Modern Soul TOKYO Vol.02 Front Cover

Lyric

TOKYO Vein

Kiorhi

Tokyo vein, Tokyo vein

Hold your breath, hold the line

Packed train, packed train

Door light blinks, the platform sighs

Tie knots tight under fluorescent skies

Shoulder to shoulder, city in frames

No room to move, still we stay tame

“Sorry” slips out, soft and plain

Kindness in centimeters on a packed train

No one likes this pressure, true

But we do what we have to do

Minute hands command my day

Yet your small “after you” makes space

In the squeeze, a quiet grace

Running through Tokyo’s vein

Packed train—can’t breathe, still we sway

Packed train—everyday, everyday

Nobody loves it, but we ride the same

We’re the bloodline in Tokyo’s veins

Packed train—tight frame, calm face

Packed train—heartbeats share one space

Hold your breath, don’t break the chain

We feed this city on a packed train

Schedule speaks in digits, sharp

Seconds cut clean like subway art

My phone says “go,” the sign says “wait”

Life in ten-second increments, great

But a hand lifts up a bag for you

A nod says “I see you,” simple, true

Routine turns heavy into light rain

And I feel a little okay on a packed train

In a tunnel, we’re a moving line

Circulation by design

In the hush between the iron grind

I hear the city breathing back

Packed train—can’t breathe, still we sway

Packed train—everyday, everyday

Nobody loves it, but we ride the same

We’re the bloodline in Tokyo’s veins

Packed train—tight frame, calm face

Packed train—heartbeats share one space

Hold your breath, don’t break the chain

We feed this city on a packed train

Yeah—commute couture, suit and a stare

Packed like pixels in the rush-hour square

Tick-tock Tokyo, I’m talkin’ in timecodes

Minutes on my back like heavy payloads

Nobody’s happy in a human zip file

But we still keep rhythm in a tight aisle

Micro-manners, macro-motion

Polite devotion in a crowd-ocean

We don’t wanna be here—facts

But we gotta go—tracks

We’re nutrients in the nocturne, morning bloodstream

Carryin’ fuel for the city’s daydream

Veins in the tunnels, pulse in the rails

Oxygen stories in exhale trails

So I hold my breath and keep my pace

Small kindness, big machine, same space

I learn the sway like a lullaby

A practiced balance, a borrowed sky

Strangers close, yet distance stays

Cold isn’t cruel—it’s care in Tokyo ways

No words, but the message remains

“Don’t fall,” in the angle of bodies and trains

I won’t call this love, no way

But I’m less afraid than yesterday

We’re not choosing, we’re being pulled

By promises, by rent, by rules

Still we make a gentler world

One “excuse me” at a time

Packed train—can’t breathe, still we sway

Packed train—everyday, everyday

Nobody loves it, but we ride the same

We’re the bloodline in Tokyo’s veins

Packed train—tight frame, calm face

Packed train—heartbeats share one space

Hold your breath, don’t break the chain

We feed this city on a packed train

Packed train—Tokyo vein

We feed this city on a packed train

Packed train, packed train

Tokyo vein, Tokyo vein

Hold your breath, hold the line

Packed train, packed train

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  • Kiorhi

    - Kiorhi - Kiorhi is a Tokyo-based DJ/trackmaker, and also works as a data scientist / systems engineer. The "Kiorhi" project explores coexisting with AI in the world ahead and the expansion of human creative expression, aiming to leave a positive message for the future.

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