Lyric

Can you quickly describe your strengths and weaknesses? Or can you smoothly tell the story of your life to someone you meet for the first time?
C.Karter, an artist, says that he is good at turning his shortcomings and failures into funny stories, and using them as communication tools with complete strangers.
However, he has never recorded his guilty past or "true" failures to the extent that he could say that he never wrote songs about them, much less talked about them with others.
After three years of living in Hanoi, Vietnam, a city with a different atmosphere from Ho Chi Minh City, where he spent his youth, he did not return to Tokyo, but instead lived in the Kyushu region of Japan. There he was exposed to the lifestyle of living without decorating himself that he had gained from living abroad.
He did not fit in at junior high school and had trouble with his homeroom teacher. He also had trouble at the education center, a so-called "mild rehabilitation facility" for children who refused compulsory education, where he had to deal with violence and other problems that he could not add to. Eventually, C.Karter was visited to go to a psychiatric hospital in the same prefecture, where he was given psychotropic medication, and had to go for regular checkups and blood draws.
At that time, C.Karter enjoyed reading introductory psychology books, exchanging information on various music and watching comedy DVDs with his friends at the education center, free space at the Museum of Contemporary Art where he and his friends accumulated after returning from the education center, and listening to NIRVANA and Blue Hearts in the car driven by his mother.
Gradually, he became obsessed with music to an unusual degree. He became obsessed with music to such an extent that even the term "genre-bound" seemed too easy to describe.
Then, C. Karter saw a light.
"I can express even this hopelessly over life through music."
He said.
When he was in Vietnam, his dreams were to become a comedian and a novelist. While living in Vietnam, he learned to play the guitar from a friend named Tutu, who was three years older than him, and learned to enjoy music.
The boy C.Karter thought, "I could sing.
"I could sing. Now I just need the experience to convince people."
And when he began to feel that way, he returned to Tokyo...