Bright & Dark is the track from the Rule the Stage -Bad Ass Temple VS Matenro-stage play, performed by Bad Ass Temple and Matenro.
Track Info[]
- Lyrics/Composition/Arrangement: Koji Ide
- Sampling: Light & Shadow
- Length: 6:15
- Tempo:
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Lyrics[]
---(All)---
Bright
Dark
Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on
Bright & Dark
Bright & Dark
Bright & Dark
Bright & Dark
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
It reverberates in my ears still;
Afterimages burning within the dying candle
Reckless with resentment; showing terminal symptoms
Yet within the ash searching for a diamond
The more brilliant the light, the deeper the shadow
Tracing the past for answers is a reductio ad absurdum
I cannot overlook how your mistakes have carried you away;
As your friend I will defeat you now
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
Those who’d mistake the right from the wrong
And those who only listen to the side of the “just”
Idiots like that’ve gotten left behind
I’m not the worthless me driven by winning anymore
I’ve overcome my past, known true pain
To protect my bonds I’ll argue you down
This is an elegy to me as I am
And I’m defeating you here and now
---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---
Bright & Dark, Bright & Dark
Lay bare your dark-bright duality
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
In the wavering neon the city bustles
That bewitching light is my battleground
Your light’s nothing but an imitation
No matter how bright you shine there’s no point
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Can some defense attorney really see how dark my world is?
Can some monk and some edgy kid treat a customer right?
When you’re handing down the tasks like there’s no tomorrow
Can you look at me with all my pride and still sneer like that?
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
We’ve overcome countless battlefields with our variety
No one can rival us when it comes to drinking
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
I’ve been trampled more times than I can count
But don’t think that means all I can do is complain
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
With Doppo-kun atop this verse we strengthen our bonds
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Hurry up and apologize, damnit!
Nagoya, you’re nothing
---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Shaking you down with a perfect scrum
Impenetrable and invincible
Shinjuku Matenro
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
inseparable
---(Kuko Harai)---
With a sermon that crushes evil
I’ll strike the cowards down, I’m awakening
You unknowns don’t got the courage to be notorious
Idiots get outta here!
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
The excess that’s seeped into your heart (ah)
Exposes your crafty ways, Shinjuku
Ideologies and ideals alone you must not lose (woo)
I live on questioning what it means to be myself
---(Kuko Harai)---
Nothin’ gets started if all you do is run
If you’re scareda conflict
You’ll never open your heart
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Enduring our pain we take the front lines
In this battle our pure bonds become the light
---(Kuko Harai)---
We carry our joy and suffering as three
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
We cannot retreat until we emerge the true victor
---(Kuko Harai)---
All or nothing
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Proclaim our determination
---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---
Nagoya Bad Ass Temple, never slipping up
Bright & Dark
Bright & Dark
We’re settling the right from the wrong
---(All)---
Within this city of intermingled light and shadow I’m alive
Cross the border and cry out with a ceaseless howling
We carve away our lives with strokes of word Battle Tribe
Can you steal it away exquisitely?
Will you crumble to dust unseemly?
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Neither yin nor yang can concede
Sound on my Hypnosis Mic
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
We wage war with our resentment
Rhyming without fear of divine retribution
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
A vulgar, flashing party? (No)
Let’s calm down with a bit of herb tea (Yeah)
If you’d frighten the princesses and hurt my friends
I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you impolite guests to leave
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Haunting the nightlife streets like opportunists
If that’s what hosts think is proper then I just can’t accept it!
I don’t wanna see adults’ cheap tricks
That transient dream–I will bring it all to naught
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
You produce nothing; all you speak is dreams (delusions)
You’re just a kid with no digestive issues
Don’t pretend you’re depressed, knock it off with those boots (They’re weird)
I’ll go ahead and buy you a job-hunting suit
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
Oi, I don’t wanna hold justice over your head
But why don’t we fix that pessimism of yours?
Lashing out like that ain’t gonna fix anything
Before you go wild, assess and stop yourself
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
Ah, I feel a sense of beauty about this battle
I perceive that we must open a dialogue
I will have you understand that warring in vain is worthless
Even you, who stand before me as enemies, I will one day save
---(Kuko Harai)---
Save? That’s just proof you’re arrogant
Overconfidence, grief–if that’s fate, it’s ugly
Everyone chooses their own path, no leader needed
Seek the way forward on your own two feet
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
I see; the way you find fault with me is crude,
But I suppose it’s better than remaining apathetic
So then you, a monk who shows others the way
Will have to learn to see the road as I do!
---(Kuko Harai)---
Haha, You’re a real interesting guy, Jakurai
Sure, I’ll take you up on that and serve you consequences
With some eternal, endless abuse
You’re the guy who’s gotta reform here, insolent fool!
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Matenro)---
Let’s push each other higher, we friends declare
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
Let the strength of our bonds last millennia
---(Matenro)---
We who weather our fates together, Shinjuku Matenro
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
We who risk our lives together, Nagoya Bad Ass Temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on
The cycle of karma repeats
As we create a new world
Imposing our wrath with this rhyme and flow
Yin and yang, poetic justice
Within this city of intermingled light and shadow I’m alive
Cross the border and cry out with a ceaseless howling
We carve away our lives with strokes of word Battle Tribe
Can you steal it away exquisitely?
Will you crumble to dust unseemly?
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Neither yin nor yang can concede
Sound on my Hypnosis Mic
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
We wage war with our resentment
Rhyming without fear of divine retribution
Until our voice gives out on us
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
---(Matenro)---
We who weather our fates together, Shinjuku Matenro
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
We who risk our lives together, Nagoya Bad Ass Temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on
Bright
Dark
---(All)---
Bright
Dark
Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
Ima mo mimi ni hibiku zankyō to
Zanzō ga awaku yureru kyandoru
Uppun no bōsō sudeni makkijōjō
Saredo sagasu hai no naka no daiyamondo
Mabushiku hikaru dake tsuyoku naru kage
Kako o tadori kotae sagasu hairihō
Machigatta nagare misugosenai genjō
Naraba tomo to shite kimi o taosou
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
Kō mo tsumi mo hakichigae teta
Do seiron bakari no bōchō-sha (ha~a? )
Son'na baka wa mō koko ni ine~e
Kachi igai mu kachidatta anogoro no ore jane~e
Kako o norikoeta itami mo shitta
Dakara kizuna mamoru tame ni kiru tanka
Ore ga oredearu tame no sanka
Ima koko de omae o taosu
---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Sadake dase onore no in to yō
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
Yureru neon to machi no kensō
Adeyakana hikari ga boku no senjō
Kimitachi no kagayaki wa imitēshon
Ikura migaite mo imi nai sa
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Bengoshi nanka ni ore no burakkuna sekai mieru ka?
Bōzu to chūnibyō ni eigyō ga dekiru ka?
Muyami yatara tasuku no saibun-ka
Dakedo hokori takaku ikiru ore o waraen no ka~tsu!?
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
Ikuta no shuraba taiō shite kita tayō-sei
Nomi no keiken-chi danchigai
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Sanzan'na menara kazoe kirenga
Fukōhei nageku bakari jane~e kanchigai
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
Doppo-kun to kama su verse kizuna de tsunagu
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
`Gomen' to ie kasu~tsu! Nagoya nurumayu
---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Yurugasu zetsumyō no sukuramu
Shikaku-nashi saikyō
Shinjuku Matenro
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Hikatokage hyōriittai
---(Kuko Harai)---
Rinjō hajakenshō seppō
Okubyō kyō sukkon dena kaigan sessō
Mumei ni masaru akumyō no kakugo mo mu ~endaro?
Aho dōke wa doke!
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Kokoro ni shimitsuita zeiniku (ah)
Kōkatsuna yarikuchi no Shinjuku
Rinen risō koso ushinau nakare (woo)
Tsuneni tou ga no aru igi o myself
---(Kuko Harai)---
Nigete bakarija nan mo hajiman'ne~e
Butsukaru no o osore techa uchitokene~e
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Itami ni taenagara saizensen
Tatakau kiyoi kizuna ni hikariare
---(Kuko Harai)---
Yorokobi mo kunō mo san'nin de seou
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Shin no shōsha to naru made wa kōtai senu
---(Kuko Harai)---
Kenkon Itteki
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Kakageru futaiten
---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---
Nagoya Bad Ass Temple nukari wa nē
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Shirokuro tsuke ni sanjō
---(All)---
Hikatokage irimajiru konomachide I'm alive
Border o koete sakebi tsudzukero howling
Inochi no kagiri kezuri au kotoba battle tribe
Utsukushiku (hey) bundoru ka (hey) minikuku (hey) kuchihateru no ka
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Yuzurenai onmyō no rensa
Nari yamanu hipunoshisumaiku
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Waga tame ni tatakau ensa tenbatsu mo osorenu rhyme
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
Gehin ni gira tsuita pātī (no)
Sukoshi ochitsukimashou hābutī (yeah)
Hime o obie sasu nakama kizutsukeru
Reigi-shirazuna okyaku wa o kaeri negau
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
Yoru no machi ni sukuinagara watariaruku seki
Son'na hosuto no sahō wa ukeirenaissu
Mitakunai otona no kozaiku
Utakata no yume waga suihōnikisu
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Shōsansei ga nai yumemi-gachina kotodama (mōsō)
Kenkōna ichō madamada okochama
Enjiru na yūutsu yame toke yo sono būtsu (henda zo ̄ )
Kawari ni katte yaru rikurūtosūtsu
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
Oi seigi-kan o furikazashi takane~e ndaga
Sono hikan shugina seikaku wa tadasou ka
Gyaku gire ja nan mo kawarane~e
Bōsō mae ni onore mitsume tomare
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
Aa nazeka ishikumo kanjiru kono battle
Hitsuyōna no wa taiwada to watashi wa satoru
Muekina arasoi ni kachi wa nai to satosu
Tekidearu anatatachi mo itsuka watashi ga sukuu
---(Kuko Harai)---
Sukuu? Sore wa kisama no ogorinari
Kashin urei matsuro kaku mo minikukeri
Banmin ga erabu michi sendō-sha yō ran
Onore no ashi de aruku kyūdōsha de are
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
Naruhodo ageashiwotoru ronpō
Chisetsudaga mukanshin o kidoru yori wa yoideshou
Naraba hito ni michi o toku sō no anata ni sae
Watashi no yarikata de michi o shimesou!
---(Kuko Harai)---
Haha sasuga omoshiro re ~ena Jakurai ī ze
Ukete yaru ze sono ingōna nari furumai
Sessō no matsudai made tsukinu akutai
Teme~egotoki nya tadasene~e sharakusa ~e!
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Matenro)---
Sessatakuma shi au nakamatachi to sengen
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
Tsuyoi kizuna musubi au ikusen'nen
---(Matenro)---
Unmeiwotomonisuru Shinjuku Matenro
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
Inochi wa reru kazoku Nagoya Bad Ass Temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e
Kurikaesu ingaōhō
Aratana tenchi sōzō
Gekirin'nifureru in to flow
In to yō poetic justice
Hikatokage irimajiru konomachide I'm alive
Border o koete sakebi tsudzukero howling
Inochi no kagiri kezuri au kotoba battle tribe
Utsukushiku (hey) bundoru ka (hey) minikuku (hey) kuchihateru no ka
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Yuzurenai onmyō no rensa
Nari yamanu hipunoshisumaiku
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
Waga tame ni tatakau ensa tenbatsu mo osorenu rhyme
Sakebe koe tsukiru made
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
---(Matenro)---
Unmeiwotomonisuru Shinjuku Matenro
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
Inochi wa reru kazoku Nagoya Bad Ass Temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e
Bright
Dark
---(All)---
Bright
Dark
いざ決着 光差す その場所へ
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
今も耳に響く残響と
残像が淡く揺れるキャンドル
鬱憤の暴走 既に末期症状
されど探す灰の中のダイヤモンド
眩しく光るだけ 強くなる影
過去を辿り答え探す背理法
間違った流れ 見過ごせない現状
ならば友として君を倒そう
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
功も罪も履き違えてた
ド正論ばかりの傍聴者 (はぁ?)
そんなバカはもうここに居ねぇ
勝ち以外 無価値だったあの頃の俺じゃねぇ
過去を乗り越えた 痛みも知った
だから絆 守る為に切る啖呵
俺が俺であるための讃歌
今ここでお前を倒す
---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
曝け出せ己の陰と陽
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
揺れるネオンと街の喧噪
艶やかな光が僕の戦場
君達の輝きはイミテーション
幾ら磨いても意味ないさ
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
弁護士なんかに俺のブラックな世界 見えるか?
坊主と厨二病に営業ができるか?
むやみやたらタスクの細分化
だけど誇り高く生きる俺を笑えんのかっ!?
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
幾多の修羅場 対応してきた多様性
飲みの経験値 段違い
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
散々な目なら数えきれんが
不公平 嘆くばかりじゃねぇ 勘違い
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
独歩君とカマす verse 絆で繋ぐ
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
「ごめん」と言えカスッ! ナゴヤぬるま湯
---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---
揺るがす絶妙のスクラム
死角無し最強
シンジュク 麻天狼
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
光と影 表裏一体
---(Kuko Harai)---
臨場 破邪顕正 説法
臆病共 すっこんでな 開眼 拙僧
無名に勝る悪名の覚悟も無ぇんだろ?
阿呆道化は退け!
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
心に染み付いた贅肉 (ah)
狡猾なやり口のシンジュク
理念理想こそ失うなかれ (woo)
常に問う我の在る意義を myself
---(Kuko Harai)---
逃げてばかりじゃなんも始まんねぇ
ぶつかるのを恐れてちゃ打ち解けねぇ
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
傷みに耐えながら最前線
闘う清い絆に光りあれ
---(Kuko Harai)---
喜びも苦悩も三人で背負う
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
真の勝者となるまでは後退せぬ
---(Kuko Harai)---
乾坤一擲
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
掲げる不退転
---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---
ナゴヤ Bad Ass Temple 抜かりはねぇ
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
白黒つけに参上
---(All)---
光と影 入り混じるこの街で I'm alive
Border を越えて 叫び続けろ howling
命の限り 削り合う言葉 battle tribe
美しく (hey) 分捕るか (hey) 醜く (hey) 朽ち果てるのか
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
譲れない陰陽の連鎖
鳴り止まぬヒプノシスマイク
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
我が為に闘う怨嗟 天罰も恐れぬ rhyme
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
Bright, dark
麻天狼 説法
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
下品にギラついたパーティー (no)
少し落ち着きましょう ハーブティー (yeah)
姫を脅えさす 仲間傷つける
礼儀知らずなお客はお帰り願う
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
夜の街に巣食いながら渡り歩く席
そんなホストの作法は受け入れないっす
見たくないオトナの小細工
泡沫の夢 我が水泡に帰す
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
生産性が無い 夢見がちな言霊 (妄想)
健康な胃腸 まだまだお子ちゃま
演じるな憂鬱 やめとけよそのブーツ (ヘンだぞー)
代わりに買ってやるリクルートスーツ
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
おい 正義感を振り翳したかねぇんだが
その悲観主義な性格は正そうか
逆ギレじゃなんも変わらねぇ
暴走前に己 見つめ 止まれ
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
嗚呼 何故か美しくも感じるこの battle
必要なのは対話だと私は悟る
無益な争いに価値は無いと諭す
敵である貴方達もいつか私が救う
---(Kuko Harai)---
救う? それは貴様の驕りなり
過信 憂い 末路かくも醜けり
万民が選ぶ道 先導者 要らん
己の足で歩く求道者であれ
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
なるほど 揚げ足を取る論法
稚拙だが無関心を気取るよりは良いでしょう
ならば人に道を説く僧の貴方にさえ
私のやり方で道を示そう!
---(Kuko Harai)---
Haha さすが面白れぇな寂雷 いいぜ
受けてやるぜ その因業ななり 振る舞い
拙僧の末代まで尽きぬ悪態
テメェごときにゃ正せねぇ 洒落臭ぇ!
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Matenro)---
切磋琢磨し合う 仲間達と宣言
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
強い絆 結び合う 幾千年
---(Matenro)---
運命を共にする シンジュク麻天狼
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
命はれる家族 ナゴヤ Bad Ass Temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
いざ決着 光差す その場所へ
繰り返す因果応報
新たな天地創造
逆鱗に触れる韻と flow
陰と陽 poetic justice
光と影 入り混じるこの街で I'm alive
Border を越えて 叫び続けろ howling
命の限り 削り合う言葉 battle tribe
美しく (hey) 分捕るか (hey) 醜く (hey) 朽ち果てるのか
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
譲れない陰陽の連鎖
鳴り止まぬヒプノシスマイク
Light and shadow (oh)
Bright and dark, yeah (oh)
我が為に闘う怨嗟 天罰も恐れぬ rhyme
叫べ 声 尽きるまで
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
Bright and dark, bright and dark
Yo yo yo yo
---(Matenro)---
運命を共にする シンジュク麻天狼
---(Bad Ass Temple)---
命はれる家族 ナゴヤ bad ass temple
---(All)---
Bright and dark
Bright and dark
いざ決着 光差す その場所へ
Bright
Dark
---(Hitoya Amaguni)---
Let’s go all out, outsiders sit and watch?
That’s not enough; we’ll overcome you Tokyo
We’re settling this now with my judgment
Shinjuku you have no way to win
---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---
Sorry for making you come all this way
But I can’t take even a single step back
This’s the endurance I built off of overtime
I’ll carve this rhyme into your rock-hard head
---(Jyushi Aimono)---
To a powerful opponent we show no mercy
Believing you could overcome us is a grave mistake
The impenetrable depths of the darkness becomes my power
I declare that I will never retreat
---(Hifumi Izanami)---
Within a darkness so deep the light can’t reach
We once hid ourselves, believing we were helpless
It’s because that time’s behind us that we can be here now
The power to become strong wells within us now
---(Kuko Harai)---
So then c’mon and show me that power
‘Cuz I’ll give you the strongest rhymes from this moutha mine
You’re real funny guys, look how hard I’m laughin’ at ya
Determined Nagoya, feast your eyes on us
---(Jakurai Jinguji)---
Today let us talk to our heart’s content
There is no one who could possibly replace me
The reason we’ve concealed for choosing to fight
Matenrou–let us show you our resolve
Credits[]
- Translation by Linktieria.