Ain't No Love

Ain't No Love is a hip-hop/rap song performed by cozmez for the 10th CD Paradox Live Stage Battle "LOVE" released on January 27, 2021. Its music video premiered December 28, 2020 on the official Paradox Live YouTube channel.

Song Info[]

Lyrics: GASHIMA from WHITE JAM
Composition & Arrangement: Casa Milà
Rap and Vocals: cozmez

Music Video[]

Lyrics[]

Yeah
Ain't No Love

名も無きスラム街に生まれ
俺ら親父の顔も知らねぇ
いつも二人腹を空かせて
散らかった部屋で過ごしてたEveryday
身体を売る18のママ
生きるにはそうするしかなかった
男が来りゃ邪魔モノ扱い
部屋追い出す代わりくれた小遣い

Ain’t no love,　いくら探しても愛なんてない
コロコロ変わるママのBoyfriend
また街へ出てく、俺らを置いて
出口の見えないあの生活
二人で分け合うカップ麺が贅沢
俺らを産まなけりゃ良かった
そう言ってママはまた泣いていた

生まれ育った街にNo love
「永遠の愛」って何の冗談？
俺らが信じるのはNo one
力づくで奪い取るあの王冠
Ain’t no love,　誰かの愛なんていらねぇ
求めてすらねぇ
Ain’t no love,　俺たち愛なんて知らねぇ
知る必要もねぇ
Ain’t no love

真夜中の路上で
保護されて施設へ
冷たい床、臭いメシ
未来なんて見えねぇ
相変わらず、大人たちから受けた暴力
そこじゃ意味を持たない道徳
平凡な日々はまた遠のく

星さえ見えない夜空の真下
俺たち二人施設飛び出した
いつでも命がけの道端
ここで生きて行くことを選んだ
路地裏でたむろする仲間
ついて回る裏切りや騙し合い
また盗みや詐欺に運び屋
いつも言われてた「中身は見るな」

生まれ育った街にNo love
「永遠の愛」って何の冗談？
俺らが信じるのはNo one
力づくで奪い取るあの王冠
Ain’t no love,　誰かの愛なんていらねぇ
求めてすらねぇ
Ain’t no love,　俺たち愛なんて知らねぇ
知る必要もねぇ
Ain’t no love

地獄へのOne way
巡り合うRap game
ちんけな犯罪
それかこのOne mic
あのクラブのステージ
開いた気がした新たなページ
今も忘れないあの光景
初めて掴んだ賞金

生まれ育った街にNo love
「永遠の愛」って何の冗談？
俺らが信じるのはNo one
力づくで奪い取るあの王冠
Ain’t no love,　誰かの愛なんていらねぇ
求めてすらねぇ
Ain’t no love,　俺たち愛なんて知らねぇ
知る必要もねぇ

生まれ育った街にNo love
「永遠の愛」って何の冗談？
俺らが信じるのはNo one
力づくで奪い取るあの王冠
Ain’t no love,　誰かの愛なんていらねぇ
求めてすらねぇ
Ain’t no love,　俺たち愛なんて知らねぇ
知る必要もねぇ
Ain’t no love

Yeah
Ain’t No Love

Na mo naki suramu gai ni umare
Orera oyaji no kao mo shiranee
Itsumo futari hara o sukasete
Chirakatta heya de sugoshiteta Everyday
Karada o uru juu-hachi no mama
Ikiru ni wa sou suru shika nakatta
Otoko ga kurya jamamono atsukai
Heya oidasu kawari kureta kozukai

Ain’t no love, ikura sagashite mo ai nante nai
Korokoro kawaru mama no Boyfriend
Mata machi e deteku, orera o oite
Deguchi no mienai ano seikatsu
Futari de wakeau kappumen ga zeitaku
Orera o umanakerya yokatta
Sou itte mama wa mata naite ita

Umaresodatta machi ni No Love
“Eien no ai” tte nan no joudan?
Orera ga shinjiru no wa No One
Chikarazuku de ubaitoru ano oukan
Ain’t No Love, dare ka no ai nante iranee
Motomete sura nee
Ain’t No Love, oretachi ai nante shiranee
Shiru hitsuyou mo nee
Ain’t No Love

Mayonaka no rojou de
Hogo sarete shisetsu e
Tsumetai yuka, kusai meshi
Mirai nante mienee
Aikawarazu, otona tachi kara uketa bouryoku
Soko ja imi o motanai doutoku
Heibon na hibi wa mata tounoku

Hoshi sae mienai yozora no mashita
Oretachi futari shisetsu tobidashita
Itsudemo inochi gake no michibata
Koko de ikite iku koto o eranda
Rojiura de tamuro suru nakama
Tsuite mawaru uragiri ya damashiai
Mata nusumi ya sagi ni hakobiya
Itsumo iwareteta “nakami wa miru na”

Umaresodatta machi ni No Love
“Eien no ai” tte nan no joudan?
Orera ga shinjiru no wa No One
Chikarazuku de ubaitoru ano oukan
Ain’t No Love, dareka no ai nante iranee
Motomete sura nee
Ain’t No Love, oretachi ai nante shiranee
Shiru hitsuyou mo nee
Ain’t No Love

Jigoku e no One Way
Meguriau Rap Game
Chinke na hanzai
Soreka kono One Mic
Ano kurabu no suteeji
Aita ki ga shita arata na peeji
Ima no wasurenai ano koukei
Hajimete tsukanda shoukin

Umaresodatta machi ni No Love
“Eien no ai” tte nan no joudan?
Orera ga shinjiru no wa No One
Chikarazuku de ubaitoru ano oukan
Ain’t No Love, dareka no ai nante iranee
Motomete sura nee
Ain’t No Love, oretachi ai nante shiranee
Shiru hitsuyou mo nee
Ain’t No Love

(Translation provided by Linzz)
(WARNING: The following lyrics contain heavy subjects, most prominently abuse and neglect. Other subjects like prostitution and trafficking are also mentioned. Please read with discretion.)

We were born in the slums of a nameless town,
Not knowing even our father’s face
With both our empty stomachs,
We spent our everyday in a messy room
Mama sells her body at 18,
Wasn’t able to do anything in order to live other than that
We were treated as a nuisance whenever a man comes
Pocket money given in exchange for chasing us out of the room

Ain’t no love, no such thing as love no matter how many times you search
With mama’s boyfriends that frequently changes
She goes out into town while leaving us again
A lifestyle with no visible exits,
Our luxury were the cup noodles we both shared
“It would’ve been better if you weren’t born,”
Mama said and cried again

In the town where we were born, there’s no love
What kind of joke is “eternal love”?
We believe in no one
That crown that we’ll take with all our might
Ain’t no love, no need for such a thing like someone’s love
We don’t even seek for it
Ain’t no love, we don’t know such a thing like love
No need to even know
Ain’t no love

Through the streets in the middle of the night,
Sheltered and taken to a facility ^{[T/N 1]}
Cold floor, stinky meals
Can’t see such a thing like a future
The never-changing violence got from adults
There, exist meaningless morals
Ordinary days are still distant

Under the night sky with even no visible star,
We both run away from the facility
In the roadside of constantly risking our lives,
We chose to keep on living here
Comrades that gather in the back alleys
The traitors and the cheating that follows around
The stealing and the swindling, as well as the trafficking ^{[T/N 2]}
And the phrase we’re always told, “don’t look inside”

In the town where we were born, there’s no love
What kind of joke is “eternal love”?
We believe in no one
That crown that we’ll take with all our might
Ain’t no love, no need for such a thing like someone’s love
We don’t even seek for it
Ain’t no love, we don’t know such a thing like love
No need to even know
Ain’t no love

One way trip to hell
Rap games we come across
Small crimes
And this one mic
The stage in that club
A new page that I felt opened
That scene that’s still unforgotten
The prize money grasped for the first time

In the town where we were born, there’s no love
What kind of joke is “eternal love”?
We believe in no one
That crown that we’ll take with all our might
Ain’t no love, no need for such a thing like someone’s love
We don’t even seek for it
Ain’t no love, we don’t know such a thing like love
No need to even know

In the town where we were born, there’s no love
What kind of joke is “eternal love”?
We believe in no one
That crown that we’ll take with all our might
Ain’t no love, no need for such a thing like someone’s love
We don’t even seek for it
Ain’t no love, we don’t know such a thing like love
No need to even know
Ain’t no love

Translation Notes:

↑ “Facility” is a general term for homes that shelters people. There are different kinds of them, namely home for the aged, orphanage for kids, kindergarten for early education; can be a building or an establishment that shelters people or other living things for a purpose, i.e. treatment, care, education, recreation, charity, military, exchange, etc. and possible experiments. This has been translated as “orphanage” in the drama tracks, but with how dark and vague the story has been so far, I chose to use the general term “facility” instead to be on the safe side.
↑ “Trafficking” here includes illegal human exchange, smuggling of drugs, and other forms of courier activities that are considered illegal.

[1] “Facility” is a general term for homes that shelters people. There are different kinds of them, namely home for the aged, orphanage for kids, kindergarten for early education; can be a building or an establishment that shelters people or other living things for a purpose, i.e. treatment, care, education, recreation, charity, military, exchange, etc. and possible experiments. This has been translated as “orphanage” in the drama tracks, but with how dark and vague the story has been so far, I chose to use the general term “facility” instead to be on the safe side.

[2] “Trafficking” here includes illegal human exchange, smuggling of drugs, and other forms of courier activities that are considered illegal.

[T/N 1]

[T/N 2]