One listen.

I first heard the soundtrack this is from yesterday. Might’ve actually heard the song a while ago, but if I did I wasn’t paying it the attention I should have. Anyway, I heard the whole soundtrack yesterday, decided to write about one of the songs, then another, then another… you get the idea.

This bit of writing, I don’t know. I do like it a lot, but I’m not sure if I captured the song well.

Joe Hisaishi’s (藤澤 守) “HANA-BI” is from Hana-Bi, the soundtrack for the Takeshi Kitano (北野 武) film, Hana-Bi.

I hope you enjoy.

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There’s a darkness and a conflict. Something weaves itself into a display, among a set of feelings. Feelings that are also hardening over as days move into days into days. Something stirs through the callousing, something stirs and rises, and asks questions. Is this all there is?

Almost a dancing upon a needle here, and getting heavy, and moving toward a conclusion most inevitable. One that could be seen as dire. There is hope to escape, but that hope fades away. Too old, perhaps, too far gone to see that change can be had. And within sterile halls and a within a world outside, some brief moments of joy penetrate a hardened exterior, but it doesn’t last long. A violent dance pulls back in and loss becomes another day. Loss ends up meaningless, and any spark of the hart was just another austere moment, shocking and colourful to the outside, and gray to those who take part.

But even so, there still is hope. The self is shaken, then sits still as the song ends.