Modern Soul TOKYO Vol.03 Front Cover

Lyric

Alive

Kiorhi

Born into borrowed rules

Wearing someone else’s “cool”

I smiled like “that’s just life”

While my own pulse stayed mute

Quiet heat, loud mind

Passion and the madness, in time

Quiet heat, loud mind

I don’t chase it, I align

Quiet heat, loud mind

If you feel it, you’ll know the sign

Quiet heat, loud mind

In this fire, I feel alive

Woke up in a script I never signed, yeah

Default settings in my spine, yeah

“Be realistic” like a leash on the neck

I played polite, kept it neat, kept it fine, yeah

Same faces, same lanes, same “right way”

Life like a hallway, white paint, no doorway

Then I heard a small drum in the floorboard

Not a shout—more a hum I couldn’t ignore, boy

It wasn’t “dream big,” it was “do it again”

A tiny itch turned into truth in my hands

Kinda scary how a habit becomes a lamp

When you stop asking “why” and you just advance

Now I guard that spark like a last name

Feed it silence, watch it grow past shame

If they call it crazy, I don’t get offended

I just got invited to my own new ending

I don’t preach, I don’t pose

I keep my gold under my coat

But the moment it starts to glow

I can’t pretend I don’t know

Quiet heat, loud mind

Passion and the madness, in time

Quiet heat, loud mind

I don’t chase it, I align

Quiet heat, loud mind

If you feel it, you’ll know the sign

Quiet heat, loud mind

In this fire, I feel alive

Found it in the “just one more”

In the late-night, closed-door

In the loop of a simple thing

That I couldn’t quit, couldn’t ignore

I didn’t notice—so subtle

Like jazz on a side street shuffle

But people said “why you doing that?”

And that question lit my fuel, no trouble

“Girl, what are you on?” — I smiled

Not shame, that’s a green light

That’s a crack in the wall of the normal

That’s a chance to live in my real life

It’s not fireworks, it’s focus

A calm blade, clean motion

A weird little joy that repeats

Till it turns into ocean

So I stack that “madness” neatly

In the pocket of my heartbeat, deeply

If they want my heat, they can’t steal it

I don’t show it—still they feel it

If you never had a name for it

That doesn’t mean it’s not there

If it keeps you coming back to it

That’s a signal in the air

Take your match, don’t ask permission

Don’t let the room choose your vision

Add one more log to the fever

Careful calm, wild precision

I don’t force my faith on nobody

No sermon, no “look at me” hobby

I keep it private like ink in my veins

But it drives me, it moves my body

Mad focus, math focus

Minutes turn into galaxies—stacked, lotus

They see “obsession,” I see a compass

Pointing dead-center at what my soul chose

Fuel up the strange, keep it tasteful

Classy chaos, mind stable

Jazz swing with a steel-toe step

Soft smile but the work stay fatal

And if you relate, no pressure

Just step in the light, no lecture

We can dance in the corner together

Quiet heat, loud mind, no extra

Quiet heat, loud mind

Passion and the madness, in time

Quiet heat, loud mind

I don’t chase it, I align

Quiet heat, loud mind

If you feel it, you’ll know the sign

Quiet heat, loud mind

In this fire, I feel alive

Born into borrowed rules, I cut the string

Found a small “can’t stop” and made it sing

If they say “what you doing?” I say “watch”

Add more wood to the fire—let it ring

Quiet heat, loud mind

Quiet heat, loud mind

Quiet heat, loud mind

In this fire, I feel alive

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    - 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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