Album: Rockarollica
2004.06.09 Victor Invitation

J.B.Honey
Lyrics: Imai Hisashi
Music: Imai Hisashi

Black Honey Jet black Honey
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Black Honey yeah

The guy you want is the devilish type
He keeps a list of the names of the Damned
Pure black, you've got the St. Vitus Dance1
With steps like a crow, the night falls2

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The wind of passion beneath your jet-black wings
Beating with the heartbeats of the Damned
Pure black, I know you've got the St. Vitus Dance
With steps like a crow, the night falls

Call me to a deep place
Call me to a deep place, toward your clapping hands

In clumsy resistance to desire
Dancing a tango that will never make money

Call me to a deep place
Call me to a deep place, toward your clapping hands

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Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
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Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
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Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

Jet black Honey
 

This song has always struck me as the most mysterious track Lucy has ever recorded (also one of their all-around strongest songs.) Music-wise, this song probably veers closer to Buck-Tick territory than anything else in Lucy's discography, not surprising since Imai wrote it, but what I find striking about this one is how the lyrics mark such a large departure from Imai's usual themes and style, especially given that Lucy was conceived as a sort of classic rock inspired tribute to the late hide (may he rest in peace) and most of Lucy's lyrics tend to be brash, straightforward rock-n-roll fun, on the whole more positive and upbeat than Buck-Tick lyrics, even those written by Imai. Even when considering the lyrics he's written for Buck-Tick, the dark imagery Imai conjures in these lyrics seems somehow creepier and more complex than his usual quirky cyberpunk fantasy tales, as well as being much oblique and ambiguous than is typical for him. I also find the third person perspective odd - the "you" character in these lyrics desires this devilish other guy, not the singer.

1) The word Imai used here is “butoubyou,” which means “chorea.” Chorea is a condition by neural degenerative genetic diseases where people become unable to control their movements and shake and tremble uncontrollably. Given the tone of the rest of the song, I thought it would be odd to use such a medical word, so instead I used the archaic colloquial term "St Vitus Dance," which refers to a variety of types of chorea as well as the Medieval "dancing mania" phenomenon where large groups of people would appear to simultaneously go insane and dance until they collapsed from exhaustion. Bauhaus also released a called "St Vitus Dance" with which Imai is surely familiar.

2) Since the word "step" is written in katakana in the original Japanese, this is a reference to a dance step, not a normal walking step, which calls to the dance reference in the previous line.

 

 

J.B.Honey
作詞:今井寿
作曲:今井寿

Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

欲しがるヤツが 悪魔のタイプ
キラワレモノが リストに上がる
純粋な黒 キミは舞踏病
鴉のステップで夜になる

Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

情熱の風 漆黒の羽乗せて
キラワレモノのリズムを鳴らす
純粋な黒 きっとキミは舞踏病
鴉のステップで夜になる

深いところへ誘って
深いところへ手の鳴る方へ

欲望に不器用に抗うように
金にならないタンゴを踊る

深いところへ誘って
深いところへ手の鳴る方へ

Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

Jet black Honey

 

 

J.B.Honey
Lyrics: Imai Hisashi
Music: Imai Hisashi

Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

Hoshigaru yatsu ga akuma no taipu
Kiraware mono ga risuto ni agaru
Junsui na kuro kimi wa butoubyou
Karasu no suteppu de yoru ni naru

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Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

Jounetsu no kaze shikkoku no hane nosete
Kiraware mono no rizumu wo narasu
Junsui na kuro kitto kimi wa butoubyou
Karasu no suteppu de yoru ni naru

Fukai tokoro e sasotte
Fukai tokoro e te no naru hou e

Yokubou ni bukiyou ni aragau you ni
Kane ni naranai tango wo odoru

Fukai tokoro e sasotte
Fukai tokoro e te no naru hou e

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Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey Jet black Honey
Black Honey yeah

Jet black Honey