A wrong lyric

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Hello everyone,I recently got a wrong lyric note of a CD album. When I was listening to a song, I noticed there was a difference  between the song I was listening to and the lyric written in the note. Then I looked it up on the internet, they posted the same lyric I expected.Is it likely the issues like that happens easily? Although I wanted to be able to sing the song, looking the lyric...Thank you for your reading.

Sambda · Accepted Answer

As I understand it, lyrics in CD booklets etc. are supposed to be the ones officially published as the lyrics of the song (publishing a song is a legal process). Often, the artist/s involved revise things in the studio, so what comes out on the finished track is slightly different.

Japanese CD/records were famous for transcribing the lyrics straight from the recording by people with a very poor grasp of English. They would then translate the lyrics, again poorly, back to English. You can imagine the result! There used to be a website out there where mangled lines from famous songs would be quoted from Japanese CD bookets.

Achamo · Answer

Sorry I am not really good at English, so it is likely I don't understand you.

If I understand correctly, you meant: First, CD booklets of lyrics are decided and printed before the songs are recorded. On the other hand, artists try improving their songs until the deadline of the CDs that are released.

Is that why the booklets and actual songs are different?

And you meant the translation from English into Japanese is extremely bad here?

Thank you for your reply.

Sambda · Answer

AchamoSorry I am not really good at English, so it is likely I don't understand you.
If I understand correctly, you meant: First, CD booklets of lyrics are decided and printed before the songs are recorded. On the other hand, artists try improving their songs until the deadline of the CDs that are released.
Is that why the booklets and actual songs are different?

Yes, you have understood me correctly.

AchamoAnd you meant the translation from English into Japanese is extremely bad here?

Yes, the translation from English to Japanese is bad. But on Japanese CDs they also often give the lyrics in English too, as well as Japanese. However, they get the English lyrics they use by translating the Japanese lyrics back to English (rather than using the English originals). So there are two chances to make mistakes: English to Japanese, and Japanese back to English!

Achamo · Answer

Thank you for your quick response!

I don't want to get a Japanese lyric back to English since I guess that is almost totally different from the original...

I personally think the translations into Japanese "Stand By Me" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" that I have are good. The reason I think so is I got goose bumps from the lyrics.

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