Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (スパイラル〜推理の絆, Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna?) is a fifteen-volume shōnen mystery manga series written by Kyou Shirodaira and illustrated by Eita Mizuno. It was published by Enix and then Square Enix in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from February 2000 to October 2005 and collected in 15 bound volumes. The series focuses on Ayumu Narumi and his efforts to solve the mystery of the Blade Children, cursed geniuses with cat-like eyes lacking a seventh rib bone. A prequel series by Shirodaira and Mizuno, called Spiral: Alive, was published in Gangan Wing and Monthly Shōnen Gangan from April 2004 to June 2008 and collected in five bound volumes.
Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning was originally licensed for an English language release in North America by Tokyopop, however the company dropped the series. Yen Press acquired the license for Northern American release, and published the first volume in October 2007.
The series was adapted as a twenty-five episode television anime series broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1, 2002 until March 25, 2003. The anime is licensed in Region 1 by FUNimation, who released it on DVD and broadcast it on the FUNimation Channel programming block on CoLours TV in 2006. The series was also adapted as four light novels and a series of CD dramas.
I could be daydreaming but for a moment
And somehow they're creeping back in
I could be sleeping awakened the torrent
Somehow I get caught in their grips again
And here I am in my shame spiral
I'm sucked in to it again
And I reach out for your (something something) opinion
You bring the light back in
Don't leave me here with all these critical voices
Cause they do their best to bring me down
When I'm alone with all these negative voices
Purple-brown skylit streetlight
Walking home, there ain't a trace of moonlight
You hold out your hand and everything is so easy
And I think that's the part that scares me
Do you feel the same?
I've been searching within
Looking for the point where you end
And the place where I begin
It's taking so long now, babe
Well, we bathe in the living room lamplight
Casting shadows on the walls that have heard these sighs before
I don't know if it's over
I guess the years just made us older
And I can't imagine life without you
How I built my life around you
We've been together so long now, babe
I'm seeing spirals
I'm moving with you again
[x3]
Heavy ever-circling dawnlight
We've been talking so long that we've lost just who we are
Like we're looking for answers
Come on and make my heart a dancer
I wanna hear not another word spoken
Let's get lost inside this moment
And I won't take no for an answer now
I'm seeing spirals
I'm moving with you again
My screams of fear and fury collide, a desperate
pattern I follow. Turn into silence, but still I hear
the silence scream. Oh how this fills me up.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance. I cannot take it.
I have to break this. Ware it down in small pieces.
My dreams have stopped but only for the moment.
I can feel it now. I can see it now. I'm in a downfall spiral.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance.
Lead by your words and your lies. I cannot take it.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance. I cannot take it.
Oh how this parasite consumes my inner bliss.
I can't take this much more. Take me away.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance.
Lead by the words and your lies.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance. I cannot take it.
Searching for a moment like this.
Raised with your act as a guidance.
Kilometers from nowhere on a scented avenue -
Lined with poppy girls.
I didn't stop, stop to say hello.
Curious vendors - waving bric-a-brac -
Looked me over -
Thought it best, best that I should go.
Don't wake me... I'm falling.
Slow spiral into morning.
Who's out there? Can't hear you.
Ears covered - Early warning.
Alarm bells ringing.
Time to make my peace with the dreary day.
I waited tables - I was tipped in roubles.
Wine to water
Was the best that I could do.
Wild office parties split the silence.
Loaves and fishes at an empty table laid for two.
Down the spiral, spinning madly.
Gathering momentum
On a Disneyesque adventure ride.
I fly in colours from richer palettes.
The hour of souls is the night by your side
the whisper of angels, your breath
I sleep behind the moon
with your slender hand in mine
The ceiling is gone
above me spins the spiral shaft
spinning round and round
above me spins the spiral shaft
The first day of spring is the light in your eyes
the core of the fire, your voice
I walk on the surface of the sun
with your slender hand in mine
The ceiling is gone
above me spins the spiral shaft
spinning round and round
Sometimes we only live for the here and now
Sometimes we're lonely
Sometimes we feel we need a place to be grounded
Or fly away again
I will fly away again
I will fly away again
Why are we feeling something's familiar around us?
Are we just dreaming?
Always we search for the answers but nothing is found
We'll fly away again
I will fly away again
I will fly away again
I feel rain pouring down
I wait to rot away
Live again
Here forever
The spiral never ends
Rot away
Live again
Here forever
The spiral never ends
I feel rain pouring down
I wait to rot away
Live again
Here forever
The spiral never ends
Rot away
Live again
Here forever
The spiral never ends
It never ends
I will fly away again
I will fly away again
I will fly away again
You try to fall in love but there's heart no more
What was once your heart is now just one big hollow
The whole universe is shining but you're pitch black
Running in a spiral and your light's whacked
Your body is collapsing from gravity
Unable to move, you feel you're losing your sanity
Cannot catch your breath and your bones are breaking
Getting invisible, nothing giving, nothing taking
And you feel like going down
To a black hole sun in your heart
Feeling numb
And you're drowning in spiral
If there was a hell it wouldn't make you feel worse
If you wanted to say a prayer you wouldn't get the words
And your fall is getting faster, you're screaming from
sorrow
And the time's no more, no today, no tomorrow
This is the end of a broken star
In my life, there's a right time
And a right place
There is order
There is method
Well, you know where
There is routine, nothing spare
Catch the light in a different way
And all the bullshit falls away and I
Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me
Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me
There is no love, not anymore
I don't think there ever was
As for me, I feel no hate
I may believe in luck
But not in fate
Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me
Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me
On the wall there is a red light
When I close my eyes
I see spirals
Spirals
Spirals
Spirals
Spirals
A frozen celestial mother
Raises a child of stone
Teardrops at a daughter lost
When she tasted the needle alone
A naïve angel you were
My faded Polaroid serene
On a carousel of endless time
Now that you?re gone
I see the sadness
I know it was wrong
A desire for madness She feels nothing but this emptiness
It?s a far cry from innocence
And neon street smacked friends
See she sold her soul cheaply scheming and now that you?re gone
I see the sadness
I know it was wrong
A desire for madness She feels nothing but this emptiness
And the shallow promises they lie
Exhaling for the last time
Tell me was it worth it
My friends a jack a jack of all tradesMy Girls a fool
foolish in her ways
And we run down by the ocean
Swim out past the waves
Its the crazy circular motion
That'll leave you in a haze
I will be sweet sweeter than your gaze
I will remember remember all these days When we ran
down by the ocean
And swam out past the waves
Its the crazy circular motion
That'll leave you in haze
Chorus
Its the spiral
That leads you around
Its the high road
You ain't never coming down
Its the spiral
That leads you around
Its the high road
You ain't never come never come
You aint never coming down
My lifes a road a road through changing times
My trails a mess a mess of tangled rhymes
And my vision's slightly faded
Can I read between the lines?
Should I deal with the created?
And justify their crimes
Chorus
I will be true truer than your lies
I will remember, remember all these times
when we ran down by the ocean
And swam between the lines
Can I justify the notion
That loving you's a crime?
Chorus
You aint never coming down
Your spinning round and all around
You aint never coming down
Your spinning round and al around
A frozen celestial mother
Raises a child of stone
Teardrops at a daughter lost
When she tasted the needle alone
A nave angel you were
My faded Polaroid serene
On a carousel of endless time
Now that you€™re gone
I see the sadness
I know it was wrong
A desire for madness She feels nothing but this emptiness
It€™s a far cry from innocence
And neon street smacked friends
See she sold her soul cheaply scheming and now that you€™re gone
I see the sadness
I know it was wrong
A desire for madness She feels nothing but this emptiness
And the shallow promises they lie
Exhaling for the last time
Tell me was it worth it
To desert this life, to desert this life
I've lost my mind on what I'd find
And all of the pressure that I left behind
On Allison Road
Fools in the rain if the sun gets through
Fire's in the heaven of the eyes I knew
On Allison Road
Well dark clouds fall in when the moon was near
Birds fly by a.m. in her bedroom stare
There was no tellin' what I might find
And I couldn't see I was lost at the time
On Allison Road
Yeah, I didn't know I was lost at the time
On Allison Road
So she fills up her sails with my wasted breath
And each one's more wasted than the others you can bet
On Allison Road
Now I can't hide
On Allison Road
So why not drive
On Allison Road
I know I want to love her but I can't decide
On Allison Road
I didn't know I was lost at the time
Eyes in the sun where the road wasn't wide
And I went looking for an exit sign
All I wanted to find tonight
On Allison Road
Yeah, I didn't know I was lost at the time
On Allison Road
But I've lost my mind and if the sun gets through
Fire's in the heaven of the eyes I knew
On Allison Road
On Allison Road
On Allison Road
Oh WAY~
Hajimaru Talk gutto bun eru soko wa muudoo ten hora matta nashi koeru jigen
Fukuramasu souzou ikesou sokkou koudou Life is what you make it!
Abare dashitara tomaranai agarippa nashi de gomen nasai
Guro guro ika shita kono kuuki ga suki uwagi nugide baka ni nari na
Minami no shima kara nihon juudan jiyuu jizai no ima nara kitto yurugaseru
Takanaru kodou tomosu hikari kono basho kara kakageru minna ni todoku SAY
Hey ho motto kiki mimi tate na Hey ho motto kiki mimi tate na
Yeah kamon motto kiki mimi tate na Yeah stand up endo made nori kari na
Ooru sutaa da minna FEEL FEVER zawameki na kono basho de
It's OK It's OK hajime ima karada goto maki kome supairaru
Ooru staa da minna FEEL FEVER zawameki na kono basho de
It's OK It's OK hajime ima karada goto maki kome supairaru
Mimi de taikan shite oto ni idomi na kubi furi na chanto rizumu kizami na
Sono tsugi karada mo issho ni yurashi na ato wa nasu ga mama kono ba de ittai kan
Gata gata iu natte soko de zutto matsu natte
Kono kuuki kuu ka kuwareru ka no kuukan
Sono ana kara sukoshi zutsu dete ki na mazu wa katai atama. atatamatte karada karada wa
Minami no shima kara nihon juudan jiyuu jizai no ima nara kitto yurugaseru
Takanaru kodou sasu hikari kono basho kara kakageru minna ni todoku SAY
Hey ho motto kiki mimi tate na Hey ho motto kiki mimi tate na
Yeah kamon motto kiki mimi tate na Yeah stand up endo made nori kari na
Ooru sutaa da minna FEEL FEVER zawameki na kono basho de
It's OK It's OK hajime ima karada goto maki kome supairaru
Ooru staa da minna FEEL FEVER zawameki na kono basho de
It's OK It's OK hajime ima karada goto maki kome supairaru
Tooku nai mirai ni muke pisutoru narase "kyou ni"
It's OK It's OK ima koso ooki na tsubasa tori ni kari na
Tooku nai mirai ni muke pisutoru narase "kyou ni"
We spiral down
No one can save you now
We slide away
No one can bring you around
We spiral down
No one can save you now
We slide away
No one can bring you around
Words and Music: Mike Connell
Come steer me now
Leave ideas in my head.
And I'll come alive
Or cover me instead.
There's a ceiling light above me
And a song that says I will.
And it's kneeling down upon me -- lonelier still.
Come hear me out.
There's more that I have been
Than figured out
And stunted end to end.
There's a ceiling light above me
And a space it cannot fill.
And it's bearing down upon me holding me still.
And I convinced you
That I would get there first.