Owen Pallett - I'm Afraid Of Japan

Art: Terra Branford by Yoshitaka Amano
Song: I'm Afraid Of Japan
Artist: Owen Pallett / Final Fantasy
Album: He Poos Clouds

Lyrics:

Nippon, won't you take me into your arms and make me
Into a sergeant, emboldened and enlargened
For some the spell was shafted, but I am in your sway
Yes, I am still enchanted by the ways of yesterday

To the public park I walk with my new wife
And in the summer heat, I lose my head
I tell her that the army needs a modus operandi
I tell her where I really went that evening in Chelsea
I tell her I don't think I'll last another single night
She says, Yeah, right

If I do it with an ice pick, will I come back as a jock?
If I fast until starvation will I be born again a Christian?
I hear that death by burning means returning as a girl
But only by seppuku can I retain my virtue

But all my efforts have only made
An army of greedy gays
Will no one read The Sound Of Waves?
Oh, oh, I am afraid.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• I'm
• Afraid
• Of
• Japan
• Owen
• Pallett
• Final
• Fantasy

[Akashatattva]

no no no

=( I´m afraid of you

the girl is blond !

perhaps if she was japanise...

well, the song is wonderful and I love Owen Pallett

[SusumiCHAN]

Oh dear. You shouldn't be afraid of me. .. .. I think.

Mmm, but the picture is drawn by Yoshitaka Amano, and he's japanese.

[OMGitsaBLAST]

that terra portrait is breath-taking

[sosogood]

Haha, wow.

(Thanks for posting this)

[CrimsonToAzure]

I feel like when I read the lyrics while listening it becomes a very powerful song

[Toduro27]

ff vi :)

[maikeru619]

is this guy a joke? cuz this song is seriously a laugh riot

[rouronizen]

@SusumiCHAN and he is the main illustrator of final fantasy series, kind of clever the picture ^^

[playedescapade]

i weep for tarnes1989.

[tarmes1989]

this is fucking the weirdest shit i've ever heard. whoever made this is reallllyyyy boring.

[Akashatattva]

@FFnerd27 -Well, i just saw the FF movies, i thought that is not important  the girl. For me, the perfect picture would be a samurai or a geisha...

[FFnerd27]

@Akashatattva Well...if you know the Japanese video game, Final Fantasy, you would see that this girl was in Final Fantasy V, Terra Branford

hmm...Mostly all of these songs have a picture from Final Fantasy.

I think it was genius to do that

[SHINRAbrat]

I love this song so much; definitely one of my favorites from any FF OST. I find this song, I dunno.. haunting in the most brilliant fashion. I love it. c:

[Kylork]

I love how Owen uses osbscure numbers of measures throughout the song.