song search

i'm sure some of you can relate to this: there's a song you've heard on the radio recently stuck in your head but you don't know the song title or the artist, and your only hope of guessing what the song is is by vaguely remembering some of the words from the song.

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if the song is in English, well then you have those search engines to help you e.g. SoundHound, but what if the song is a non-English song? first do make sure you have good humming skills, Significant Other tried humming a song he was trying to remember for SoundHound and the search results that came up were rubbish hahaha.

the other day i was trying to figure out this Japanese song that i recalled listening to a countless number of times before but i forgot the title and the artist. but i had a few setbacks.

1. since it's not English, i couldn't rely on SoundHound.
2. i could remember some of the lyrics, like 'sora wa' and 'kawaru' bahahahha but so much of help that was. do you know how many Japanes songs that carry those syllables??? alot i tell you. T___T.

i went through my once-an-ipod-nano-now-an-ipod-shuffle playlist twice but i couldn't find it (i had over 500 songs on it). i tried clicking on every song that had weird special characters in the playlist, but still no dice.

so i pondered on this on my way back home, until i remembered that there was a period that Significant Other was into Gundam Seed Destiny. so ok most of the Japanese music i like usually come from anime opening credits, or from games (i was an anime geek during my Uni days, not to mention my sister's second nationality should be Japanese if she was allowed to hahah).

so... i found the song! bahahhahahhahah. Wings of Words, by Chemistry.

the next day i checked my playlist and there it was, in the 'W' section, smirking at me in the face T___T.

nagusamenagara fukinshin dakedo
naiteru kao mo kirei de aseru yo
tomodachi no kyori sukoshi chidjimetara
kimi wa itoshii kowaremono datta

kujikezu yume wo miru koto wa
jibun to tatakatteru koto
higoto ni fueru surikizu wo
jiman shitemo ii kurai sa

sora wa tobenai kedo tsubasa nara ageyou
sore wa mou hitori ja nai to
kimi no kodoku hagasu kotoba
donna peshimisuto mo koi wo shite kawaru
eranda michi ga moshi ikidomari nara soko de
mayoeba ii

kagen no tsuki ga naifu no you da ne
sou iinagara dejavu kanjiteru

yokan to tomadoi no naka de
hitomi wa kimi wo sagashiteta
futari ja nai to hirakanai
tobira ga aru kono sekai de

sora wa tobenai kedo tsubasa nara aru no sa
sore wa futo fureta shisen de
kimi ga sasayaiteta shigunaru
itsuka riarisuto wa shounen ni modoru
sono toki boku wa kimi no tame ni donna yume wo
miru no darou

nazeka tagai no tsubasa wo motte
bokura wa umarete kita
mirai e to mukau tame ni
You know love has a gift
The Wings of Words...

sora wa tobenai kedo tsubasa nara ageyou
sore wa mou hitori ja nai to
kimi no kodoku hagasu kotoba
donna peshimisuto mo koi wo shite kawaru
eranda michi ga moshi ikidomari nara soko de
mayoeba ii