One listen for this one and I found myself needing to catch up in a few places.
I think I struggled a fair bit and it comes through as there’s snort of a slowing and speeding up in what I wrote. I don’t think I covered the song well enough either. The writing is okay, but there is a lot that’s lacking, I think.

ACE’s “The Great Sea Stirs” is from the soundtrack for Xenoblade 3 aka Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Xenoblade 3 Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A flow of strings, keys, brass and possibly woodwind and they all rise up and soon they are off. Along with other instrumentation they reach for a dramatic space; there is grandeur in the journey forward and it is about that moving forward, come what may.

Certainty glides behind as the breeze moves on through and around and a vast expanse of water lies in all directions, and all keep on driving. The vastness is there but there is one path to follow.

The sounds dip for a moment, or at least pull back and brass takes over, then a dramatic pause before another thrust. Here the sounds expand into a greater grandeur than before. They rise and the sounds of voices move along announcing horns. There is a build and a rise and a lifting out of the more sombre seriousness into a sense of accomplishment, or at least ideal to see everything through.

It all keeps going and suddenly some of it pulls away and the sounds pause in the air for a moment; they keep moving but they hold before all drops back down to the previous space and they push on, and they are vast, and they find a definitive note to punctuate everything that came before, and the song ends.