![]() Shall we meet again next month at that place? These warmly embraced feelings dance in the night skyĪnd rapidly plummet and arrive at your feet, so Until you're done, I'll be waiting here always That's why this beautiful piece of music still makes me openly cry as a grown adult. It's the song reaching out to you, because the entire game's message is about being in this together. It's painful, and you want that pain to be seen, but you can't show it, because 'I have to keep going'. Because it's easy to feel alone when you have to choose to keep rolling. It's the song recognizing that if you're hearing its message, you're probably hurting. It's not about romanticizing being a dramatic, lone figure, in a goofy Japanese-y way. The refrain line isn't 'Your lonely rolling star'. What got to me though, was when that video got to the chorus, and I realized something. All of these things would be a good explanation for why this song still makes me cry. ![]() It's really tragic and bittersweet, and it hits even harder when you know the story of the singer, who actually lost a friend before recording this. It's about losing someone, and wanting to see them again, so you have to decide to keep living for them. The video had lyrics, romaji and translated.Īnd I start getting the picture, that yeah, this was always a sad song. It still gets to me a little, because it's Lonely Rolling Star of course it does, but still.īut here's the thing. And I'm older, and I'm handling it a bit better than I used to. I remember youtube exists and I have the power to look these things up whenever I want. ![]() Now of course I know it's because this track is beautifully composed to be bittersweet even across language barriers, but at the time, as a dumb little neurodivergent kid, I didn't know why it felt like it was making me cry.įast-forward about half a decade, I'm thinking about Katamari again, and I remember the soundtrack. But I'd always ask him to skip levels that played this song, because it made me sad and I didn't know why. He had this game, and I remember having a lot of fun with it. I didn't own any Sony consoles so I'd usually just watch him play stuff and it would be a great time. Back when I was a little kid, I had an older cousin who I'd stay over with a lot.
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