＜ Song List＞

1. Return from the Void

2. Foretell Stone

3. Runaway Train to the Paradise

4. Sanctuary Seeker

5. Blind Dragon

6. Destiny Flight

7. Island of Pain

8. The Mission ~The King’s Will~

9. Godian’s Son Suite

     (a) Theme from “Schmorl”

      (b) Another Fallen Angel

＜ Credits ＞

THYNK∞F are ;

Masahiro "Manzo" Takeuchi : Keyboards

Yuichi Herai : Bass

Hiroshi Yamashita : Drums

Akihisa Nakamura : Vocals, Keyboards

Osamu Kato : Guitars

Masatoshi Fujita : Vocals, Guitars

Guest Musicians ;

Goda : Vocals (Track 3, 4, 5, 6, 9)

The Funkastic Orchestra (Track 2, 3)

   Ginji Ibushi – Saxophone

   Atsushi Ogino - Trombone

   Takuya Ando – Trumpet

Produced by THYNK∞F

All tracks arranged by THYNK∞F (except track 1 arranged by M. Takeuchi / A. Nakamura)

Horn arrangement by Ginji Ibushi (The Funkastic Orchestra), Akihisa Nakamura

Lyrics advised by Hiroki Wakamatsu, Yuko Kobayashi

Cover design and illustration by Masahiro "Manzo" Takeuchi

Cover photograph by Akihisa Nakamura

Concept and story of “Tales from the Conifer Forest” by Akihisa Nakamura

Recorded at Fuefuki Studio, Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017

Mixed at Studio D-Sound

Engineered by Dani, Akihisa Nakamura

Mastered by Dani

Special thanks to :

Yutaka "Captain Ahab" Masuda, Yoshihide "KAME" Akiyama (Masheen Messiah), Tatsuo Inoue (Masheen Messiah), Yukie Kimoto (Silver Elephant), Tatsuya Yamazaki (disk union), Uozu buried forest museum, all of our families, and YOU !!

＜ Lyrics ＞

Foretell Stone (Lyrics & Music by A. Nakamura)

A fallen angel came back to life from an abyss of the dead

The destiny brought me back to this world, called "The Hell"

It's the revelation of God, "Still never die"

This suffering possess me again

Tell me please, the foretell stone

I’ll entrust my destiny to this stone

The chosen one with the foretell stone

You can just get the miracle

A fallen angel pray to the stone luminescing with seven colors

The destiny shows me what I can do to heal my soul

Is it a nightmare or not, God only knows

And the stone has begun to shine again

Tell me please, the foretell stone / If I’ll reach there, everything

Tell me please, the foretell stone / I’ll entrust my destiny to this stone

I only believe in my destiny, oh yes / lead me to the paradise

Runaway Train To The Paradise (Lyrics & Music by A. Nakamura)

to run away, no place to hide

to dream of my healing place

When the stone starts to shine, the train departs from an ...

I still believe my dream / somehow

waiting for the runaway train

Return to myself, I got on the train

A ticket in my hand, Yes, yeah, I’m gonna go!

With my dream and hope, it's running on the railway

I just got a “Great luck” by the name of God

where am I going from now

the way to go to the paradise

When the stone shines again, the train will surely arrive at ...

I'll bury the past, steal away!

Don’t wanna bind myself in this chains

I say "Believe my destiny

All is led to the paradise by the runaway train

Sanctuary Seeker (Lyrics & Music by A. Nakamura)

Go up to the hills Go down to the valley of death

Go through the wood and the train keeps on running through

Pass across the lake Pass across the river

Pass through the old tunnel and the train keeps on running through

But the forest is not on the map

So I won’t give up and never look back

Fear no evil Hide the sorrow behind

I'll see something else, so I will get the great chance

The forest is the place I've been dreaming of

So I must find out my Jerusalem

But the forest is not on the map

So I won't give up and never look back

'Till I reach there I’ll never say die

"Where is my Jerusalem?"

Blind Dragon  (Lyrics by A. Nakamura, Music by A. Nakamura, O. Kato)

Blind dragon takes me far away and flies high up into the sky

Blind dragon leads me to the conifer forest, so a far cry

Blind dragon treats me as a chosen one that takes back the glory again

Blind dragon leads me to the paradise without chains, without pains

There is a dark and cold marsh in the weird jungle

When it shines to seven colors, here he comes now

The dragon came out suddenly with blinding and dazzling flash

"A sinful God, Godian's son has changed me into such a dragon

by his wicked magic", What a wicked magic

There is a strange and eerie marsh in the no man's land

A fishy smell all over the place, they say, you'll never come back again

A dragon came out in the fog with a big big noise, huge column of water

"A betrayer, Godian's son had robbed me of my both eyeballs

The stone begins to shine and the time has come

"Give me back my stone right now!, That's one of my eyes"

"Yes! the forest will be back ‘cos I'm the real prince myself"

"Let's join force together and fight against Godian's son, Schmorl"

The stone begins to show about the healing place

Destiny Flight (Lyrics by A. Nakamura, Music by O. Kato)

The dragon takes me by a destiny flight

holds me tight, we fly by night

The shining stone has second sight

tonight’s the night, shining bright

The dragon leads me to the healing site

so excite, it's all right

Step in a new world with delight

our destiny flight will be all right

The destiny flight...

The Island of Pain (Lyrics & Music by A. Nakamura)

She's just confined in the island of pain

She's lonely now, 'cos her daddy the king’s been killed

She’s been waiting for the daybreak, but that's the last straw!

And she found out the key for the revival of kingdom

the same old songs, for a long long time

Hey hey, little princess, you said "don't let me down"

Hey hey, little darling, I said "don't cry any more?"

Soon the shining stone will show us the way

from the destiny, from the dark in the island of pain?

from the reality, to escape from this island of pain?

Hey hey, little princess, I said "I don't let you down"

Hey hey, little darling, I said "It won't be long"

The one eye dragon will knock down Schmorl

The Mission ~The King’s Will~ (Lyrics by A. Nakamura, Music by K. Sugiyama)

I remember the word of dear late father, the greatest king

"The forest lives on forever as long as our love remains"

But no one can imagine this catastrophe...

And I'll talk to the shooting star now

I swear, I'll never shed tears, I'm the chosen one

to deliver the kingdom form the evil chains

And If I come back to the forest, the miracle will happen without fail again

Even though I've been limited in this isolated island

Someday I shall achieve his will to take back the kingdom of a conifer strain

I'll never forget his regret of losing the paradise

The forest has been forever sealed by the wicked magic

I can hear the cry of the king’s soul

And I'm waiting for a premonition of the shining foretell stone now

I swore, I'll never shed tears

I'm the chosen one to defend the forest against the bane

And when I can be healed from the forest, all of my dream will come true without fail again

Even if I die crumble, the forest should remain

Someday I must achieve his will to prosper the happy Kingdom once again

When I close my eyes, I still can see the beautiful forest

I wanna be healed by the forest's rain

And if I come back to the forest, the miracle will happen without fail again

Even though I'm been limited in this isolated island now

And when I can be healed from the forest, all of my dream will come true without fail again

Even if I die crumble, the forest should remain, oh yes

Now I must achieve his will to take the peace back to the forest again

Goodman Son Suite  (Lyrics & Music by A. Nakamura)

(a) The Theme from "Schmorl" 

Like father like son, they say, but may not be always so

Son's often poor when father's too great

No one knows it's the vicious circle of the obscurity

Here is such an example

" The king treated me bad" "I just had to murder her dad"

The beautiful forest meets an unexpected guest

All treasures are mine, My power is forever

Someday, I'll conquer this nation I'll never say never

There are lots of things you want

But the only one thing you want most is difficult to get all the more

The girl you love most may not often love you most

This is just an evenful life

It's quite simple

"Daddy made me sad with his raving mad words"

"The demon starts living inside me and laughs at me"

Dear little princess is mine, My love is forever

Someday, I'll conquer her body and soul, Girl, never say never...

It’s good to have a high ideal

But the excessive greed makes you go insane and wastes you,

no self-control

No one knows it's the beginning of the ordeal

He wonders in the labyrinth searching for the invisible goal

"Daddy, don't feel bad" "I couldn't but expel you"

The healing careless changes into a distress

I'm the king now I’m Schmorl

Everything is mine Forever

I'm the king now I’m Schmorl

I'll conquer this world Never say never

I'm the king now I’m Schmorl

She is mine soon Forever

I'm the king now I’m Schmorl

I'll conquer her soon Never say never

I'm the king now I’m Schmorl

Everything is mine Forever

People follow me People obey me

I'm the dictator! I’ll never say never again

(b) Another Fallen Angel

Remember your babyhood memories

You were so expected with full love

And the time goes by and it slipped from your mind

Remember your childhood memories

You were still in the sunny side in your life

And the time goes by and you changed your mind

living inside you

can't come back to the sky

Remember your adolescent memories

Some lost loves, some failures and griefs

And you had known you are incompetent man

Remember the forest days

Some passion and greed, some plots against kingdom in sinful ways

And you had became a hardened man

living inside you

can't come back

living inside you

can't come back to heaven nor hell...