Be Just Like You (off-vocal)

from Be Just Like You by SYARU 【Charlotte Does VocaJazz!】

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Hello everyone! This is Charlotte from SYARU!

This time I've returned with a new original song featuring GUMI English! (actually just Megpoid AI lmao) It's a song about learning a new language, but since in my case, that language is Japanese, it was super convenient that the Vocaloid 6 version of GUMI can sing both in English and Japanese! Off-topic, but did you know that GUMI shares some phonemes between English and Japanese? She sings Japanese with a noticeable English accent just by default now LOL

Anyway, this song feels quite special to me... Like, I feel like I haven't put this much raw emotion into a song in a really long time. It's a bit embarrassing to talk about, but Japanese really has changed my life more than I thought it ever could, so making a song about it hits me twice as hard, I think. That thing you hold dear in your life may be something else for you, but I hope this song can still resonate with you anyway.

Thanks for listening!

lyrics

I know you'll soon forget me
But I'll still be waiting here for you

I still don't really know you
though I learn to speak the same words that you do
Even now there's something unheard every day
(it's kinda scary)

I began to think like you
And strange things suddenly began to click
Did I really mean to do this to myself?

And my friends grew fewer
As the weeks faded into months
And they say:
"I just don't get why you'd waste your time like this."

And it's just too sad
No matter how much I fix my accent
I know that I'll never be truly just like you
I should've just stopped at "愛してる"

But I'm still wide-eyed
In a dream that makes me feel so alive
I don't even remember who I was before you
今更どうしよう you know?

But this is why I do it
To hear your voice and understand your heart
Surely I was born to soar the skies with you

and my world kept shifting
as the months grew into years
and I said:
"Before I lose myself won't you carry me away"

But it's just too sad
No matter how much I fix my accent
I know that I'll never be truly just like you
I should've just stopped at "愛してる"

And I'm still wide-eyed
In a dream that makes me feel so alive
I don't even remember who I was before you
今更どうしよう you know?