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Sora Nakagawa

BEFORE THE LIGHT ARRIVES

Wrote theme songs for shows she was too young to watch, and is now older than her audience

style

  • j-pop
  • bright chorus
  • driving band arrangement
  • soaring female vocal
  • string countermelody
  • anime-opening energy
  • japanese accent
  • urgent and hopeful
  • japanese accent
  • urgent

the numbers

bpm
136
key
A# major
energy
0.66
dance
0.94
valence
0.56
vocal at
1.9s
length
1:58
words
149
clichés
0
language
Ja

most sung: “light” ×6 · “arrives” ×5 · “before” ×4

shared with the crate: 90 other songs use “light”

lyrics

(mae ni)

Juuroku no watashi wa nanimo shiranakatta
At sixteen I knew nothing and that is why it worked
Ima wa zenbu shitteru, dakara kakenai
Now I know everything, which is why I cannot write it again

And the light comes anyway!
It does not check whether you deserved it!
It arrives on a timetable that has nothing to do with you!

Before the light arrives
There is a whole hour that nobody writes songs about
Before the light arrives
And that hour is where I actually live

Kodomo-tachi wa mada juuroku de, watashi dake susumu
They are sixteen forever. Only I move. That was the deal.

And the light comes anyway!
It does not check whether you deserved it!

Before the light arrives
There is a whole hour that nobody writes songs about
Before the light arrives
And that hour is where I actually live

(mae ni...)
BEFORE THE LIGHT ARRIVES — Sora Nakagawa · FERAL