Dari
PERFORMING ARTISTS
DaJobsite
Other Instrument
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kevin Shimokawa
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
DaJobsite
Producer
Lirik
Departure sealed with zippers and doubt
A coat packed tight woven inside-out
Buttons fastened with silent intent
The kind of threads that never meant consent
The plane ascends grief tucked in seams
Borderlines blur like half-held dreams
A passport stamped with what won't last
A name still stitched to the distant past
A breath between what's gone and next
A stillness softer than regret
Before the weight can pull me back
A moment opens faint and cracked
Leaving garments where I've been
All regrets through which I've lived
Fabric fragments of my soul
Left behind by letting go
Lighter steps with each release
Traveling further finding peace
Take this pain and fade to black
It's everything that's not brought back
In Paris a scarf laid across the sill
Still scented faintly with winter's will
Let the wind lift what once consoled
No warmth remained just threads grown old
Florence unbuckled the posture boots
Made for standing not for truths
A blouse clung soft with apologies past
Left behind in a room that asked no past
No vow remains no voice repeats
Just shadowless sound in foreign streets
Let stillness speak where names collapse
And carry forward what's detached
Garments shed in foreign light
Once held tight through sleepless nights
Thread by thread I come undone
A softer self in rising sun
Lighter steps with each release
Traveling further nearing peace
Leave the weight don't trace the track
It's everything that's not brought back
Each piece of clothing I'm letting go
left behind what I don't need to show
In Paris the coat too full of pride
Dropped it quiet stepped outside
In Florence a blouse still warm with shame
Hung it loose forgot the name
In Berlin gloves fell like fear
Didn't reach just disappeared
In Lisbon a scarf in wind and grief
Let it fly I felt relief
Each thread stayed where I had been
What held me once won't hold again
Lisbon a scarf folded on a wall
Witness to one last silent fall
It fluttered once then found the sea
Carried farther than memory
The final coat unwrapped with grace
No longer armor just empty space
Steps turned inland light and spare
Nothing worn but something there
No need to name the parts released
No need to mourn the slow decrease
What's gone became the path not lack
A soul revealed by what pulls back
Leaving garments where I've been
Wounds once worn beneath the skin
Fabric fragments of the soul
Loosened now by letting go
Lighter steps with each release
Traveling still but laced with peace
No need to turn no urge to track
It's everything that's not brought back
Written by: Kevin Shimokawa
