Namco Ltd. (株式会社ナムコ, Kabushiki Kaisha Namuko?) is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of video arcades and amusement parks. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo.
Namco was a front-runner during the Golden age of arcade video games. Pac-Man, its most famous title, went on to become the best-selling arcade game in history and an international popular culture icon.
Masaya Nakamura founded the company as Nakamura Manufacturing in 1955. Based in Tokyo, the company started out by running children's rides on the roof of a department store in Yokohama. The business eventually expanded throughout the Tokyo area. Nakamura Manufacturing was reorganized in 1958 and underwent a slight name change to Nakamura Manufacturing Co., which would later be used to form the acronym Namco. In 1970 the company produced a coin-operated mechanical driving simulator called "Racer".
Chuck Loeb (born Nyack, New York) is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music, most notably jazz. Loeb's own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz, which has "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz.
Loeb played in Stan Getz's group from 1979 for two years. In 1994 Loeb and fellow member of Stan Getz, Mitchel Forman formed the Jazz-Fusion band Metro.
His first solo album was released for Pony Canyon Records in Japan,(1989) the album called My Shining Hour. Later he produced some cd's for DMP and switched to Shanachie in 1996; Moon, the Stars, & the Setting Sun was issued in 1998; Listen followed in 1999, In A Heartbeat in early 2001 and All there is in 2002. Chuck has recently toured Spain with fellow band members drummer Josh Dion, bassist Brian Killeen and Matt King on keyboards.
As of 2010, he plays guitar for Fourplay as the replacement of Larry Carlton.
William C. Cobham (born May 16, 1944 in Panama) is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who permanently relocated to Switzerland during the late 1970s.
Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Allmusic's reviewer claims Cobham is "generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer with an influential style that combines explosive power and exacting precision.
Born in Panama, Cobham's family moved to New York City during his early childhood. A drummer from his youth, Cobham attended New York's High School of Music and Art, graduating in 1962.
He played in a U.S. Army Band from 1965 to 1968. Following his discharge, Cobham joined an ensemble led by pianist Horace Silver for about a year, also playing or recording with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, organist Shirley Scott, and guitarist George Benson.
Cobham branched out to jazz fusion, which blended elements of jazz, rock and roll and funk, playing and recording with the Brecker Brothers (notably in their 1970-founded group Dreams), and guitarist John Abercrombie, before recording and touring extensively with trumpeter Miles Davis. Cobham's work with Davis appears on A Tribute to Jack Johnson, among other recordings. Cobham is also one of the first drummers to play open-handed lead: a drummer that plays on a right-handed set but leads with his left hand on the hi-hat instead of crossing over with his right (and also has his ride cymbal on the left side, instead of the traditional right). He typically plays with multiple toms and double bass drums and was well known in the '70s for his large drum kits.
I tried so hard not to lose my way
I lost my way
I fall into your sea
I tried so hard but I cannot drown
I died with you today
(Chorus)
It's getting hard to reminisce without you
It's getting hard to push this pain deep down inside
It's getting hard to reminisce without you
Time stood still today
I put you in a padlocked box
I wear around my neck
And search for words to say
'Cause any time I cross my heart
We'll never be the same
(Chorus)
It's getting hard to reminisce without you
It's getting hard to push this pain deep down inside
It's getting hard to reminisce without you
It's getting hard to reminisce without you, without you
It's getting hard to push this pain down deep inside
No pocket change for me
The sun don't rise on you
And I wanted more and I feel this
And I swing with all I have
I won't let you die again
I can't let you die again
Excepting what cannot change, yet refusing to find the answers.
The days roll by still holding back.
I don't know why.
Am I afraid of rejection?
I feel comfort here.
No room for any fear.
It's hard for me to trust you.
It's hard for you to love me, the way I love you girl.
She tells him that she loves him and she's only thinking of him.
At least that's what she said last night.
(Chorus:)
True love, true love, it's coming down to haunt you.
You will never feel the same and only you are to blame.
The days go by and he feels the same
but she will flood his mind with childish games.
Truth. The thought of having someone that you can always depend on.
Feeling so frustrated.
Haven't felt so jaded.
22 and fading.
At least I'm still relating.
(Chorus:)
Nothing here had changed
and you can't make me happier than I was then.
This life might me changing.
At lease I still remain.
You're all I ever wanted but too intense.
Can't stand it.
Take me as I am girl cause you're all I've got girl.
(Chorus:)
Where is the party?
19th and Capital!
You're all invited.
It's time to have a ball.
(Chorus:)
To all you people.
We are all the same.
I'll play play my music loud as you'll do the same.
Hey! What do you prefer?
Been hiding out.
Haven't slept in nights.
I'm in a cloud living life in doubt, feeling so down, screaming out loud.
Hear me!
(Chorus:)
Never again.
Never again will I take this for granted. (2x)
A certain need has come over me.
It's you and me.
(Chorus:)
It's already done.
There's nothing to prove.
Thinking about my golden years and how I've wasted.
I've grown up strong but then again I feel so weakened.
I've gotten sucked into the lies and now I tell them.
I live and sleep and dream about the pain and suffering.
(Chorus:)
But I will hang in there and yes I have forgave you.
I will move on.
Another winter has hit and now I feel a little threatened.
When this time of your comes around then hits the deep depression.
I'll hang out with only those that will comfort me.
Hey Hey Joe!
Why does it seem, when you meet that special someone, they go away?
Why can't it be just for once it can happen to me?
The times we've spent hanging around each other.
So much fun.
Watching your smile filled me with so much joy and laughter.
(Chorus:)
Sometimes things happen for a reason.
At least that's what I tell myself.
Will you come back?
I'll never know.
All I can do is wait and hope so.
I'll wait for your call or maybe I'll just write you a letter.
I know this place.
It's not very far.
Someday I'll see you there.
I see a place, I see a face,
I'm in my own world and that's where I'm staying.
I feel at peace.
Something so powerful, cleansing my entire.
And when I hear your song it makes me feel at ease.
(Chorus:)
And when I'm in the mood, maybe I'll play that song for you.
So I'll pop it in again and again.
It makes me feel better and I felt so bitter.
Too weak, too strong, no right, not wrong.
My thoughts, my worries bring me down.
Sometimes I feel like exploding.
It's not about you, so don't let it bring you down.
Sometimes I take things for granted.
Sometimes my mind takes over.
It's not about you, so don't let it bring you down.
(Chorus:)
Take it easy Mathew!
What is going through your mind?
What exactly are you thinking?
My brain is frying.
I can't take it anymore.
All this analyzing.
So here it goes.
Hello friend.
It's me again.
I'm feeling sad and it's not the first time.
I'm hearing that you do not care.
I'm not buying it.
(Chorus:)
Too long to be free.
I know your strong enough to see.
Are you too weak to find the answers?
I'm feeling tension that's in the air.
I'll take a breath and start all over.
I'll do anything for you my friend.
Our friendship seems to sometimes fade.
Our closeness seems so far away.
This world has changed and I don't feel safe here.
All of this violence has left me so shaken.
Ignorance is no way to live
and if you could open your eyes and just give a little,
we would feel so much safer.
(Chorus:)
We've already demolished what we had.
There's no more beauty left to give.
So listen to me man.
We are like brothers.
We both have the same hearts and they both have been broken.
We both have lived these sheltered lives
and we both have heard all the flippin' lies.
At lease we know now.
(Chorus:)
Our dreams should be fulfilled and not shattered.
As long as we're here it doesn't matter.
We'll come together and be as one.