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Lyric

Regret

KIRI

後悔

...regret

There was a night I had a choice and I chose the blade

Someone behind me calling out and I didn't stay

Mission complete — the report was clean the numbers right

But I still hear that voice sometimes at 3am at night

守れたはずだった

I knew it then

I chose to look away

I chose the mission

そして今も、ここにいる

I've held a thousand warriors at the very end

Every single one of them had something left undone

Not the missions not the targets not the blood and war

The small things — 言葉ひとつ

A door they didn't open

A name they didn't say out loud

Before the silence came

Regret is never the big things

It's always

Always the small ones

後悔が残る、名前もなく

No grave for the things we left behind

後悔が残る、消えないまま

Some wounds don't bleed but they don't heal

We made our choices — 引き返せない

We ran so fast we forgot to feel

後悔だけが

The most honest thing

We ever carry

I told myself that feeling nothing made me strong

I told myself the mission was where I belong

But strength that costs you everything

Isn't strength at all

それは鎧じゃない

It's just another wall

And walls don't grieve

And walls don't ask

And walls don't wake up at 3am

Hearing someone's name

You think I'm immune to this

Because the bones don't show

でも私にも、あった

A life before the dark

A choice I made that hollowed out

The last remaining part

I don't collect the dead because

I have no other role

後悔が私をここに縛った

Regret became my only home

Even I

Couldn't outrun

The small things

後悔が残る、名前もなく

No grave for the things we left behind

後悔が残る、消えないまま

Some wounds don't bleed but they don't heal

We made our choices — 引き返せない

We ran so fast we forgot to feel

後悔だけが

The most honest thing

We ever carry

お前も後悔してるのか

Why do you think

I'm still here talking to you

Instead of just

Taking you

...そうか

そうだ

後悔が残る、でも

It means we had something worth losing

後悔が残る、だから

It means we were here

We made our choices — それでいい

The wound is proof that something was real

後悔だけが

The most human thing

We ever carry

また走る

後悔を抱えて

I know

I'll be here

When you stop

  • 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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