Mystery Kanji in song lyrics

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So I’ve been trying my best to translate the lyrics to this song over the last week or so:

For the most part I feel like I’ve gotten the gist of it except for a specific word/kanji during the chorus - every reference to the lyrics I can find online have them written as:

頬 歪み 声 形
僕もまた 作られて流れる
宇深い 大きさに
凛とした鼓動を待っている

What’s really stumping me is 宇深い. No dictionary I’ve tried shows anything for 宇深い, only 深い (which I do think is correct). The 宇 kanji on it’s own seems to only be pronounced as ウ or as an alternate kanji for 軒(のき), neither of which would really make sense in the context of the song, but it sounds to me like he’s singing something closer to そら when I listen to the actual audio.

Does this seem like a mistake/typo in the written lyrics, or am I missing something?? I’d be quicker to dismiss it as an error except for how consistently the lyrics are written like this (including in Apple Music itself).

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Funny fact that yes we cannot find the そら pronounciation in every dictionnary. But take a look at this google translation output:
Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 09-59-18 traduction - Recherche Google

And yes i also heard そら in the song.

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I can’t remember what song but I remember at karaoke seeing some unusual kanji for a word relating to the sky and I asked my japanese friend why did they use that kanji and they said it’s almost like an aesthetic choice to make the lyrics more stylized/cool

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宇 can mean そら, though writing it that way is just creative liberty. That’s totally normal for song lyrics. Creative kanji usage is the norm.

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I also ask my japanese wife the same questions, and she gave me the same answer :rofl:

Aniway, find it そら is jinmeikun usually use for name.

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Awesome, thanks so much everyone! that makes a lot more sense now

was trying so hard to figure out how the concept of eaves would fit in to the lyrics and just couldn’t reconcile it

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