One listen for this one.

I had a few restarts so I decided I’d pause at parts to try and capture my thoughts better. I don’t think it was the best way to go about doing this, but it’s what I did and I think the writing is kind of better for it. Kind of. I got a lot more out than I normally would and I think that, in this particular case, it gets a much better idea of the song across.

Mitsuto Suzuki’s (鈴木光人) “The Angel’s Tears” (“天使の涙”) is from the soundtrack for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack is comprised of compositions from Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦 正志), Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志) and  Mitsuto Suzuki.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sadness wafts in, and from a thin line woodwind rises. As it does it seems to offer some sort of counter from the dramatic and into whimsy. It seems like it will take over, then a scattering of keys sweeps everything away and descends into silence, and some sort of unease.

Keys continue on and take the lead, pressing parts and letting that sadness come further in, but with an oddness. Soon it’s back to woodwind leading, however, and it seems that moment repeats what just came before. Then it all compresses and sounds compressed in a way that comes across as referencing memory, perhaps, but it seems chopped. It “flows” but there are cuts and it does not flow.

The key scattering returns, seemingly adding some sort of tension or distortion, twisting and warping. When they fade out percussive ringing with some sort of ambient sound seem to caress, but everything feels off. Everything feels twisted, and this isn’t as gentle as perhaps it should seem, and it continues on into a low hum that quickly fades.

Once more a repeat with woodwind, and it seems more comforting this time, but before anything is solidified the sounds fade out and the song ends.