One listen for this one.

I struggled to get to a point where I’d start writing and I think that maybe writing about this song wasn’t the best idea. When I got started I was okay but it took a really long time just to get to that point. I think the writing suffers for it and so whilst this looks more into how the song feels, it could be much better.

Masanori Hikichi (曳地 正則) and Miyoko Kobayashi’s (小林 美代子) “Tunnel Inside the Sun” is from Terranigma. From what I can see the song is yet to be released in any official capacity and may also be known as “The Gaia Stone”.

I hope you enjoy.

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Flickering here and there and something echoes above. Strings seep into this twisted environment, and all continues moving in ways that seem off.

Moments of strings here and there, seemingly trying to connect whilst pressing into the conflict between what was and what now is. Oscillations of sound creep in and in the distance something almost heroic approaches. It looks here and there and it seems to keep on coming but it remains at a distance, and it’s trying to be heroic but it cannot reach. It cannot arrive and it carries an urgency in tension, stress, pressure and despair.

That heroism disappears and soon there’s a return to the flickering alone. As there’s a build in atmosphere all fades out and the song ends.