ナイトメア Nightmare - 惰性ブギー Dasei Boogie (English translation and lyrics)

Song name: 惰性ブギー Dasei Boogie (The boogie of a creature of habit)
Album: best tracks 2000-2005 [ćlowns] (2016) (Original year of release: 2005)
Composition: Sakito
Lyrics: Sakito
Track no: 13 (CD2)

Hey guys! Off we go with yet another classic à la Sakito and this one's a real treat in all the right ways!

This song is arguably one of their greatest live performances ever imo, due to its addictive ability to make you move your body. I have so many fond memories of watching live performances of this song: Sakito's knee-slide during the solo, him and YOMI singing into the same microphone, the whole "Sakito doko" moment during their 10th anniversary live show (if I'm not misremembering)... The list goes on and on and yet, contrary to its dance-y beat, the lyrics are very somber—a story about finding love online and all the complications that comes with it, and also about addiction to the internet which is more relevant today than it ever has been.

Going into the lyrics we have the most notable part being the one looping with "Kimi ha doko" (Where did you go?). You'll see in the lyrics that the kanji switches randomly throughout the part (also adding romaji, katakana and hiragana) but they do read as "Kimi ha doko" all the way through. It's almost like when you try to open a text file in a program that doesn't support said text file and you just get a lot of random characters when the program tries to fill in the gaps, right? This to me symbolizes Sakito's fickle attempts at looking through every program and every text file he could to find the person he was looking for, which is also why the voice distorts in some segments. What do you guys think?

Alright, I hope you put your dancing shoes on, crank the volume up and shake your way into the night with this amazing song! See you in the next one!