Bright & Dark

***Bright & Dark*** is a song by Bad Ass Temple and Matenro. It was featured in the *Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rule the Stage《Bad Ass Temple VS Matenro》*.

## Track Info

* **Lyrics/Composition/Arrangement**: Koji Ide
* **Length**: 6:15
* **Tempo**:

## Lyrics

* English
* Romaji
* Kanji

---(All)---

Bright

Dark

Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on

Bright & Dark

Bright & Dark

Bright & Dark

Bright & Dark

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

It reverberates in my ears still;

Afterimages burning within the dying candle

Reckless with resentment; showing terminal symptoms

Yet within the ash searching for a diamond

The more brilliant the light, the deeper the shadow

Tracing the past for answers is a reductio ad absurdum

I cannot overlook how your mistakes have carried you away;

As your friend I will defeat you now

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

Those who’d mistake the right from the wrong

And those who only listen to the side of the “just”

Idiots like that’ve gotten left behind

I’m not the worthless me driven by winning anymore

I’ve overcome my past, known true pain

To protect my bonds I’ll argue you down

This is an elegy to me as I am

And I’m defeating you here and now

---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---

Bright & Dark, Bright & Dark

Lay bare your dark-bright duality

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

In the wavering neon the city bustles

That bewitching light is my battleground

Your light’s nothing but an imitation

No matter how bright you shine there’s no point

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Can some defense attorney really see how dark my world is?

Can some monk and some edgy kid treat a customer right?

When you’re handing down the tasks like there’s no tomorrow

Can you look at me with all my pride and still sneer like that?

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

We’ve overcome countless battlefields with our variety

No one can rival us when it comes to drinking

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

I’ve been trampled more times than I can count

But don’t think that means all I can do is complain

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

With Doppo-kun atop this verse we strengthen our bonds

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Hurry up and apologize, damnit!

Nagoya, you’re nothing

---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Shaking you down with a perfect scrum

Impenetrable and invincible

Shinjuku Matenro

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

inseparable

---(Kuko Harai)---

With a sermon that crushes evil

I’ll strike the cowards down, I’m awakening

You unknowns don’t got the courage to be notorious

Idiots get outta here!

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

The excess that’s seeped into your heart (ah)

Exposes your crafty ways, Shinjuku

Ideologies and ideals alone you must not lose (woo)

I live on questioning what it means to be myself

---(Kuko Harai)---

Nothin’ gets started if all you do is run

If you’re scareda conflict

You’ll never open your heart

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Enduring our pain we take the front lines

In this battle our pure bonds become the light

---(Kuko Harai)---

We carry our joy and suffering as three

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

We cannot retreat until we emerge the true victor

---(Kuko Harai)---

All or nothing

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Proclaim our determination

---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---

Nagoya Bad Ass Temple, never slipping up

Bright & Dark

Bright & Dark

We’re settling the right from the wrong

---(All)---

Within this city of intermingled light and shadow I’m alive

Cross the border and cry out with a ceaseless howling

We carve away our lives with strokes of word Battle Tribe

Can you steal it away exquisitely?

Will you crumble to dust unseemly?

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Neither yin nor yang can concede

Sound on my Hypnosis Mic

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

We wage war with our resentment

Rhyming without fear of divine retribution

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

A vulgar, flashing party? (No)

Let’s calm down with a bit of herb tea (Yeah)

If you’d frighten the princesses and hurt my friends

I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you impolite guests to leave

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Haunting the nightlife streets like opportunists

If that’s what hosts think is proper then I just can’t accept it!

I don’t wanna see adults’ cheap tricks

That transient dream–I will bring it all to naught

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

You produce nothing; all you speak is dreams (delusions)

You’re just a kid with no digestive issues

Don’t pretend you’re depressed, knock it off with those boots (They’re weird)

I’ll go ahead and buy you a job-hunting suit

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

Oi, I don’t wanna hold justice over your head

But why don’t we fix that pessimism of yours?

Lashing out like that ain’t gonna fix anything

Before you go wild, assess and stop yourself

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

Ah, I feel a sense of beauty about this battle

I perceive that we must open a dialogue

I will have you understand that warring in vain is worthless

Even you, who stand before me as enemies, I will one day save

---(Kuko Harai)---

Save? That’s just proof you’re arrogant

Overconfidence, grief–if that’s fate, it’s ugly

Everyone chooses their own path, no leader needed

Seek the way forward on your own two feet

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

I see; the way you find fault with me is crude,

But I suppose it’s better than remaining apathetic

So then you, a monk who shows others the way

Will have to learn to see the road as I do!

---(Kuko Harai)---

Haha, You’re a real interesting guy, Jakurai

Sure, I’ll take you up on that and serve you consequences

With some eternal, endless abuse

You’re the guy who’s gotta reform here, insolent fool!

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Matenro)---

Let’s push each other higher, we friends declare

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

Let the strength of our bonds last millennia

---(Matenro)---

We who weather our fates together, Shinjuku Matenro

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

We who risk our lives together, Nagoya Bad Ass Temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on

The cycle of karma repeats

As we create a new world

Imposing our wrath with this rhyme and flow

Yin and yang, poetic justice

Within this city of intermingled light and shadow I’m alive

Cross the border and cry out with a ceaseless howling

We carve away our lives with strokes of word Battle Tribe

Can you steal it away exquisitely?

Will you crumble to dust unseemly?

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Neither yin nor yang can concede

Sound on my Hypnosis Mic

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

We wage war with our resentment

Rhyming without fear of divine retribution

Until our voice gives out on us

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

---(Matenro)---

We who weather our fates together, Shinjuku Matenro

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

We who risk our lives together, Nagoya Bad Ass Temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Let the end begin; the light shines, marking our way on

Bright

Dark

---(All)---

Bright

Dark

Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

Ima mo mimi ni hibiku zankyō to

Zanzō ga awaku yureru kyandoru

Uppun no bōsō sudeni makkijōjō

Saredo sagasu hai no naka no daiyamondo

Mabushiku hikaru dake tsuyoku naru kage

Kako o tadori kotae sagasu hairihō

Machigatta nagare misugosenai genjō

Naraba tomo to shite kimi o taosou

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

Kō mo tsumi mo hakichigae teta

Do seiron bakari no bōchō-sha (ha~a? )

Son'na baka wa mō koko ni ine~e

Kachi igai mu kachidatta anogoro no ore jane~e

Kako o norikoeta itami mo shitta

Dakara kizuna mamoru tame ni kiru tanka

Ore ga oredearu tame no sanka

Ima koko de omae o taosu

---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Sadake dase onore no in to yō

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

Yureru neon to machi no kensō

Adeyakana hikari ga boku no senjō

Kimitachi no kagayaki wa imitēshon

Ikura migaite mo imi nai sa

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Bengoshi nanka ni ore no burakkuna sekai mieru ka?

Bōzu to chūnibyō ni eigyō ga dekiru ka?

Muyami yatara tasuku no saibun-ka

Dakedo hokori takaku ikiru ore o waraen no ka~tsu!?

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

Ikuta no shuraba taiō shite kita tayō-sei

Nomi no keiken-chi danchigai

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Sanzan'na menara kazoe kirenga

Fukōhei nageku bakari jane~e kanchigai

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

Doppo-kun to kama su verse kizuna de tsunagu

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

`Gomen' to ie kasu~tsu! Nagoya nurumayu

---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Yurugasu zetsumyō no sukuramu

Shikaku-nashi saikyō

Shinjuku Matenro

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Hikatokage hyōriittai

---(Kuko Harai)---

Rinjō hajakenshō seppō

Okubyō kyō sukkon dena kaigan sessō

Mumei ni masaru akumyō no kakugo mo mu ~endaro?

Aho dōke wa doke!

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Kokoro ni shimitsuita zeiniku (ah)

Kōkatsuna yarikuchi no Shinjuku

Rinen risō koso ushinau nakare (woo)

Tsuneni tou ga no aru igi o myself

---(Kuko Harai)---

Nigete bakarija nan mo hajiman'ne~e

Butsukaru no o osore techa uchitokene~e

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Itami ni taenagara saizensen

Tatakau kiyoi kizuna ni hikariare

---(Kuko Harai)---

Yorokobi mo kunō mo san'nin de seou

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Shin no shōsha to naru made wa kōtai senu

---(Kuko Harai)---

Kenkon Itteki

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Kakageru futaiten

---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---

Nagoya Bad Ass Temple nukari wa nē

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Shirokuro tsuke ni sanjō

---(All)---

Hikatokage irimajiru konomachide I'm alive

Border o koete sakebi tsudzukero howling

Inochi no kagiri kezuri au kotoba battle tribe

Utsukushiku (hey) bundoru ka (hey) minikuku (hey) kuchihateru no ka

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Yuzurenai onmyō no rensa

Nari yamanu hipunoshisumaiku

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Waga tame ni tatakau ensa tenbatsu mo osorenu rhyme

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

Gehin ni gira tsuita pātī (no)

Sukoshi ochitsukimashou hābutī (yeah)

Hime o obie sasu nakama kizutsukeru

Reigi-shirazuna okyaku wa o kaeri negau

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

Yoru no machi ni sukuinagara watariaruku seki

Son'na hosuto no sahō wa ukeirenaissu

Mitakunai otona no kozaiku

Utakata no yume waga suihōnikisu

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

Shōsansei ga nai yumemi-gachina kotodama (mōsō)

Kenkōna ichō madamada okochama

Enjiru na yūutsu yame toke yo sono būtsu (henda zo ̄ )

Kawari ni katte yaru rikurūtosūtsu

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

Oi seigi-kan o furikazashi takane~e ndaga

Sono hikan shugina seikaku wa tadasou ka

Gyaku gire ja nan mo kawarane~e

Bōsō mae ni onore mitsume tomare

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

Aa nazeka ishikumo kanjiru kono battle

Hitsuyōna no wa taiwada to watashi wa satoru

Muekina arasoi ni kachi wa nai to satosu

Tekidearu anatatachi mo itsuka watashi ga sukuu

---(Kuko Harai)---

Sukuu? Sore wa kisama no ogorinari

Kashin urei matsuro kaku mo minikukeri

Banmin ga erabu michi sendō-sha yō ran

Onore no ashi de aruku kyūdōsha de are

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

Naruhodo ageashiwotoru ronpō

Chisetsudaga mukanshin o kidoru yori wa yoideshou

Naraba hito ni michi o toku sō no anata ni sae

Watashi no yarikata de michi o shimesou!

---(Kuko Harai)---

Haha sasuga omoshiro re ~ena Jakurai ī ze

Ukete yaru ze sono ingōna nari furumai

Sessō no matsudai made tsukinu akutai

Teme~egotoki nya tadasene~e sharakusa ~e!

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Matenro)---

Sessatakuma shi au nakamatachi to sengen

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

Tsuyoi kizuna musubi au ikusen'nen

---(Matenro)---

Unmeiwotomonisuru Shinjuku Matenro

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

Inochi wa reru kazoku Nagoya Bad Ass Temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e

Kurikaesu ingaōhō

Aratana tenchi sōzō

Gekirin'nifureru in to flow

In to yō poetic justice

Hikatokage irimajiru konomachide I'm alive

Border o koete sakebi tsudzukero howling

Inochi no kagiri kezuri au kotoba battle tribe

Utsukushiku (hey) bundoru ka (hey) minikuku (hey) kuchihateru no ka

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Yuzurenai onmyō no rensa

Nari yamanu hipunoshisumaiku

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

Waga tame ni tatakau ensa tenbatsu mo osorenu rhyme

Sakebe koe tsukiru made

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

---(Matenro)---

Unmeiwotomonisuru Shinjuku Matenro

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

Inochi wa reru kazoku Nagoya Bad Ass Temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Iza ketchaku hikari sasu sono basho e

Bright

Dark

---(All)---

Bright

Dark

いざ決着 光差す その場所へ

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

今も耳に響く残響と

残像が淡く揺れるキャンドル

鬱憤の暴走 既に末期症状

されど探す灰の中のダイヤモンド

眩しく光るだけ 強くなる影

過去を辿り答え探す背理法

間違った流れ 見過ごせない現状

ならば友として君を倒そう

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

功も罪も履き違えてた

ド正論ばかりの傍聴者 (はぁ?)

そんなバカはもうここに居ねぇ

勝ち以外 無価値だったあの頃の俺じゃねぇ

過去を乗り越えた 痛みも知った

だから絆 守る為に切る啖呵

俺が俺であるための讃歌

今ここでお前を倒す

---(Jakurai Jinguji & Hitoya Amaguni)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

曝け出せ己の陰と陽

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

揺れるネオンと街の喧噪

艶やかな光が僕の戦場

君達の輝きはイミテーション

幾ら磨いても意味ないさ

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

弁護士なんかに俺のブラックな世界 見えるか?

坊主と厨二病に営業ができるか?

むやみやたらタスクの細分化

だけど誇り高く生きる俺を笑えんのかっ!?

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

幾多の修羅場 対応してきた多様性

飲みの経験値 段違い

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

散々な目なら数えきれんが

不公平 嘆くばかりじゃねぇ 勘違い

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

独歩君とカマす verse 絆で繋ぐ

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

「ごめん」と言えカスッ! ナゴヤぬるま湯

---(Hifumi Izanami & Doppo Kannonzaka)---

揺るがす絶妙のスクラム

死角無し最強

シンジュク 麻天狼

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

光と影 表裏一体

---(Kuko Harai)---

臨場 破邪顕正 説法

臆病共 すっこんでな 開眼 拙僧

無名に勝る悪名の覚悟も無ぇんだろ?

阿呆道化は退け!

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

心に染み付いた贅肉 (ah)

狡猾なやり口のシンジュク

理念理想こそ失うなかれ (woo)

常に問う我の在る意義を myself

---(Kuko Harai)---

逃げてばかりじゃなんも始まんねぇ

ぶつかるのを恐れてちゃ打ち解けねぇ

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

傷みに耐えながら最前線

闘う清い絆に光りあれ

---(Kuko Harai)---

喜びも苦悩も三人で背負う

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

真の勝者となるまでは後退せぬ

---(Kuko Harai)---

乾坤一擲

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

掲げる不退転

---(Kuko Harai & Jyushi Aimono)---

ナゴヤ Bad Ass Temple 抜かりはねぇ

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

白黒つけに参上

---(All)---

光と影 入り混じるこの街で I'm alive

Border を越えて 叫び続けろ howling

命の限り 削り合う言葉 battle tribe

美しく (hey) 分捕るか (hey) 醜く (hey) 朽ち果てるのか

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

譲れない陰陽の連鎖

鳴り止まぬヒプノシスマイク

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

我が為に闘う怨嗟 天罰も恐れぬ rhyme

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

Bright, dark

麻天狼 説法

---(Hifumi Izanami)---

下品にギラついたパーティー (no)

少し落ち着きましょう ハーブティー (yeah)

姫を脅えさす 仲間傷つける

礼儀知らずなお客はお帰り願う

---(Jyushi Aimono)---

夜の街に巣食いながら渡り歩く席

そんなホストの作法は受け入れないっす

見たくないオトナの小細工

泡沫の夢 我が水泡に帰す

---(Doppo Kannonzaka)---

生産性が無い 夢見がちな言霊 (妄想)

健康な胃腸 まだまだお子ちゃま

演じるな憂鬱 やめとけよそのブーツ (ヘンだぞー)

代わりに買ってやるリクルートスーツ

---(Hitoya Amaguni)---

おい 正義感を振り翳したかねぇんだが

その悲観主義な性格は正そうか

逆ギレじゃなんも変わらねぇ

暴走前に己 見つめ 止まれ

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

嗚呼 何故か美しくも感じるこの battle

必要なのは対話だと私は悟る

無益な争いに価値は無いと諭す

敵である貴方達もいつか私が救う

---(Kuko Harai)---

救う? それは貴様の驕りなり

過信 憂い 末路かくも醜けり

万民が選ぶ道 先導者 要らん

己の足で歩く求道者であれ

---(Jakurai Jinguji)---

なるほど 揚げ足を取る論法

稚拙だが無関心を気取るよりは良いでしょう

ならば人に道を説く僧の貴方にさえ

私のやり方で道を示そう!

---(Kuko Harai)---

Haha さすが面白れぇな寂雷 いいぜ

受けてやるぜ その因業ななり 振る舞い

拙僧の末代まで尽きぬ悪態

テメェごときにゃ正せねぇ 洒落臭ぇ!

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Matenro)---

切磋琢磨し合う 仲間達と宣言

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

強い絆 結び合う 幾千年

---(Matenro)---

運命を共にする シンジュク麻天狼

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

命はれる家族 ナゴヤ Bad Ass Temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

いざ決着 光差す その場所へ

繰り返す因果応報

新たな天地創造

逆鱗に触れる韻と flow

陰と陽 poetic justice

光と影 入り混じるこの街で I'm alive

Border を越えて 叫び続けろ howling

命の限り 削り合う言葉 battle tribe

美しく (hey) 分捕るか (hey) 醜く (hey) 朽ち果てるのか

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

譲れない陰陽の連鎖

鳴り止まぬヒプノシスマイク

Light and shadow (oh)

Bright and dark, yeah (oh)

我が為に闘う怨嗟 天罰も恐れぬ rhyme

叫べ 声 尽きるまで

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

Bright and dark, bright and dark

Yo yo yo yo

---(Matenro)---

運命を共にする シンジュク麻天狼

---(Bad Ass Temple)---

命はれる家族 ナゴヤ bad ass temple

---(All)---

Bright and dark

Bright and dark

いざ決着 光差す その場所へ

Bright

Dark