Credential Declines
Math Rock, Fragile and Unstable, clean interlocking guitar arpeggios with light tapping and open voicings move through shifting meters like 7/8 and 5/4 without fully resolving, beginning sparse with delay and controlled reverb then gradually layering restrained bass and precise drums using ghost notes, rim clicks, and abrupt silences to create tension, vocals are intimate, breathy, and slightly behind the beat in Japanese, almost spoken in verses, tightening rhythm in pre-chorus, then expanding into a clearer but still asymmetrical chorus, dynamics rely on contrast between near-silence and brief lifts rather than density, allow subtle timing imperfections and small displacements as intent, keep textures minimal but detailed, avoid full distortion, maintain a minor tonal center around 95–110 BPM, theme focuses on identity, rejection, and existing without recognition, using space, decay, and interruption as structural elements rather than effects
Credential Declines
Math Rock, Fragile and Unstable, clean interlocking guitar arpeggios with light tapping and open voicings move through shifting meters like 7/8 and 5/4 without fully resolving, beginning sparse with delay and controlled reverb then gradually layering restrained bass and precise drums using ghost notes, rim clicks, and abrupt silences to create tension, vocals are intimate, breathy, and slightly behind the beat in Japanese, almost spoken in verses, tightening rhythm in pre-chorus, then expanding into a clearer but still asymmetrical chorus, dynamics rely on contrast between near-silence and brief lifts rather than density, allow subtle timing imperfections and small displacements as intent, keep textures minimal but detailed, avoid full distortion, maintain a minor tonal center around 95–110 BPM, theme focuses on identity, rejection, and existing without recognition, using space, decay, and interruption as structural elements rather than effects
Lyrics
In a world where not having the right label quietly shuts you out,this song captures the frustration of being unseen despite being here.Still, it holds onto a small but steady will — the refusal to disappear.
ーーThe English lyrics are written below the Japanese lyricsーー
[Intro]
Access…denied
[Verse 1]
白い列に並ばされて
選ばれて落とされて
何も持たないこの手じゃここも通れない
特技を書けと言われても
何も書けないままで
「ここにいる」と言っても誰にも届かない
[Pre-Chorus]
合わせるたびズレていく
うまくやるほど消えていく
正しい形に削られて
自分じゃなくなる
[Chorus]
Credential, I don’t exist
いない いない いないみたいだ
ここにいるのに見えないまま消えていく
Credential, let me in
いたい いたい ここにいたい
名前がないそれだけで全部ダメになる
[Post-Chorus]
いない いない いない
(I don’t exist)
いない いない いない
[Verse 2]
どこかでチャンスがあっても
後からじゃもう遅いんだ
やり直せないことばかり胸に残ってる
それでもまだどこかで
諦めきれないままで
このまま終わるなんてどうしても嫌だ
[Pre-Chorus]
間違いでもいいから
一度だけでいいから
「ここにいていい」って言ってくれ
[Chorus]
Credential, am I real?
いない いない いないのか？
ここにいるのに誰も見ない消えていく
Credential, break the gate
いたい いたい ここにいたい
許されなくてもいいから
ここから出たい
[Bridge]
越えちゃいけない線なら
最初から引くなよ
ダメだって言われるほど
進みたくなるだろ
[Final Chorus]
Credential, I don’t exist
いない いない いないなんて
いない いない いないなんて
ここにいるのに見えないまま
終われない
Credential, let me in
いたい いたい ここにいたい
いたい いたい ここにいたい
名前がないそれだけで
消されてたまるか
[Outro]
[Fade]
いない いない いない…still alive
いない いない いない…still here
ーーーーーEnglishーーーーー
[Intro]
Access… denied
[Verse 1]
Lined up in rows of white
Picked apart, then cast aside
With empty hands like these
I can’t get through the gate inside
“List your skills,” they tell me now
But I’ve got nothing I can show
Even when I say “I’m here”
No one hears it, no one knows
[Pre-Chorus]
Every time I try to fit
I lose myself bit by bit
Carved into a perfect shape
Till I fade away
[Chorus]
Credential, I don’t exist
Like I’m gone, gone, gone somehow
Standing here but I’m invisible now
Credential, let me in
I just want, want, want to stay
Just no name and I’m erased anyway
[Post-Chorus]
Gone, gone, gone
(I don’t exist)
Gone, gone, gone
[Verse 2]
Maybe there was once a chance
Now it’s always way too late
Too many things I can’t undo
Still echo in my chest
But somewhere deep inside of me
I haven’t given up just yet
I can’t accept a life that ends
Without a place to stand
[Pre-Chorus]
Even if it’s all a lie
Even just this once, one time
Tell me I’m allowed to stay
[Chorus]
Credential, am I real?
Am I gone, gone, gone for good?
Standing here but no one ever looks
Credential, break the gate
I just want, want, want to stay
Even if I’m not allowed
I’ll find my way out
[Bridge]
If it’s a line I can’t cross
Why’d you draw it in the first place?
Every time you tell me “no”
Makes me want it more
[Final Chorus]
Credential, I don’t exist
Like I’m gone, gone, gone they say
Gone, gone, gone but I’m not fading away
Standing here, still unseen
I won’t end like this
Credential, let me in
I just want, want, want to stay
I just want, want, want to stay
Just no name and that’s enough
To wipe me out? No way
[Outro]
[Fade]
Gone, gone, gone… still alive
Gone, gone, gone… still here