＜ Song list ＞

1. Subliminal Suite

     (a) Voice from the Forest

     (b) Subliminal Dream

     (c) Invisible Chains

2. Ruin/Romance

3. Secession Suite

     (a) Fallen Angel

     (b) Forest in My Mind

4. The Forest in My Dreams

5. The Rover

6. Into the Confusion

7. Silent Decision

8. Dark Summer's Rain

＜ Credits ＞

Masahiro "Manzo" Takeuchi : Keyboards

Yuichi "Mino" Herai : Bass Guitar, Cello

Hiroshi Yamashita : Drums

Akihisa Nakamura : Vocals, Keyboards

Osamu Kato : Guitars

Masatoshi Fujita : Vocals, Guitars

Goda : Vocals (Guest)

Produced by THYNK∞F

All tracks arranged by THYNK∞F (except Track 4 arranged by O. Kato / M. Takeuchi / A. Nakamura)

Cover design and illustration by Masahiro "Manzo" Takeuchi

Concept and story by Akihisa Nakamura

English lyrics and vocal production by Mutsumi "Gonzales" Tanamura

Recorded at Fuefuki Studio, Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2008

Mixed at Studio D-Sound

Engineered by Dani / Akihisa Nakamura

Mastered by Dani

Special thanks to :

Ben Suzuki, Yutaka "Captain Ahab" Masuda, Yoshihide "KAME" Akiyama (Cinderella Search, Machine Messiah), Tatsuo Inoue (Cinderella Search, Machine Messiah, Rockburger, Hanawaka), Yukie Yoshida (Silver Elephant), all of our families, and YOU !!

＜ Lyrics ＞

Subliminal Suite (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura,  Music by A. Nakamura）

(a) Voice from the Forest (Instrumental)

(b) Subliminal Dream

Deep in this forest

Here I stand alone

I hear the birds chirp, twitter and sing

Murmurs in the trees

Wind - soft and sweet

I let the clear air fill up my lungs

And in the mystic dream I had before

Overflowing tears turn into rain drops

A sigh becomes a breeze

Even if I don't say a word (say a word)

The ambience holds me softly

The conifer forest - is a sacred place

Please don't wake me out of this dream

Wish it'd all come true and I would be here to stay forever

The conifer forest - is a healing grace

Breaking all the chains, sets me free

Wash it all away, leave me only that embrace forever

In my mind

Feelings so pure and bare

I hear the whisperings of the forest

I close my eyes

Memories of good old days

Come alive (come alive) like kaleidoscopic scenes

The conifer forest - is a sacred place

Please don't wake me out of this dream

Wish it'd all come true and I would be here to stay forever

The conifer forest - is a healing grace

Breaking all the chains, sets me free

Wash it all away, leave me only that embrace forever

The conifer forest - is my paradise

Lets me feel the time standing still

Never let me know, I'd just love to live this dream forever

(c) Invisible Chains (Instrumental)

Ruined Romance  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura, Music by A. Nakamura）

Found in the dark a ray of light above

Aphrodite, at last, had smiled on me

Never knew that I'd have such earnest love

Nothing was the same as what it used to be

"I can die for you, dear"

So I thought for the first time

Promises and vows were to mark our prime

The first love was lost as a memory sore

Fires of my youth had it fairly killed

Always needed someone to want me more

With my empty heart still left never filled

"I can die for you, dear "

So I thought till the first blow

I never knew those dark clouds hanging low

Her flowing love once filled my mind

Though it didn't stay for a long, long time

Something would have my destiny twist in a slow trance

Deep grief and pain take o'er my mind

In the heat of the night and the cool moonlight

When the lies reveal their shapes, her "love" ruins this romance

Ever in her life all did go so well

Love was like the flowers she picks from fields

Being called a "belle"; vanity sure swells

No one could her golden vase e'er fill (for real)

Her desires missed the time

Marriage to patch up dismay

Was it just a play?

Was I a prey?

Her flowing love once filled my mind

Though it didn't stay for a long, long time

Something would have my destiny twist in a slow trance

Deep grief and pain take o'er my mind

In the heat of the night and the cool moonlight

When the lies reveal their shapes, her "love" ruins this romance

Her "love" denied me; left alone

Here in this wreckage I roam and moan

Yes I know, for breeding something new, chaos has no chance

Nightmares keep gnawing me but my blindness was swept by her ice-cold eyes

When I see it all so clear, then it ruins this romance

Just my heart's there buried in debris

As a rusted dream

Ere long its shape will cease to be

All my love - to be dust in the wind...?

Secession Suite  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura, Music by A. Nakamura）

(a) Fallen Angel

He's a pig in chains, unseen but heavily binding him

Within the invisible high walls.

He innocently chases bait they cast for him,

Never knowing that a "mincing" fate awaits out of his stall.

The computers now rule the company

With new ideas, new systems,

Strength and inspiration, sorted in binary.

Being jealous of youth, I found myself isolated.

The fallen angel is seeking for his place.

The fallen angel can cry no more.

At last, the silent revolution now began

Beyond the invisible high walls.

"Just leave those 'living fossils' in a wasteland!"

God only knows who deserves the mutations.

Yes, I was fired with not a fair excuse.

They just said they would let me loose.

Two decades in service,

Not a penny from my employers.

Well, them I'm gonna sue!

But (I) got no dime to get me a lawyer.

The fallen angel is dreaming in a nightmare.

The fallen angel has lost all his hope but saves a prayer.

The fallen angel is waiting for the dawn.

The fallen angel can cry no more.

Secession...

Breakout!

(b) Forest in My Mind (instrumental)

The Rover  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura, Music by A. Nakamura）

When another hot night comes around in this old, abandoned downtown,

I walk this street without a name.

Hobos huddle 'round a fire that burns for freaks the funeral pyre.

Hellraisers roar for one-night fame.

In this skid row, well, I hang around without a hope until I find

My good old days just in a swim.

'Nother whisky dream - a senseless ode that fizzles in your soda

Can never drown away your sins, and another cruel day begins.

I'm a-rolling over and over again

Rollin' through these lonely nights.

I'm a rolling stone at the end of this old blind lane.

I'm a-rolling on and over again,

Wond'ring where to see the light.

I'm a rover that dreams in sin in this jungle land.

When another hot night comes around in this old, deserted downtown,

I walk this street with hearts of stone.

And this hole piercing my heart, it feels like a wound that never knows to heal.

It's never filled and left unknown and another rainy night I moan.

I'm a-rolling over and over again.

Can't stand a lonely night

Like the rolling waves wash up on a cliff in vain.

I'm a-rolling over and over again.

Take me through this lonely night.

I'm a rolling stone at the end of this same blind lane.

I'm a-rolling on and over again.

Any way out to see the light?

I'm a rover - I dream in sin in this jungle land.

Into the Confusion (Instrumental, Music by O. Kato）

Silent Decision  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura, Music by A. Nakamura）

Fall comes tingeing all the scenes.

Leaves - turning red and brown - then no more.

Life - I wonder what it means,

How my memories so sweet could all grow sore.

Winter's frosting all the earth.

Snow buries softly my one yearning:

Home - sitting at the hearth

Would I have never had to think of this last journey.

All I have is reality,

Leaves me standing alone in the cold.

Help me now, oh god, help me please...

Silent decision - I'll walk into the dark.

Silent decision - yes, I will go.

Silent decision - I'll walk into the deep

Silent decision - toward the forest in my dreams.

Spring comes thawing o'er the ground.

Life's reborn and sees the world again.

But mine is going now unbound

So I could live the dream within that forest's reign.

All I am is reality,

Keeps me wand'ring alone in the wild.

But the time is near because the summer is here at last.

Silent decision - I'll walk into the dark.

Silent decision - yes, I believe.

Silent decision - I'll walk into the deep.

Silent decision - now beginning is my journey,

Such a long, long journey to the conifer forest.

Dark Summer's Rain  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura / M. Tanamura, Music by A. Nakamura）

Dark summer's rain is falling on the dark midsummer sea.

No one's here but me, I'm walking on a Sunday beach alone.

I can't resist my silent will, now it brought me here. Yes, I can see

A passage leading back to my native soil, to my sweet home.

Now the time has come,

No more help I need in vain.

And when my will is done,

Will I see my parents again?

Dark summer's rain is falling from this dark midsummer sky.

No one knows I'm here - plodding in this damp tranquility.

I can't resist my fate. No other way to go. I can't deny

This I must believe - so I could flee this cruel reality.

And the time has come,

No one says goodbye to me.

And when my will is done,

On the very last journey I will be.

Let me know there's no place left for me to be in this world.

Let me see there's nothing else left for me to do (in this world).

Now I only want to be free in the embraces I once knew

In the conifer (in the conifer) forest in my heaven.

What if I die?

Will my soul just come back to that dear place once again?

My senses grow dim as my body goes deep in (the) midsummer sea...

Mom and Dad, I'm coming back home now.

Dark summer's rain is falling on the dark midsummer sea.

No one's here but me, I'm walking on a Sunday beach alone.

I can't resist my silent will, now it brought me here. Yes, I can see

A passage leading back to my native soil, to my sweet home.

And the time has come,

No one says goodbye to me.

And when my will is done,

On the very last journey I will be.

Let me know there's no place left for me to be in this world.

Let me see there's nothing else left for me to do (in this world).

Now I only want to be free in the embraces I once knew

In the conifer (in the conifer) forest in my heaven.

What if I die?

Will my soul just come back to that dear place once again?

Will eternity hold me and heal me to keep its organic chaos together?

What if I die?

Will my body come back to live in that place once again?

My senses grow dim as my body blends in the midsummer rain...

Mom and Dad, I'm coming back - to you now.