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Lyric

What Is Beauty

KIRI

美しさとは何か

What is beauty

美しさとは何か

Cherry blossoms falling (Falling)

Beautiful because they die (They die)

Blade catching the moonlight (Moonlight)

Beautiful against the sky (The sky)

I was told that beauty (Beauty)

Lives in what is brief (Is brief)

Everything that's precious (Precious)

Balanced on the edge of grief (Of grief)

You call the blade beautiful

I call it what it is

A tool that ends the story

Of everything that lives

Beauty is a trick now

The living tell themselves

To make the short time sweeter

Before it overwhelms

What is beauty

散るから美しい

What is beauty

終わるから輝く

The blade the blossom

刃も花も同じ

What is beauty

消えるものだけが美しい

But what about the moment (Moment)

When the blade first sings (First sings)

When the shamisen cuts through (Cuts through)

And the whole night rings (Night rings)

Is that not beautiful (Beautiful)

Even if it ends (If it ends)

Is the flash not worth it (Worth it)

Even if it bends (If it bends)

Now you ask the question

That I asked before I fell

The moment is the beauty

Not the story we tell

I searched for lasting beauty

Something permanent and true

The only thing I found was

The moment I had you

What is beauty

散るから美しい

What is beauty

終わるから輝く

The blade the blossom

刃も花も同じ

What is beauty

消えるものだけが美しい

The mission

The memory

The blade

The silence after

The shadow

The bones that remain

The moment

Yes

The moment

What is beauty

散るから美しい

What is beauty

終わるから輝く

The blade the blossom

刃も花も同じ

What is beauty

この瞬間だけが美しい

...this moment

...この瞬間

  • Lyricist

    KIRI

  • Composer

    KIRI

  • Producer

    KIRI

  • Vocals

    KIRI

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The Dialogue is the fourth album from KIRI,
a kunoichi warrior and Japanese trap artist
under Shinobi Sound.

Ten tracks. Ten conversations between the living and the dead.

KIRI encounters a skeleton warrior -
a figure who has witnessed every life,
every battle, every last breath.
What follows is not a fight.
It is a dialogue.
About why we fight. About what we fear.
About what remains when everything else is gone.

Blending Japanese trap, heavy 808 bass,
traditional instruments - shamisen, koto, shakuhachi, taiko -
with bilingual lyrics that move between English and Japanese,
The Dialogue is a meditation on life, death,
and the razor's edge between them.

From first meeting to farewell,
nothing is resolved easily.
But something is understood.

© 2026 KIRI / Shinobi Sound

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  • KIRI

    KIRI is a Japanese AI music artist blending the deadly elegance of the kunoichi with modern Trap & Bass. Heavy shamisen, thundering taiko, and crushing 808 bass lines form the sonic world of Shinobi Sound, a place where shadow, blade, and silence converge. Born in darkness. Gone before you blink.

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