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all sets of lyrics on vocadb
Conc-r-eal is a bit of an odd song in that there are multiple (at least 3) sets of lyrics that came with the official upload… and none of them are what’s being sung! So what’s going on here?
The first and last couple lines of the song are the same between all versions so they must have some significance.
Something dwells within
Consciousness jumbled up
…
…
Ah, I’ve done it now~Outside the outline all lined up
Within this delirium lies the real real
The state of the lyrics is likely meant to reflect the ramblings of a “jumbled up consciousness”. They’re often so nonsensical I have to wonder if they might be ai-generated? (a lot of people say ‘this feels ai-generated’ as a way to convey that they think something is either derivative slop or super whacky and crazyyy, but I genuinely think it’s a likely possibility and I don’t mean that with any derision when I say that) Either way, attempting to translate them without overextending my search for meaning is very difficult. Within all the nonsense there are certain fragments here and there that feel very intentional, but it might be impossible to separate my personal reading from my translation for this song. I’ve marked lines I think are significant or notable across all versions
There are two characters present: teto, styled as a scientist of sorts with her lab coat and a palette-swapped dark teto who I will refer to as ‘idto’ since she shows up during the “within an overgrown Ego an Id lies in wait conc-r-ealed” line. Idto represents the dark parts of the human mind straining to break free it’s constraints, she is the “something [that] dwells within” “within anyone, within everyone […] discreetly”… probably
The wordplay in the title is translated pretty directly, “conc-r-eal” is just the word conceal with an r added to create the word “real”. It might be a bit inelegant but it gets the point across. 潜リ有ル literally reads as “to dwell concealed” but has the word “リアル/real” hidden inside (the ア character is written as 有).
transcribed audio
潜在して
混濁する意識
センテンスに絡まった豚
ローコストに繕った歌
コンセプトでまやかすならば
ナンセンスに朽ちた墓場
フラ クラ アムネシア
ヴィジュネルの空に沈む
リプレイスしたピクセル
行きずりに交わし増える
洞の隙間でうごめく子供たち
フラクタルさらに悶える
ガラクタ集めにいそしむ
しわがれた声のジークレフ
不慮につぶさに煌めく
オルガネラに
限りある中
売り歩く人
余りあるエゴ
潜リ在ルイド
誰にでも どこにでも
ひそやかに ある
リベンジメント
死んじまって灰になったシンガー
ミリグラムひしめきあった因果
アドバタイズかなぐり捨ててから
一直線に連なる?? ??
傍らで滴るインテロバングの血糊が
検索ネットワークのじゃない崩壊した人が
次のデンゲーのハイブスに押し広げた
全く纏まらない このレプリカー
あ～やっちゃった
罫線の外に並べた
譫言こそが本当のリアル
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These lyrics are transcribed by ear by legendary teto user yasai31 in the video comments, with other users filling in some of the gaps. As of writing we have all but one line fully transcribed, but there is of course a possibility of error and we currently have no way to confirm the accuracy of these lyrics.
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transcribed audio english
Something dwells within
Consciousness jumbled up
A pig tangled up in sentences
A song repaired for a low price
A concept that deceived us [1]
While my grave rotted into nonsense [1]
Head getting fuzzy, amnesia [1]
Sink deep into Vigenère’s blue sky
A dead pixel that has since been replaced
Encounter, become one, then multiply [2]
Infants pushed through the wet corridor [2]
Grow up to be burdened by fractal agonies [2]
Devote themselves to collecting junk [2]
Cry out a G-clef in a voice rendered hoarse [2]
And then suddenly transform into glittering [2]
Organelles [2]
Within reasonable limits
A salesman peddling wares
Within an overgrown Ego [3]
An Id lies in wait conc-r-ealed [3]
Within anyone, within everyone [3]
It dwells discreetly [3]
Revengiment [3]
A singer that’s died and since turned to ashes
Causalities crowded together by the milligram
Thwart off advertisement attacks and then
Draw a straight line connecting the ??
The blood of an interrobang dripping over the edge
Those who decayed in the place of a search engine
A den-game that’s spread its hives far and wide
Oh, it’s not coherent in the least, this replica of mine [4]
Ah, I’ve done it now~
Outside the outline all lined up
Within this delirium lies the real real
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[1]: I’d say the most consistent “theme” of conc-r-eal is “the conflict between the desire to express yourself accurately and the deterioration of coherency”. This deterioration embodied by idto who is a representation of the raw overwhelming force of the unconscious mind.
[2]: It’s unusual for a single through-line to persist for this long…
[3]: This verse is why I call the palette-swapped teto “idto” as I explained above… It’s perhaps also noteworthy that of all the nonsense present throughout the song “revengiment” is the only word that’s just plainly made up.
[4]: The word used for coherent here (纏まらない) doesn’t refer to coherency of speech, it’s more of a general “doesn’t come together properly”. I wonder if the replica that doesn’t come together is idto…
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youtube subtitle lyrics
潜在して
混濁する意識
黄色いアロエに空いた穴
島流しに遭った太もも
オフサイドでしゃがむ花札
ヨーヨーで挟む散髪屋
風呂ん中 チェキ撮るな
ゴルフクラブでジャンプする
魚の声で洟が出る
パイプオルガン持ってみる
車の上で閃くマスカット図
ぜんざい輝かすオウム
カーテンを食べて打ち水
土嚢に紛れたサンバイザー
目とつま先が入れ替わってるセラピスト
ウツボの背中
落ち込むパスタ
腐る胸ぐら
瑪瑙の達磨
余りにも 特別な
澄み渡る 部署
紅蓮パレット
湿布貼って大義持った審判
井戸端で只仰け反ったチャンバー
膝のサイズ仇名に付けたパパ
卓袱料理干上がる商船 飛翔
浅はかにも灯るこんがらがったサルモネラ
心底窃盗マークの駆け足じゃ
どっちみち散漫
実験症の苦情が鮮烈に縺れ果てた
さっぱり忘れられる 初心なジュピター
あ～やっちゃった
罫線の外に並べた
譫言こそが本当のリアル
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The subtitle lyrics describe what’s literally happening in the MV until 1:14 when idto emerges and the lyrics devolve into nonsense as usual. I wonder if these lyrics were written first and the mv was later created to match them...
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youtube subtitle lyrics english
Something dwells within
Consciousness jumbled up
A hole opened up in a yellow aloe
A part of my thigh removed from this plane
A hanafuda card crossed into the offside
A barber playing with his yoyo in hand
I’m in the bath! Don’t take a pic [5]
Take flight with a golf club in hand
Fishy whispers that make my nose run
A pipe organ to hold and admire
Sit on top of a car and ponder fine muscat
A parrot excited by sparkling zenzai soup
Chew on a curtain and sprinkle some water
Disappear into a pile of sandbags wearing a visor
A therapist whose eyes have been swapped with his toes
A moray eel’s backside
A piece of pasta depressed
Like a rotten torso
An agate daruma doll
Altogether far too unique
Just to clarify, this department
A crimson palette
Spread out the poultice, judgement of great justice
A grand chamber somehow within the well’s wall
Papa, whose nickname was derived from his knee size
A merchant ship offering Japanese-Chinese cuisine
An overly-complicated salmonella shines pale
Run like there’s a calling card out for my heart
Either way’s fine, my halfhearted resolve
A mess of rising complaints about lab-sickness
Able to be forgotten completely, a beginner’s Jupiter
Ah, I’ve done it now~
Outside the outline all lined up
Within this delirium lies the real real
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[5]: It’s cute that this line breaks format. The text on the photo in the MV reads “The beard hero stands tall” which probably means exactly nothing.
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description lyrics
潜在して
混濁する意識
先輩面してるガガンボ
すごろくで身籠る山姥
ボンネットで暮らす友達
大体が王様のクラスタ
熱海じゃ 暴露自慢
ミトコンドリアが騒ぐ
消しゴムの空で拗ねる
祭囃子に骸骨
まるでパノラマじみたメトロノームの
数秒で牛が目覚めて
常温でレンガが落ちる
除け者のサンタが吠える
アブラカタブラ縛りで本屋大賞
メルカトルでも
刳り貫く真綿
あさきゆめみし
思考の彼方
当たりつき 奥座敷
馬頭琴 掻く
ゲーマーのトリオ
ジントニック振り絞った靭帯
ぐうたらして先細った戦隊
二層式の罠から抜けたなら
紙風船がグラフに変貌・失踪
はらわたを貪る4コマ漫画の踊り場
万札ラップパートでシャングリラの
瞳に乾杯
素頓狂で老獪なパトスのみすぼらしさ
引切り無しのままの ウニの住処
あ～やっちゃった
罫線の外に並べた
譫言こそが本当のリアル
description lyrics english
Something dwells within
Consciousness jumbled up
A cranefly with an patronizing attitude
A mountain witch pregnant with suguroku
A friend who lives on the hood of his car
What we’re dealing with here is a cluster of kings
A prideful boast, battleship Atami
The mitochondria dance and make merry
Sulk inside the hole poked in an eraser
A skeleton within the festival song
A cow that will awake In a couple of ticks
From the panorama-like metronome
A brick that will fall when it reaches room temp
An outcast Santa that cries out
A bestselling book on abracadabra shibari
A Mercator projection
Carved into silk
The Tale of Genji
The far reaches of the mind
A blow landed in the parlor
A matouqin all scratched up
A three-person trio of gamers
Gin tonic and strained ligaments
A squadron of slackers in the rear guard
Escape from the double-decker trap and
A paper balloon shifts into a graph and vanishes
A gut-munching 4-koma on the dance floor
A rap bar written on a 10,000 yen note
To hype up the eyes of Shangri-La
A crazed and sharp unsightly pathos
The sea urchins lie undisturbed
Ah, I’ve done it now~
Outside the outline all lined up
Within this delirium lies the real real
Google drive lyrics
潜在して
混濁する意識
陥没した苔の鼻歌
軒先で耽るまつり縫い
ベニヤ板の下にブラウザ
ヨーグルト踏むダーツ王者
クラップで塗る油
ベルトの星で悶える
イクラ売りから成金
田村と川田で踊る
オルトシフトで叶える松ぼっくり
乾いたカルタに味噌汁
おどろおどろしいプルタブ
ゲレンデの隙間にグリル
日の出の刻に驚く皇帝の妻
本意じゃないと
喚く流鏑馬
毒が震える
土のオルタナ
言葉では 届かない
フリルすら もう
コーヒーブレイク
ヒント待って残基減ったメンター
切り捨てるマルチカラーの縁談
ダブル海図燃やして口開けりゃ
禅問答で咥える防戦嗜好
瘡蓋が重なる冠ごっこの蕾が
煙突ベッド玩具じゃバレバレの
辛気臭えトンファー
ピーカンパイの幻想が均一に声を上げた
屈託ない笑顔のコントローラー
あ～やっちゃった
罫線の外に並べた
譫言こそが本当のリアル
Google drive lyrics english
Something dwells within
Consciousness jumbled up
A tune hummed by caved-in moss
Sit on the eaves sewing in a frenzy
A browser hidden under plywood boards
A darts champion who slipped on yogurt
A pile of crap coated in oil
Wriggle across Orion’s belt
Make a great fortune peddling roe
Dance with these fellows, Tamura, Kawata
A pinecone bestowed by orthoshifting
Miso soup seasoned with dried karuta cards
A frightening frightening pull tab
A grill tucked away in a ski slope
An emperor’s wife astonished by sunrise
That wasn’t what I meant [6]
Cry out during mounted archery
A shivering poison
A ground alternative
Words aren’t enough to convey it [6]
Not even frills are
Time for a coffee break
A mentor reduced waiting for a hint
Cancelled talks of multi-colored marriage
Set the double sea charts aflame and open wide
A zen riddle with a defensive tendency
A bud wearing a pretend-crown made of scabs:
Isn’t it obviously a toy for a chimney bed
A tedious irritating tonfa sword
Pecan pie fantasies relayed in even tone
A controller wearing a carefree smile [7]
Ah, I’ve done it now~
Outside the outline all lined up
Within this delirium lies the real real
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[6]: A brief moment of clarity just long enough to lament her inability to communicate it properly…
[7]: It’s implied elsewhere that idto is the one compelling this flow of nonsense, seeing as how the subtitle lyrics devolve after she shows up… I wonder if it makes sense to think of her as the “controller”.
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In conclusion I think idto and teto should kiss. hashtag yuri hashtag love wins
