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Boundless Myth - Normal Battle Edit -
Thunderous Roar
Memoria of 'He'

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I have forgotten the face of my father, clearly, if this is what I think he sounds like. It sounds almost self-obsessed, the way it sticks with one melody idea for so long. It's too much! The jazz improv stuff is interesting, but it's so hard for me to enjoy recorded improvization. I refuse to spell that word with an S. It feels like it's missing the point to me, you know? So much of it is about connecting with and jiving with the audience, so when you just did something in a recording studio and I am hearing it a year later, something is lost. Meanwhile we get chanting over a Yuki Kajiura-style violin? Ooh. Actually yeah, minus the fact that the singer doesn't sound like anyone Kajiura's worked with AFAIK, you could tell me this was composed by Kajiura and I'd believe you. And considering she's one of my favorite composers, that's high praise. Also I guess this is another lyrics day! (there's one on the wiki, but I don't like it so TIME TO MAKE MY OWN.)

I wish I were still ignorant of this song. wow that was mean of me. The starting rhythm is certainly interesting. But I feel like the song passed me by without ever leaving anything in my memory. The opening of Thunderous Roar is wonderfully foreboding, and then we shift to some really nice piano work over a cool techno melody. (THIS is how you do a fast piano, Silver Bullet!) And it keeps shifting! I like lots of ideas! God, what a cool piece. How was that only 2 minutes? I feel like I've heard hours of brilliance.

I don't mind the slow intro into a mournful... oboe? I think it's an oboe. And I don't mind repeating the melody up an octave. But now that's gone away, replaced with a vaguely atmospheric guitar, and I see almost three minutes have gone by and--and now we're repeating the oboe's melody with that guitar? And now we're going again with a bit of doubling? I love buildup in a song -- Electric Power Building, This Silence Is Mine, Yamiyo no Prologue: they're all some of my favorite songs for a reason -- but I find myself bored. A good buildup song layers something new on top, gets more interesting over time. But Lullaby never outperformed that initial oboe version. oh no it's a double lyrics day. I'm not as much of a fan of this song, it's very standard jpop, but hey I like standard jpop. But maybe i'll skip lyricizing this song, if I'm busy.

Gunvolt has consistently done more with less time. okay lyric time:

With a word do I act
With a word do I create
With a word do I destroy
With each sinking do I rise anew, for I am the Sun!

The Book of the Dead, set down in time immemorial
Commencing Heaven and Earth, guiding it,
Melting the distant, blurry boundary of the horizon: A mythic episode

Ra! Your demesne knoweth no limit
Ra! We offer prayer, that the sun riseth once more

Onward, I as ever lie down: a future unchanging
Our festivities, ever regular
Igniting flames the color of blood oozing dully from the corners of the mouth: A mythic episode

Ra! Your hands know no regret
Ra! Remain luminescent high above our head

stopping here for tonight because i don't feel like doing more, and also the normal battle edit ends here. Also in the process I found the full version and it looks like the wiki's lyrics are both official and machine translated. Why do I live in the worst timeline.