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Sora Nakagawa

OLDER THAN THE SONG

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
144
key
A# major
energy
0.65
dance
0.94
valence
0.57
vocal at
2.1s
length
2:53
language
Ja

lyrics

(older than the song)

Sono uta wa mada juuroku-sai no mama de
The song is still sixteen and has stayed there without effort
Watashi dake ga toshi o totte, mainen aitsu ni au
Only I age. I meet it every summer at the same festival.

It has not changed a single word
And I have changed almost all of mine
And it still fits, which is the strange part

Older than the song, the song, older than the song
I outgrew everything except the thing I made at sixteen
Older than the song, the song, older than the song
And it holds me the way a coat from school still buttons

Kodomo-tachi ga utau, watashi no kotoba de
Children sing my sentences back at me in a field
Sono kotoba wa mō watashi no mono ja nai
And the sentences are not mine any more, which is the point

Kono uta o kaita hi, watashi wa nani mo shiranakatta.
The day I wrote it I knew nothing about anything at all.
And that is exactly why it works. Knowing would have ruined it.

Older than the song, the song, older than the song
I outgrew everything except the thing I made at sixteen
Older than the song, the song, older than the song
And it holds me the way a coat from school still buttons

(sixteen...)
OLDER THAN THE SONG — Sora Nakagawa · FERAL