One listen.

I’d been meaning to ramble about this song for a week or more now. Didn’t get around to doing so until now. Probably should’ve done it sooner as I think a bit of what it could’ve been has been lost. That said, I do think this gets across an idea of the song, albeit a bit of a loose one.

Bluelighter’s “At the End of the Road (Ruins of Lemuria)” is from Golden Sun: A World Reignited. The album is a tribute to Motoi Sakuraba’s (桜庭 統) soundtracks for Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and this song in particular is based on the theme for an area called Lemuria.

I hope you enjoy.

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A quick click of keys and a gentle rock, and it loops, then descend, and the keys press carefully. They put forward something akin to relief, perhaps, or that moment before relief.

The space fills with more keys, and here everything is presented. It is relief, and it is gentle, and full, but soon the pattern changes and it shifts toward the dramatic and the revelatory.

Keys are pressed with force, and the notes alternate before fading away in a rise. Once more gentle and now less overtly emotive. Now fragile, perhaps fading. The moment holds in the space.

The keys play low again and flow, and move toward another sense of revealing, and they pause for a moment. Once more back into a flight of the dramatic and overtly emotive, and they move and speed up, and find that strike that seems to indicate another lightness.

The keys retain the drama, and they curl and flicker up, and pause before rolling in full. They flow, and pause yet again, and shift back to fragility. They float in stillness, and drift along, and lower, and drift out their final notes as the song ends.