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Track: Picture Perfect
Artist: Monkey Majik
Album: Picture Perfect

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Name: Monkey Majik
Spotify Genres: j-pop, anime
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Japanese-Canadian group, led by brothers [a=Maynard Plant] and [a=Blaise Plant]. Formed in 2000 in Sendai, Japan, when Maynard was an Assistant Language Teacher. Maynard and Blaise Plant are musical brothers from Ottawa who front the celebrated rock group MONKEY MAJIK, a four-piece hybrid rock band comprised of Maynard and Blaise (vocals and guitars) along with their Japanese bandmates, Tax (drums) and Dick (bass). Since their major release through binyl records in 2006, their music has been used widely for television, film and commercials. They have also provided songs to notable J-pop stars such as SMAP and Every Little Thing. MONKEY MAJIK’s approach to music reflects the group’s members, with Japanese and English flowing naturally together through their lyrics, and melodies characterised by a universality which evokes emotions and memories in its listeners. They are a unique group producing “free and borderless” music that defies categorization. MONKEY MAJIK’s second single “Around the World” was an explosive hit and used as the opening theme to the Fuji Television drama Journey to the West. Another hit “Sora wa marude” was used for a popular commercial and established them firmly as artists. Appointed Special Ambassadors in 2008 to promote the 80th Anniversary of Canada-Japan relations, they had the honour the following year of performing in front of Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan in Ottawa. In January 2011, MONKEY MAJIK was appointed Goodwill and Tourism Ambassadors for the Tohoku region of Japan. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami they organized a Tohoku restoration project called “SendAi” (“Send Love”). They held their third “SendAi” charity concert in December 2012, and continue to support the recovery efforts of the area. In 2015 MONKEY MAJIK celebrated their 15th anniversary by performing for the first time at Tokyo’s Budokan in front of 8,000 fans. In October of the same year, they released an album titled, MONKEY MAJIK BEST – A.RI.GA.TO – a collection of their best songs. In March 2016, they released their latest album Southview and have been on a nationwide tour.

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Release: Monkey Majik + m-flo - Picture Perfect
Year: 2007
Genres: Electronic, Pop
Styles: J-pop

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LYRICS

All the time that you were standing by my side
She's that picture perfect kind
I can't believe I was so blind
Do you remember the time
You know I stepped across that line
I made you cry and that's my crime
I wish that I could just rewind

It's the evening, and you've been complaining
About our situation and all my deceiving
I know that everything is going slow
And if you want to feel better
I can tell you that it's going to be great
Yeah it's going to be good
Oh! But I would be lying to you

But these days, I'm changing
Meeting new faces
Now how am I supposed to be?
My feelings for you seem to be changing
Looking back, don't look back on me

(Chorus)

いなくてもいい I wanted to be FREE
いなくなってもいい I wanted her to LEAVE
It's kind of hard to see... when the WORLD tunnel-visioned me
求めてた愛の形
They say BELIEVE in what you can't SEE
でも周りの CANDY が SWEET で HARD to THINK
頭では COMPREHEND しても行動に移せん
My eyes on the 理屈, the TRUTH's here LISTEN
CHASE しても CHASE しても things keep FLEETING
変な夢見てた I must have been SLEEPING
遠くさまよう前に近くを SEEK IT
よく見てみれば 心には BEACON
Of LIGHT 射して、探してた thing's HERE
思ったより NEAR, close to your HEMISPHERE
今では CLEAR 20/20 cuz I'mma SHARE
全て and I don't CARE if they think I'm WEIRD
There there nobody thinks you're weird
Ya see, I've been through it all before

And the same thing happened to me
きにしない "wounds heal with time"
But in the meanwhile...
I'll show you what I mean
Let's think of it another way
Everything we do and say defines who we are
As we live out each day
What we did was wrong at the time
But it helps us go back and rewind
It's a mistake but it ain't no crime
重なり合うのさ つまりそれが愛

I said goodbye
I didn't know that it would all turn out this way
But now I know
I realise
And I can learn from my mistakes