Where to Find and Understand the Come Come As You Are Lyrics
Most people searching for Come Come As You Are lyrics are looking for the theme song from the 2021-2022 NHK morning drama. The song is performed by Vaundy and titled "Maru" (). It became huge in Japan and pulled a lot of international attention to the show itself. I ran into this a while back when someone asked me to help translate some of the lyrics for a friend who was learning Japanese through dramas. The standard lyric sites had the romaji, but the translations were all over the place. Some were off by whole sentences. It took me a bit to get it right.
Come Come As You Are Lyrics
Here are the main lyrics from "Maru" by Vaundy:
waiting for you This roughly translates to something like: It's okay, you can cry. Don't carry it all alone without telling anyone. Being exactly as you are is fine. This place is always waiting for you.
The full lyrics continue with themes of acceptance and belonging, which mirrors the drama's story about two women across different eras finding their place in the world.
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Why the Lyrics Matter to the Drama
The NHK Asadora format is pretty rigid. You've got these daily half-hour episodes targeted at a domestic audience, and the theme song needs to reinforce the emotional core every single time it plays. "Maru" does that by sticking to a straightforward message rather than getting abstract. That's deliberate writing. Beginners sometimes assume the drama title is the song title. It isn't. The drama is "Come Come Eyoun" ( or more commonly known by its English title Come Come As You Are), and the song is "Maru." Mixing those up will send you down the wrong search result rabbit hole pretty quickly.
How to Access the Full Lyrics Legitimately
The official lyrics are available through several channels. Spotify and Apple Music display them in sync when you play the track. The YouTube music video for "Maru" has subtitles turned on by default. For the complete Japanese text with proper line breaks, sites like J-Lyric.net or Uta-Net have the full set, though you may need to search by artist name (Vaundy) rather than by drama title. I found that trying to piece together translations from Google Lens on still frames of the music video was slower and less accurate than just reading a properly formatted lyric site. The auto-translate output on individual phrases tends to produce awkward constructions that miss the conversational tone Vaundy is going for.
A Quick Note on Accuracy
Online lyric databases aren't always corrected quickly. I once spent twenty minutes cross-referencing a disputed line between two sites before just listening to the track at 0.75x speed. The lyric on one major site had an extra word tacked on that wasn't actually in the song. Listening slowly and writing it out yourself is faster than arguing with incorrect transcriptions. If you're using the lyrics for language study, pairing them with the drama scenes where the song plays helps a lot. The context anchors the meaning in a way that isolated translation work doesn't.
