth of longing
	To stay myself longer...

Stand alone... 
Where was life when it had a meaning...
Stand alone... 
Nothing's real anymore and...

...Beskonechnyj beg...
Poka zhiva ya mogu starat'sya na letu ne upast',
Ne razuchit'sya mechtat'...lyubit'...
...Beskonechnyj beg...
	...Endless run...
	While I'm alive, 
	I can try not to fall while flying,
	Not to forget how to dream... how to love
	...Endless run...

Calling Calling, For the place of knowing
There's more that what can be linked
Calling Calling, Never will I look away
For what life has left for me
Yearning Yearning, for what's left of loving

Soboj ostat'sya dol'she...
Calling Calling now, 
Spirits rise and falling
Soboj ostat'sya dol'she...
Calling Calling, 
in the depth of longing
Soboj ostat'sya dol'she...
	To stay myself longer...
	Calling Calling now, 
	Spirits rise and falling
	To stay myself longer...
	Calling Calling, 
	in the depth of longing
	To stay myself longer...




Beauty is within us

Vocal: Scott Matthew
Words: Chris Mosdell
Music: Yoko Kanno

O mother dear
Look what you've done
To your forlorn and once beloved son
Why was I born at all?
O mother dear
I'm such a freak
A mutant man, a woman underneath
Why was I born at all?

It's you I blame for all the shame
This anguish and this aching
The mirror turned against the wall
Myself despised, forsaken
*You say, "Beauty is within us, your mother knows"
"There's a beauty that's within us, just like a rose"
You say, "Beauty is within us, so let it grow"
But it's grown so dark and ugly

O mother dear
I curse you so
For breathing life into your wretched son
Why were you born at all?
O mother dear
I love you so
O please forgive this anger in my soul
Without you I'm alone

It's me who's been eternally damned
Trapped inside this cage, a ruined man
All damaged and depraved

O mother dear
This misery
Has settled like a stain upon my skin
-a vast unspoken sin

And my mistake is much too late
But your mistake was trusting
That out of grief, a goodness comes
And love comes out of lusting

*repeat

You say, "Beauty is within us, your mother knows"
"There's a beauty that's within us, just like a rose"
You say, "Beauty is within us, so let it grow"
But it's grown so dark I can not see you anymore

"O beauty is within us, mother knows"
"O beauty is within us, like a rose"
"O beauty is within us, let it grow"
"O mother dear, let me out of here!"




Monochrome
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex IS

Vocal: Ilaria Graziano
Words: troy
Music: Yoko Kanno

where all the colors are
ocean
the silent ocean knows
your face
your reality
haven't been the same lately
wonder could it be a lack of devotion?
seeing in monochrome
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions
feel
can you feel
might be why colors disappear

the place we call our soul
ocean
the cyber ocean sees
your dreams
your totality
nothing stays the same
someday
I hope you will make more lasting connections
feeling jn monochrome
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions
see
can you see
colors that the ocean offers
be
can you be
something more than black white and gray
being in monochrome
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions
who taught you emotions




Lithium Flower
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex ED

Vocal: Scott Matthew
Words: Tim Jensen
Music: Yoko Kanno

she's so cold and human
it's something humans do
she stays so golden solo
she's so number nine
she's incredible math
just incredible math

and is she really human?
she's just so something new
a waking lithium flower
just about to bloom
I smell lithium now
smelling lithium now

how is she when she doesn't surf?
how is she when she doesn't surf?
how is she when she doesn't surf?
I wonder what she does when she wakes up?
when she wakes up

so matador
so calm
so oil on a fire
she's so good
she's so goddess lithium flower
so sonic wave
yeah, she's so groove, yeah
she's so groove
yeah

wow, where did she learn how to surf?
wow, where did she learn how to surf?
wow, where did she learn how to surf?
you know I've never seen the girl wipe out

how does she so perfectly surf?
how does she so perfectly surf?
how does she so perfectly surf?
I wonder what she does when she wakes up?

I wanna go surfing with her
I wanna go surfing with her
I wanna go surfing with her
I wanna go surfing with her




Run rabbit junk
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex IS

vocal: HIDE
words: Tim Jensen
music:Yoko Kanno

kiss a cop
goin' downtown
need backup now, you know why?
I like talkin' 'bout weather
car two, callin' car two
got a fight
dope an wild ice
callin' cars
a jump to nowhere
up, down take me downtown
copy that I'm over and out
another never
another never
another never
hey you so how's your mother?
come on, come on

* kickin' me
are you dumb, sir?
move, move are you done, sir?
you've makin' me
mad enough, sir
boom, boom
ain't no dancer
you're kickin' me
are you dumb, sir?
move, move
are you done, sir?
you've makin' me
mad enough, sir
boom, boom
you are done, sir

party time at seven and vine
everybody's setting up to breakdown
hey you, dance a no dance
you do low-fi
you shootin' lowfare
pretty girls who run about
rabbit soft
a dime for some dare
voodoo
a little bit of mars
uptown
callin' all cars

*repeat 2 times




Velveteen

Vocal: Ilaria Graziano
Words: troy
Music: Yoko Kanno

seeing you in my tears
in my own reflection
I hear you in the wind that passes through me

feel you in my hunger
you're haunting my ambition
beautifully destructive attraction

climbed to zero G's
now falling like a rock
drugged and digitized you inside a dream

* [Italian] Tu sei per me...iaria che respiro
il mio cibo, cioche osservo
magico sei tu! e sento che
Sono inamorata di emozioni
smisurate e infinite ormai!
vivi, nei miei pensieri.
	You are for me... the air that I breathe
	My food, the eyes I see with
	You're the magic! And I feel
	Than I'm in love
	Immeasurably and almost intinitely
	Live, in my thoughts

a velveteen equation

I find you in my fears
and in my fascination
I taste you in safe water and it drowns me

paranoid and peaceful
inside a sweet addiction
velvety electrical reaction

soft insanity
and I can't make it stop
live hallucination within a dream

* Repeat

a velveteen equation

magico, questo eun grande amore
magico, questo eun grande amore
	Magic, this is the great love
	Magic, this is the great love




Where Does This Ocean Go?

Vocal: Ilaria Graziano
Words: troy
Music: Yoko Kanno

all day the city's selling something
always, the busy people spinning around
busier dizzier
till they go back home to somewhere

and taxies stop to say "hello"
"want a ride? I'll take you there"
"to anywhere, just tell my driver"

the sun is casting shadows
an afternoon is fading
I ask, but no one knows
the answer to the question
my life is like an island
where does this ocean go?

shyly, a wino sips his wine
slowly, cause to him that is all that matters
he sees a cat he knows so well
now sleeping on a bench together

a woman waiting by herself, selling flowers
"please buy some, 
so I can help my daughter, will you?"

the man with spider eyebrows
is standing on a corner
"who wants to see a show?"
his head looks like a melon
he turns into an alley
then stops to blow his nose
sky is filled with neon
the buildings stand electric
and almost seem to glow
want answers to the question
my life is like an island
where does the ocean go?
I really want to know
my life is like an island
it's time for me now to fly
where does the ocean go?