Tokoyami

Fumikage Tokoyami

Shinso: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Philippines by providence, impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

Ojiro: The ten-dollar Hero without a hero,
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
By being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter
By 14, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

Tetsutetsu: And every day while civilians were being slaughtered and terrorized
Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

Kirishima: Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

Shinso: Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"
Took up a collection just to send him to the Japan
"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and the world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

Tokoyami: Fumikage Tokoyami
My name is Fumikage Tokoyami
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait

Tsuyu: When he was 5, his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Fumi and his mother bed-ridden
Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick
Company: And Fumi got better but his mother went quick

Hawks: Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside
A voice saying, "Fumi, you gotta fend for yourself" He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

Shinso: There would have been nothin' left to do For someone less astute
He woulda been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford
Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
Plannin' for the future, see him now as he stands on
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
In Musutafu, you can be a new man

Company: In Musutafu, you can be a new man

Tokoyami: Just you wait!

Company:In Musutafu , you can be a new man

Tokoyami: Just you wait!

Company: In Musutafu! (Musutafu)

Tokoyami: Just you wait!

Company: Fumikage Tokoyami (Fumikage Tokoyami)
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
You could never back down
You never learned to take your time!
Oh, Fumikage Tokoyami (Fumikage Tokoyami)
When Japan sings for you
Will they know what you overcame?
Will they know you rewrote the game?
The world will never be the same, oh

Shinso: The ship is in the harbor now
See if you can spot him (Company:just you wait)
Another immigrant
Comin' up from the bottom (Company: just you wait)
His enemies destroyed his rep
Japan forgot him

Aoyama/Kirishima: We fought with him

Legu: Me? I died for him

Hawks: Me? I trusted him

Tsuty/Shouji: Me? I loved him

Shinso: And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him

Company: There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait!

Shinso: What's your name, man?

All: Fumikage Tokoyami!