One listen.

I heard this song a couple of hours ago, decided to write about it. It’s pretty pleasant. Pretty straightforward, and that’s all it needs to be. I went in, did my best to capture that, and not sure that I did well, but something came forward and so that something is what I wrote about.

Level 99’s “No Matter Where You go, This Will Always be Home”, a cover? adaptation? of “Hometown”, from Mega Man Battle Network, is from For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man, a tribute album celebrating… 25 years… of Mega Man games…

I hope you enjoy.

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Light, joyous guitar stirs and plays easy and relaxed. It moves through lowering and rising, and seems to reminisce. It moves through the space with some sort of fun, pauses, plays smooth, plays easy.

A moment that seems like a chorus fills out and it remains joyous. It remains happy, but there’s something a little sad in this. There’s some longing, even when it all fills out and becomes carefree, and gliding, almost.

That opening melody returns and guitar seems to cascade around, and it’s almost like driving. It’s like moving, and remembering it all, and it all flows. It all comes back, and brings innocence forward. Innocence and joy, laughter, annoyance, all those things we miss when we think of the past.

A solo of sorts comes in and it doesn’t break the mood. It continues on and interweaves the mood and imagery in a specific way, almost to see where all the memories come together, and almost to bring them to the present.

Still, that longing remains. That sadness is there, because these days will eventually come to an end, and they had before, but there’s still fun to be had, so the fun continues as the song ends.