my room is at the end of this corridor
there are a lot of things in my room
but my room key is missing
i don’t know where it is
i don’t know
when i entered my room alone
my room is at the end of this corridor
there are a lot of things in my room
but my room key is missing
i don’t know where it is
i don’t know
when i entered my room alone
it is the best to break through the door
A song by bluebeard.
Bluebeard was a Japanese emotional rock band, active around the early 2000s. The band's music had a likeness to the emotional rock scene happening in the States: Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, Texas is the Reason (etc), and bluebeard carved out an identity for themselves in the indie music scene in Tokyo. (Emotional Rock, or emo rock, is the same genre as the more popular American Football.) In a rare interview, it became known that bluebeard intended for their music to be at the same level as the bands of their influence, and worked hard to do so, so they could be enjoyed by a wider audience, including the States.
Their genius showed: in 2015 the band had a year-long reunion, much like American Football and Mineral (etc) at that time, which was met with packed venues. Just like American Football, the band had only released one full length album.
Yoshikazu Takahashi is one of the brains behind the music of the critically acclaimed bluebeard, and he is the voice behind the lyrics. At writing it, he was likely around the age of 19. It can be a fascination for Japanese songwriters to use the English language when they write and sing their songs. Like telling your most intimate lines to an audience, and they won't fully understand what you mean, only subject matter: you could say whatever you want.
If you're talking about the great emotional rock bands that make up that era: listen to Bluebeard, who saw the scene as it was happening in the States, and emulated what they heard and saw, with soul. Because of the truth behind their lyrics, the true genius of their music's composition, their mentoring from a British punk band whom Yoshikazu Takahashi idolised (and likely others), and Yoshikazu's own soulful, renegade voice: bluebeard bleeds that era of emotional rock. It has captured it's soul, and in my opinion sits among its 'influences' as one of the greatest emotional rock bands of all time. This would ring true to their fans, of Yoshikazu and his later band: AS MEIAS, who know of his legendary artistry.
