One listen and I feel it was an easy write, but I also struggled in that I didn’t bring enough forward. I think I was trying to stick too close what happens with Final Fantasy VII’s plot plot when the song plays and that had a negative impact.

Nobuo Uematsu’s (植松 伸夫) “Lifestream” (“生命の流れ”) is from the soundtrack for Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Upon the growing strings percussion twinkles in a darkness. Steadily more is revealed as sound layers upon sound before it slightly fades and comes back in on the first percussive echo. More percussion shines, and moves slowly upon the sounds as they express the small grandness and wonder of it all.

A sense of beauty comes forward as the space afforded to the sounds lets them breathe and feel more expansive, and for a moment it is just the strings drawing long, drawing innocence and seriousness in equal measure.

That percussive echo returns, as does the second shining, and it becomes apparent that woodwind is there. It was there earlier, and now it seems more apparent as it rises and falls with the shining, and they slowly move through a history of balance.

Once more the strings are alone, and they fade out and the song ends.