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MAKOTO

One word upon my back

Where I was born?

I couldn't care less

Does wearing a sword

Make you samurai?

Does a family name

Make you samurai?

Hell no

If pride means

You never run

If Makoto means

You never bend

Raise that banner

In the winds of Mibu

Cut away

The nameless yesterday

MAKOTO

One word upon my back

A samurai

Isn't something you're born as

You live

And become one

Came all the way

From Bushu to Kyoto

No family name

Not a coin to spare

All I had

Was a blade

And a fool's pride

That's more than enough

If you ask me

"Country samurai"

Go ahead

Laugh while you can

Tomorrow in Kyoto

With that same mouth

You'll be whispering

The name of Mibu

One cup of sake

Back at the quarters

Plenty of reasons

To start a fight

Never learned much

About manners

But I can't stand

A crooked deal

Let the noble samurai

Look down on us

We'll become samurai

Our own damn way

Don't need permission

From anyone

The way I live

Is license enough

Throw on

That pale-blue haori

Kyoto's night wind

Feels just right

Clear the road

Samurai

The fools of Mibu

Are coming through

MAKOTO

One word upon my back

Where I was born?

I couldn't care less

Does wearing a sword

Make you samurai?

Does a family name

Make you samurai?

Hell no

If pride means

You never run

If Makoto means

You never bend

Raise that banner

In the winds of Mibu

Cut away

The nameless yesterday

MAKOTO

One word upon my back

A samurai

Isn't something you're born as

You live

And become one

Evening in Sanjo

The temple bells ring

Something in the alleys

Smells like trouble

"Wolves of Mibu"?

Sounds damn good

To me

Better a wolf

Than somebody's dog

Draw or don't draw

That's up to you

But once it's drawn

There's no crying now

If you value your life

Clear the road

We didn't come here

To play

Makoto

Ain't decoration

If all it does

Is look pretty

Throw it away

Covered in mud

Bathed in blood

Still we carry

That single word

Yesterday's farmers

Yesterday's ronin

Now all of Kyoto

Turns to look

We never wanted

A famous name

All we wanted

Was a place

To stand as samurai

High rank

Low rank

What a joke

Brag about your bloodline

At the sake house

Don't like

A farmer with a sword?

Then come say it

To my face

One step

Two steps

You're inside my reach

There won't be

A third

One pale-blue flash

The wind screams

And the only word

Left standing—

MAKOTO

No one handed me

The name samurai

You don't become one

By bowing your head

Laugh at me

Hate me

I don't care

As long as

I don't bend myself

From Mibu

To Kyoto

From Kyoto—

Who knows

How far we'll go

We'll go

As far as we can

Tomorrow

Brings another wind

The times are changing?

Couldn't care less

If I run tonight

The man I am tonight

Will laugh at me

For the rest

Of my life

So—

Step forward

MAKOTO

One word upon my back

Where I was born?

I couldn't care less

Does wearing a sword

Make you samurai?

Does a family name

Make you samurai?

Hell no

If pride means

You never run

If Makoto means

You never bend

Raise that banner

In the winds of Mibu

Cut away

The nameless yesterday

MAKOTO

One word upon my back

A samurai

Isn't something you're born as

You live

And become one

Born a farmer?

Fine by me

Country boy?

Even better

Wolf of Mibu?

That one

Ain't bad

With nothing but Makoto—

We march