Romancing The Shogunate

Song: Romancing The Shogunate
Album: Edo

Artist: Toussaint Morrison

Written by: Toussaint Morrison

Released June 24, 2014

ref: https://toussaintmorrison.bandcamp.com/track/romancing-the-shogunate

We fought a long winter,

I can’t tell ya I don’t have any scars

The cabin fever stole the light out of my eyes

Now I see in the dark

As we travel into Spring, tell me now

Could you be my Jin?

And I’ll be Foo, walkin’ round Edo

With you

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Now, I’ma only tell’em once to keep their green eyes off me

After that I can only let the sword do the talkin’

Homie, you know this blade cost me

Two hot grueling summers of an apprenticeship to Musashi

Yeah, you smirkin’ like it’s simple

But tell me have you seen all 300 stairs outside of the temple?

Try runnin’ all’a dat at dawn between breakfast

And sparrin’ with your classmates to see who gets first dibs

Mmhmm, I saw her put it on Haomaru San

For double-dippin’ on the Takuwan

Back when me and Jubei we’re still rockin Gakurans

Stick fightin’ for the school day, underneath that Tokugawa Sun

I crushed on her for a few weeks that summer

Until my focus drifted so much I had to cover my heart

And put the sword first

But lookin’ back- Man, I wish I would’ve told her.

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Chorus

Hold up,

Whattaya think

Of me and you takin’ a long walk

Down to the bridge by the creek where the birds sing to the wind thru the trees

On and on

Morning and after dark

We could gone

Makin’ a break together ‘til we reached the shore

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Sensei told me to get my mind right

Or he’ll get it right for me. Hell, I’d rather die twice.

I’ve seen that old man take out a shinobi so fast with no hands

You’d think him and death were close kin

Couldn’t tell if he was serious or dead pan

When he said her father secretly totes the Number 2 Head Band

I mean, I’d seen beef like Ken & Ryu

But this was on some other ish, like Galford & Hanzou

Family names fightin’ for family gain

And a few more paragraphs on a history books page

All in all, I dug her, but she wudn’t worth the risk

I brought it up with Jubei, he said, “Homie, join me on this pilgrimage”

A sucker for adventure, I went with it.

We planned to journey for a few years, then join the shogunate

A different man now, a decade later

Ran into her again, I didn’t wait, I said.

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Bridge

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Chorus