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Sora Nakagawa

COAST ROAD, FIRST GEAR

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
  • triumphant

the numbers

bpm
99
key
E major
energy
0.67
dance
0.91
valence
0.62
vocal at
2.6s
length
2:32
language
Ja

lyrics

(keys jingle)
(engine turns... catches!)

Failed twice at the same right turn
Third try — watch the whole world learn
The examiner stamped the sheet
I hugged a cone on Sunflower Street
(yatta! yatta!)

Mirror, signal, breathe, believe
Twenty-nine and finally free
(ikou! ikou!)

Coast road, coast road, take me blue
First gear trembling into new
Coast road, coast road, salt and light
Every wrong turn led me right
(whoa-oh-oh!)

Grandma waves from the garden gate
Says daijoubu, don't be late
The sea appears between two hills
Like it waited out my stalls and spills
(daijoubu!)

Coast road, coast road, take me blue
First gear trembling into new
Coast road, coast road, salt and light
Every wrong turn led me right
(whoa-oh-oh!)

To everyone still circling the lot
Stalling every shot
The horizon doesn't keep the score
It just keeps offering more
(more... more...)

Coast road, coast road, take me blue
First gear trembling into new
Coast road, coast road, salt and light
Every wrong turn led me right
(whoa-oh-oh!)

(gulls overhead)
(yatta...)