One listen.

Wanted to write about this song for a few days and had concerns that I already had, but apparently I hadn’t, unless I did, in which case I can’t find what I wrote, so… yeah.

I think I did well here, though there are parts that I’d definitely tighten and expand upon here and there if I were to edit. I think I covered the song well enough. Part of that is that I had some ideas going in, though I didn’t quite use them as I figured I may have, and also due to the song sort of drifting. Maybe also due to having enough sleep or something. Don’t know.

Nobuo Uematsu’s (植松 伸夫) “Opening Theme” (“オープニング”) is from Final Fantasy V Original Sound Version, the soundtrack for Final Fantasy V.

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A stirring dawn on what are meant to be strings and some sort of choral voice – I think, and soon woodwind, and there’s something lightly melancholic here. It’s a waking up, and it’s gentle, and perhaps pointing toward an optimism, but within it is that melancholy, and within that builds something more tangible.

Sadness and departures, and ill portent. Concern, and with the strike of keys it becomes overtly heavy. Menacing, dread, and it pushes on down. It presses on down, and it keeps the pressure on with ease. Something is changing and the sounds keep their space here, but they still engulf all.

Strings stir once more as the menace expands and presses down more to reveal some sort of disaster. But it soon stops, and the stirring of the dawn once more. Lower, more gentle than before, but also more optimistic. There is hope in a journey ahead, and there is change, but that melancholy remains. Still, it settles, and it is part of what will come, and even though the heaviness remains, it doesn’t take over, and the future remains open as the song ends.