The Adult Code

おとなの掟 - 椎名林檎 (しいな りんご)

Written by：椎名林檎

Sighs in the blackest black abiding

As soon as one dies one is rising

With the night so dark and cold

The wishes I make are swallowed up and hidden away

Breath of the whitest white is

What I most with to say down deep now inside

Can a voice so numb and cold have some song to sing

It could be false or reality

The things I like or hate or things I want to gain

Whatever's feeling good is what my lines would say

For setting off the black from white it'd work perfectly

Though like a chant of ruination it'd be

Why did I think that since

I'd studied the latest schoolbook I'd know clearly

What's right from what's wrong and which is which one

That I could choose I could really know

I live according to stage-right stage-left exit

Improvisation's not been in my bag of tricks

So much of what I want to say pours out noisily

But never when you're not here alone with me

What I know that I hold in my hands I want to set free

Think of how much lighter you and I would feel then

Every word every wall every curse

And sparing nothing strip it

Take it all away to once again see eye to eye

The things I like or hate or things I want expect

Though if I let them out I think what happens next

Well setting off the white from black is fearful indeed

It's even more so when you live honestly

This life is long so long the world is wide I say

And when we've freedom won it all becomes one gray

Yes happiness unhappiness it's only the heart

That knows no quietude that makes itself known

While an adult can keep a secret alone