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"you can come through anything..."
and it helps to have a friend.
Wandering the streets, the survivor looks pleadingly at the white dots in the blue-black sky-is anyone up there caring? He turns his eyes back to the ground, littered with rubble. As he walks on, he looks at the now broken places he and his friends once congregated, the remains of the restaurant his family used to eat at when he was a child, the park where he'd had his first real date. The bench where he'd kissed her was half-crushed by who knows what.
He turns his head away. The grief is too much.
Walking on, he comes to the remnants of a hospital, once the most respected place to have your life saved. It was full the night the city fell. The irony does not escape him. A piece of rubble falls-a lonely sound.
The first rays of light begin to illuminate the sky.
Another piece of debris tumbles to the ground. A small voice curses the stones on top of it. The survivor runs to help, tears away the rubble with desperate hands. A girl-woman really, but young-soon emerges from the pile of shattered hospital. Dust-covered and shaken, her hands clench and unclench a small white nurse's cap as she turns to survey the damage done.
The sun crests the horizon.
"I guess the first thing to do is to find the other survivors." Her voice is strong.
"I've already found one."
"You have, haven't you?" She smiles. "Forever in your debt, by the way. Now come on, friend. There's work to do."
There is yet hope.
(yeah, i'm long-winded.)
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That's amazingly good. I'm really just enchanted-this song brings to mind so many possible scenes--it's this happy background to anything really, but it makes me think especially of epics and middle-ages England and that sort of thing.
As far as the music goes technically, it's really great background (like I said before) for singing, like what you'd expect for some English folk tune. If you were to make this as a "single" (by which I mean a stand-alone sort of piece), I would think that you'd want to smooth out some of the choppiness in parts (like around 1.45 with the cello I think it is or the bells around 2.00). As a pianist, the only way I can describe it would be "use the damper pedal". So not legato exactly, but not quite as cut off.
I really liked the shape of the piece, most of all the expansion at 1.16.
This song is glorious.
Author's Response:
haha thanks Hynra ^^
Lol, I was hoping no one noticed the bad cello - cause that was one of the only things I didn't like about it, and you're the first person to notice^^
I might update it with the cello envelope how i want not just how east west have it
thankyou again :)
EDIT: Fixed that cello^^ the bells didn't seem much of a problem and I beefed up the finale with another piano :P
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MAN!!! That's just EXCELLENT!!! You are definitely my favorite right now... :)
Maybe I'm imagining things here, but I thought I heard a little Metroid Prime influence around 0:40 and onward... that's cool, though, so please don't be insulted if I'm wrong!
Kind of a Doors-y feel to this, too, now that I think about it...
5/5, 10/10
Great work!!
Author's Response:
lol metroid prime? I'm assuming it's a game. All I know is metroid is some girl in a robot suit lmao. I'm guessing its the square purity instrument that reminds you of metroid prime :c
No offense taken so everythin's good
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Finish it oh please oh please!!
Maybe instead of guitar you could find a similar-sounding substitute....just an idea.
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It's very subtle after it switches tone, but it can seem a little too soft at times (but maybe that's my volume on the computer)
Why is it called "vigilantes"? Just wondering.
Author's Response:
Thanks much. Yeah, I kinda noticed that too about the volume.
It's short for Michigan Has No Vigilantes. It was the name of my old band that I did programming and stuff in... Buuut, it died after a couple months.
Awww shit, I spelled Vigilantes wrong.
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That song is an endorphin machine for me...I'm all smiles!! ^_^
Great remix, too! Skilfully done!
Keep it up!!
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That's just neat. Industrial, futuristic, dark, and very sinister.
Seems vaugely like Radiohead's "Climbing up the Walls" to me in some parts, particularly around 2:40.
You're a new favorite artist of mine.
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That's just too pretty to be real. I swear, either you're magical or I'm hallucinating such a beautiful song.
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If I'd known who you were at the time, I'd have considered this a great holiday gift.
You're really good!
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That's just totally cool.
:)
Definitely like it!
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