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[Synced Lyrics for…] azure’s I Believe in Magic

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On 2026-09-05

In Music, Synced Lyrics

Last night the Osaka-based Alternative Folk Rock band azure dropped a video for their song, “That Day” [aka “その日”]. It had some fun color contrast stuff which patterned the album cover: deep red with washed out blues. I liked it and commented as such and woke up to find pretty much the entire video was gone.

I’m sure there’s a story but it IS a good song and hopefully the video returns so I can make that post but for now I can just share that I (again with help from LyricSynapse) have now synced the EP and included it in my folder, above.

As always, the lyrics belong to the creators and everything I did can be treated as CC-0.

In the “Everything will be alright!” section of the song “Everything will be alright!” my brain is slightly convinced there’s an “and Everything…” but after listening a dozen times I’m convinced my brain is hallucinating. Which means it is likely time to call it, there.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

[Synced Lyrics for…] The Warning’s Everything’s Falling

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On 2026-08-28

In Music, Synced Lyrics

Look, The Warning has popped off hard enough that I’m sure someone will have uploaded these (and probably multiple someones) but this morning as I was sitting down to jam out to the full album for the first time there were only three songs fully synced (being the singles): “Ego,” “Kerosene,” and “Ritual.”

I really liked the album and figured it could be fun to fire up LyricSynapse again and get them all in place [and tweak a few timings on the existing ones].

The results are in the Drive.

Think my favorite is possibly “Bite My Tongue” but I’ll give it a few days to sort through.

Felt wrong picking just one to be in the header so I flipped it sideways. That also feels wrong but what can one do?

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

[Synced Lyrics for…] Crazy Blues’ “Natsu, Kakenukeruyona”

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On 2026-08-26

In Music, Synced Lyrics

Crazy Blues released a new song, today: “Natsu, Kakenukeruyona“. I really like and have played it a good handful of times already.

While I’m sure someone will have synced the music is no time at all [turns out the video has timed subs and it would have been trivial to get those], I thought it might be nice to go through and do my own syncing. Sometimes I like breaking up lines a bit differently than “normal” and this one has a few repeated lines and diversions I had fun working in.

The “hey!” “ooo” and “aa” might not be the most exact, but that’s what they sounded like to my English speaking ears so I went with it.

All in all, it matches up with “YoungGirlsNeverApart” and “Light Song.” Crazy Blues is a perfect name for their sound. Joyous and wistful in equal measure. Whatever EP/LP they are cooking up will be astounding.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

[Synced Lyrics for…] komsume’s “Baku*,” “Fake,” “OK!,” “Lycoris,” and “Orion”

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On 2026-08-23

In Music, Synced Lyrics

When I started the process of translating komsume’s lyrics, I semi-expected some of the newer tracks — like “Lycoris” and “Orion” — to maybe need to be synced by me but I was a bit surprised to find out that their first single — “Baku,” which has actually three tracks — was also not synced.

And for some reason their first EP, Hankouki, didn’t seem to have the third track synced. At least not in the databases I use. Shazam users might be eating just fine. I don’t know. That’s between them and their god. They know what they did.

They were my next project because I love listening to komsume. Again I used LyricSynapse and for the first time did almost all my work in it, alone.

Some of their lyrics really confused the program.

To explain, imagine you had a pair of lines like this in English:

My heart is full of a winter
Snowstorm blowing anger and white

Except you sing it like this:

My heart is full
of a win
ter snowstorm blow
ing anger and white

It is a perfectly cromulent way of singing and kind of the way I write poetry, but it can confuse programs looking for a bit more of a gap. This means a few lines kind of have to trip over each other in my timing.

Also, the lyrics I found posted for “Shissou” were missing the final, “疾走” (aka, shissou, the name of the song). And there was a few “woah woah aaa” type bits I added in though others I left out. It’s all vibes, here.

“Baku” has a longer spoken bit — “(足音が近づいて呼吸が早くなって 都合の悪いことからは目を背け続けた 辛いのは全部自分のせい そう思えば少しは楽になる気がした)” — that I just put in parentheses (pictured) but treated as a single line rather than trying to break up the bit.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

[Synced Lyrics for…] kurayamisaka’s Summer Film

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On 2026-08-22

In Music, Synced Lyrics

UPDATE: I finally realized that the third/final repeat of the “soap bubble lines” only repeated the first and second portions. I have now cut that out and fixed the lyrics in the drive. Assuming I drug and dropped that into the folder correctly.

kurayamisaka dropped the MV (and single) for “Summer Film” recently and I thought the video was neat and really, really dug the song…

…as well as it’s b-side: “Hamabe Ni Chiru.”

BUT, not only was neither track properly synced there was an omission of the submitted lyrics for “Summer Film” and the search I was doing for HNC was coming back with lyrics for some entirely different song.

The omission by the way can be heard at around the 4:10 mark in the video. There’s a nursery rhyme being chanted in a way that blends a lot with the music. I used Ultimate Voice Remover to separate the lyrics out and could get it a bit clearer but couldn’t completely place it without some digging.

Turns out it is the first three lines of “Shabondama” being repeated. If they are saying the fourth line, it is completely swallowed in post production. I assume they are NOT saying the fourth line, because it is the line about the soap bubble popping when it hits the ceiling. By leaving that out, the bubble is still hitting the ceiling, but it persists. Which goes along with the shirt being worn in the video: “There is always light behind the clouds.”

Even though video depicts something like loss of someone you love, or at least some sort of separation, it continues to show bubbles rising even as the people fade.

It is likely a coincidence but the imagery of water falling while air rises makes me think of the I Ching hexagram “The Well” (48) which is all about reaching deeper into yourself to find new resources while avoiding shallow thinking. As the water sinks below the air, it becomes “Dispersing” (59) which is can be about letting go of your interior barriers and expanding yourself. Both fit themes of the video, I think.

At any rate, I have linked the lyrics above which includes the “Shabondama” lines starting in roughly the right place but initially there is a bit of a blend.

Tools used this time include the two usual suspects — LyricSynapse and Foobar2000/OpenLyrics — but with the addition of Ultimate Voice Remover which should save some time on some future versions of my big old lyrics project.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

[Synced Lyrics for…] Sam Vazquez’s Es Lo Que Hay

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On 2026-08-21

In Music, Synced Lyrics

I love listening to Sam Vazquez sing. She has a voice which is very much her own thing. Like a musical instrument dancing with words from the middle of the tongue. With just enough post-production to map a way through the mountains of lyrics that fit so well with her talents.

For example:

I am really happy she released a full album. It snuck up on me this past month. I like all the songs but some of the standouts for me are “Es Lo Que Hay,” “Mua Mua Mua,” “Quierre Quierre,” and “Dime Que Me Quieres” (with Big Sempa).

Only a couple of the songs on that album were synced even as of today so I spent a couple of hours syncing every song and doing some tweaks to the lyrics to better match the rhythm of what is actually sung [putting in repeated lines, better reflecting the number of times words were sung].

There are a few places with overlap I did the best I could.

As of now, these v1.0

I used LyricSynapse [had it working better than yesterday] with back-up support from Foobar2000/OpenLyrics.

Songs are untranslated Spanish but feel free to slap them into Google Translate (etc) and get them in whatever you language you prefer. No matter which language you speak, you should listen to more Sam Vazquez.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

Synced lyrics for The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ Spaceship Zero

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On 2026-08-20

In Music, Synced Lyrics

I have added synced lyrics to The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the shared folder.

These are mostly in the original English with a few exceptions:

  • Some have a bit of screaming/chanting and I sometimes noted it and sometimes did not.
  • “Dies Ist Unverschamtheit” has several lines in German and I did go ahead and translate those, even the ones that are pretty obvious in context.

There are a few editorials here or there. I tried to mostly use them to point out aspects of the song where it might be confusing if you are following by the lyrics.

Special shout out for this lyric from “Power Up!”:

No pension plan
Think tank is bankrupt
Sixty-eight ninety-five
Just for one Magno-Gun charge
Otto Destruct’s engaged
Dark Crab’s in A.A
Our stock is plummeting
They pulled the plug on Deep Freeze

“Otto Destruct”… so good. Much more enjoyable than syncing “KABLAM!” 75x. 😉

As of this time, consider these all v1.0. No doubt there are some glitches here or there but I did correct a LOT of the lyrics and fixed several glitches. Only maybe 3-4 of these songs were previously synced.

Tools used for this were LyricSynapse [I’ll save a review until I have used it more] and Foobar2000/OpenLyric.

After realizing that batch uploads like the 7thVega one won’t really be findable by folks, I have opted for a per-album version. Let us see how this goes.

You can get the album for yourself on the band’s Bandcamp: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Spaceship Zero.

I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.

Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.

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