Floating in the void
What are you staring at your place?
Floating in the void
What are you staring at your place?
In a field of vision that keeps spinning
My path of retreat is cut off
And there can be no going back
The moment I knew it was already at an end,
The colour of the moon sinks beautifully reddened into oblivion
“Farewell” “Thank You” — All of it changed form
My unfeeling heart finally now cries out again with joy that I exist
The me you had known
Up until yesterday’s tomorrow
Is a Mindscape being slightly regenerated
Am I reaching you with a voice that seems cut short?
I love you
I LOVE YOU
From the heart
in the void,in the void.
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NOTES / INTERPRETATION:
Thoughts. The sense of urgency and disorienting, labyrinthine instrumental sections of this song make of it an epic fight for survival — survival of the heart, of the mind, and of the spirit. If the first song in the suite is a state of shock, then this song is the intensity of an unwavering will to exist. There are few lyrics in this song alongside the extended instrumentals and solos, but each line is filled with purpose and meaning.
The speaker’s field of vision is spinning, and time stops making sense (there are tense clashes, not to mention the dizzying line “up until yesterday’s tomorrow” to mean “today”), but in the mazelike chaos of the music, the speaker regains their mental bearings and projects their intent throughout the void.
I can’t help but think of the inky blackness of space, and of the way that there would be no way to orient yourself, no landmarks of any kind — just you and your mental landscape against the endless darkness.
Did the final sight of a beautifully reddened moon — the only bit of tangible imagery in these lyrics — provide an impetus to fight back towards existence, fight against a death of self?
I don’t know.
But this song is an exhilarating, epic climb… or descent… into the void. A triumph.
And as a love song is just really, really fucking cool.
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アリス九號. ★ ALICE NINE.
GEMINI-I-the void
GEMINI (2011)
17th THEATRE (2021)
Lyrics by 将/SHOU
Music by 沙我/Saga
Original text translated from Japanese.
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