One listen.

I did a few checks on this one to see if I’d written it before. Yesterday I found out that I wrote about “Brink of Time” (“時の最果て”) twice, so I combined them into one piece. Been a bit zealous in my checking since. Perhaps overzealous.

I think I was trying to do better than I did yesterday. I mean, I’m always trying to do better, but I felt I dropped the ball yesterday and really wanted to correct, and I’m not sure if I was successful, but I’m happy with my attempt. That said, I didn’t move around enough. Sort of got stuck a bit.

Nobuo Uematsu’s (植松 伸夫) “Sealed Door” (“封印の扉”) is from Chrono Trigger‘s soundtrack, Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version. Whilst the soundtrack is mainly Yasunori Mitsuda’s (光田 康典) work, Nobuo composed some of its tracks.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys come in, fragile and perhaps lonely. Gloomy. Strings follow soon and there is another scaling in the background. A dramatic punctuation, and it’s all weighted. Weighted heavily.

A sort of loop before continuing on, getting across a sense of heaviness still, perhaps pushing it further down. Some sounds then pull away and a little light in the gloom, but more a continuing hope of sorts in this thick darkness. Perhaps it’s a moment of dedication, and the strings return and push it on back down.

A return to the start and that hope and dedication remains. There remains a pushing onward despite how hopeless things seem, and then when it gets back to that lighter section there’s curiosity. Mystery and the questions that may come, and naturally some answers by only pushing through. Even when the strings return again, it remains, but it’s faint as there is hope, but it needs the right action and time.

The sounds fade and the song ends.