Before owning this album and reading the lyric sheet, through mishearing and being so much taken with Death Side’s music that the lyrics could take a side role, i always was under the impression the things Ishiya was saying was an ignorable, inconsequential mess of words that sound cool. But no, his is some really profound, unique stuff. What i heard as “Look in the mirror, you will find fear,” turned out to be “Look into the mirror, you’ll never find your real figure,” and oh my this is really something else. The whole album is strangely deep like that. There is a distinct, creative, knotted, intense mind behind these words, now doubling my appreciation of the band. And that’s just the English lyrics i can understand. A side note on the dumbness of my prejudging the quality of Ishiya’s lyrics based only on what he sings in English. Now i’m left to wonder how incredible those words in his native tongue are.
Adding Machine 