Hi all! I’m a music lover and listen to a lot of Japanese music, so I read and translate (on a very amateur level) song lyrics a lot. Since I’m not nearly competent enough in Japanese to transcribe a song by listening to it, I rely on the internet to find the original lyrics instead.
I’m really into the song “かくれんぼ” by batta right now, and I’m having a lot of trouble finding the lyrics. I’ve finally found them on a few sites, but they don’t seem… right. Just comparing what I’m hearing with what I’m reading, it seems like an entirely different song.
That’s a cool song, thanks for mentioning it here!
But unfortunately you’re right, the given lyrics on the page don’t match what he sings.
I tried to find better lyrics but did not succeed either…
is this song on spotify? Because when you play it on smartphone, it shows the lyrics. At least all japanese bands I listen to, they all appear with lyrics.
Yes, it is on spotify, but it does not show me the lyrics - do I need to enable this somehow?
If you’d like to double-check, the artist is called batta and the song is called Kakurenbo on spotify.
Maybe we can try to figure it out together? Some parts are quite well understandable but it’s a bit more troublesome during the refrain… I’ll turn this post into a wiki so you can add what you can understand, and I can check back again tomorrow (need to go to sleep soon)
Huh, I also use Spotify and I’ve never seen that lyrics feature either, on iphone nor android. I’ll have to investigate that later.
Thank you very much for confirming the lyrics are off. I was getting worried I was either going crazy or my Japanese was way worse than I thought it was! I wonder where they came from? Probably a different song of the same name, I’d guess.
I transcribed (I’m sure very badly) a bit up to the first chorus hoping to find the song misnamed but no dice.
I’ll start off @NicoleIsEnough’s wiki though if anyone wants to amend or add, feel free!
Yeah it sounds something like アルコールで追うんだ but not sure if that makes sense.
Last line is 君を探して見つけて無くして I think.
EDIT: I’m pretty sure I have the alcohol part correct, since 追う can mean to drive off. In this case driving off the images (with the fakelike alcohol).
アルコール’s closer than what I got! I think I dropped the あ and was somewhere in “cordelia??” land…
Nicole’s guess 偽物みたいな アコーディオンだ actually sounded impressively right to me, although it did make me wonder what the heck a counterfeit-looking accordion (??) would be…
Maybe he’s comparing crowds of people flowing through turnstiles to the way an accordion breathes? I’m trying to see the picture of the whole thing he’s talking about.
On the other hand listening back it does sound like で追うんだ… but I’m even less clear what 偽物みたいなアルコール would be…
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