music & lyrics \/ Hazuki<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but the end is already nigh
even that piercing smile is gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i lament the future, without knowing where to head next
i keep walking, i keep crying, although nothing changes <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the red of that day wilts and falls
the burning flames walk again too<\/p>\n\n\n\n
spilling blood to protect, killing each other to protect
those days continued on and on, i thought they’d never end<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through to the end from now,take by your hand,gaze into last rays. the perfectly clear blue sky cast down the end and disappeared spilling blood to protect it, killing each other to protect it praying for a tomorrow that will never come again <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Continuation of \u300cabove the skin\u300d) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As written, this song is a direct continuation of above the skin<\/a>. In UNDERNEATH_FILES VOL. 3, Hazuki says that many people asked him about the “but” at the end of above the skin. He said he wrote it with a continuation mind, but didn’t want to complete the story and end the world of that song. Eventually he decided a continuation would be interesting, and tied above the skin’s first line together with from the end’s last line (“praying for a tomorrow that will never come again”), so they loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The interviewer and Hazuki further discuss the lyrics and eventually cover the theme in detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Interviewer: The lyrics are pretty concrete. I: This is something that’s happening now, in the era we live in. I: Situations like this are happening somewhere in the world, right? Not that you were trying to express such a thing so straightforwardly, but what were you thinking you wanted to convey? I: War is like that. I: I feel like just thinking about that conveys something. I: So it turned into a feeling of overlooking these viewpoints? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" music & lyrics \/ Hazuki but the end is already nigh even that piercing smile is gone i lament the future, without knowing where to head nexti keep walking, i keep crying, although nothing changes the red of that day wilts and fallsthe burning flames walk again too spilling blood to protect, killing each other … Continue reading from the end<\/span>
If I can be reincarnation,if the day will come when find you again.
I wish to take by this hand once again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
a powerful light burned through the dark, and we disappeared
only the shadows of us, our hands atop one another, remain there now
our ceaseless prayers go beyond time, an unfulfilled wish <\/p>\n\n\n\n
i keep screaming, i keep crying, even if i can’t change a thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hazuki: It was rather unpleasant to write. It was so graphic I was disgusted\u2026 The image is vivid. And part of it is in English, right? At first this was all Japanese. Then I was seriously disheartened when I looked over the whole thing, (laugh), like I can’t sing this during a show\u2026 So I made it English. I didn’t force it, but\u2026 I intended it to be all Japanese at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H: I’ve never come into any contact with this, and I don’t know anything about it\u2026 Why did I write it? It wasn’t this clear with ‘above the skin’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H: Hmm\u2026 I don’t really want people to think or feel anything specific when they hear this, but\u2026 “spilling blood to protect, killing each other to protect”. I wanted to write this line. Who is right and who is wrong is really a matter of perspective, both of them are killing each other with a sense of justice\u2026 Both sides have people they want to protect. It’s so sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H: Yep. Both sides are right, in their own eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H: With “above the skin” I wasn’t thinking of war at all\u2026 Here, with light burning that darkness, I think people can understand that it’s war. In “above the skin”, it was the egoism of the emotions that humans have\u2026 It was about ego, like if you look at something from a different viewpoint, it may have been affection. That’s what I was depicting, but now it’s like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H: No, instead the viewpoint feels fixed. It turned into something definite.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n