I remastered it after getting some advice on how to make the vocals more comprehensible. I think it turned out well, and it's already been on my Youtube channel for a while, so I'll stop being lazy and put the new version on here, finally.

Re-uploaded because of some lovely advice I got from someone on VocaloidOtaku that made the vocals actually sound decently comprehensible. I love how Youtube doesn't have a way to change a video's audio track to something else from your own computer without deleting the old video and re-uploading.

This song took me about a month and a half to write. I started it about as soon as I finished and published Memento, and only just finished it now. I had some pretty major writer's block partway through, that led me to start three other projects before continuing with this. Two of them are still unfinished and I might come back to them, and the third one is my Heartmender remix that I uploaded not long ago.

This my second time using Luka. I'm still not entirely used to the software yet, but I'm getting there. Getting the lyrics to be understandable is way harder than it needs to be. I appreciate any feedback you guys can give me, it all helps.

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Lyrics:

I turn my head to the covered sky
I feel cooling drops landing on my skin
Not a single break in the clouds
As far as I can see
Then suddenly
You were standing there
You’re like a ray of light
To cut the steely gray above
But before long you were gone again
And you left me in the rain

What could I do
To make you stay?
If I were to change my ways
Would this rain still fall?

Cast away in the pouring rain
I don’t know where I came from
I don’t know where I’m going
I’m just alone again
Until I learn to move on by myself
Rainfall continues
Until the end of time
Until I find someone else who can help me through
This life that I lead on my own
A life in the rain
Or a life with you

I stand up straight and look around myself
The fog is thick, and I can only see so far
But this is all I can think to do
Since I was left all alone
There’s no one here
No one but me
I’ll strike out on my own
And show the world what I can do
And maybe then I’ll see you again
And you can see how far I’ve come

What could I do
To make you stay?
If I were to change my ways
Would this rain still fall?

Cast away in the pouring rain
I don’t know where I came from
I don’t know where I’m going
I’m just alone again
Until I learn to move on by myself
Rainfall continues
Until the end of time
Until I find someone else who can help me through
This life that I lead on my own
A life in the rain
Or a life with you

As I look up again
I see the sky is clearing
I’ll keep on moving forward
I know that I’m alone
But now I can stand on my own legs
Clouds are breaking apart
Up in the darkened sky
And I can finally see the sun above
Shining down on me
The rain has stopped
And my life goes on

Rainfall feat. Megurine Luka

Lyrics:

As you lay there, waiting for the night
I’m so far away, locked within the endless dream
What is it that you wanted me to see?
To get stronger now, that’s all there is for me

I reach my hand out to take ahold of yours
Just like you did for me, so long ago
I did everything that you did, our fearless leader
So come with me, I’ll show you how far we’ve come

I’ve gone so far to help this family you built
Even if I don’t remember it, I know you saw it
There’s so much I’ll do
To have you back with me

I know you’re doing this for us
We once were weak, but you built us up
What happened to you? Some tragedy?
That left you so dead and hopeless

I can't bear to see you this way
Lift your head up and follow me

I know we’ll have to leave this sheltered world behind
But I know that we will find our way

We'll finally go out into the world
To show that we can make it on our own
But to leave you behind,
It doesn’t feel right

I'll go back into my past
I’ll fix myself so I can save you all
So one day, maybe
We’ll all be together again

Refrain feat. Megurine Luka

Lyrics:

A poor, lost child
Wandering through a broken world
Nowhere to call your home,
No one to call family
You’ve been dealt a losing hand
You’ve done the best you can

You were tossed into the trash
By the ones you thought you could trust
No longer of use to them,
Now you’re out of sight, and out of mind
But now you can have that peace
That you wanted so badly

I know everyone has things
They’d rather keep to themselves

(What did you see?)
A horrible sight
That can never be taken back
(What did they do?)
They wrote you off, cast you out
And tossed you to the side
(Where are you now?)
A peaceful life,
But they want to take it all away
(What will you do?)
You’ll fight back,
There’s no running away anymore

All that you wanted was
A chance to live your life, nothing more
Is that too much to ask
Is it not your destiny?
There’s always something coming
To throw you off the road

I know everyone has things
They’d rather keep to themselves

Everyone has times when they feel like 
They don’t know where they’re going
We lose our way
And can’t get any sense of direction
That’s why I’m here to help you
And get you on your way

The pain you feel will fade away
As time goes on
Time heals all, if you let it
Don’t hold yourself back
It’s up to you, 
The path you take

I know everyone has things
They’d rather keep to themselves

(What did you see?)
A horrible sight
That can never be taken back
(What did they do?)
They wrote you off, cast you out
And tossed you to the side
(As time goes by…)
Your old wounds heal,
You return to who you were before
(But even then…)
The pain remains,
Always buried away in your mind
(Where are you now?)
A peaceful life,
But they want to take it all away
(What will you do?)
You’ll fight back,
There’s no running away anymore

Iris feat. Megurine Luka

No direction,
Like there’s nowhere to go
You run around and find yourself
Right where you began
You fall apart
Under the weight of the burden on your back
Collapsing onto the cold, hard ground
You want to fade away

The wind blows through
As you look up to the sky
And as you close your eyes
You get back on your feet

And you run, run, run
Like you’ve never run before
Get up, get up
And face the rising sun
That brightens up
The eastern sky
And stretches out
So wide above you

Leave behind
Everything that holds you back
Break on out
Of the cage that you were living in
Time goes on,
As it always has
It’s not as if the sky
Has come falling down

You see other people pass you by
Leaving you so far behind
But what you don’t see
Is the load they need to carry

But when you fall
You will need to stand again
And you’re not alone
Someone is there for you

So you go, go, go
As far as you can go
Keep up, keep up
Don’t fall too far behind
But if you do
I’ll wait for you
I’ll make sure
You find your way

Don’t be scared
Because I’m here for you
Always there
To help you stand again
Life goes on,
And it always will
It’s not as if the sky
Will come falling down

The wind blows through
As you look up to the sky
And as you close your eyes
You get back on your feet

From the distant sky
Down to the busy streets
You carry on

So you go, go, go
As far as you can go
Keep up, keep up
Don’t fall too far behind
But if you do
I’ll wait for you
I’ll make sure
You find your way

Don’t be scared
Because I’m here for you
Always there
To help you stand again
Life goes on,
And it always will
It’s not as if the sky
Will come falling down

Run, run, run
Like you’ve never run before
Get up, get up
And face the rising sun
That brightens up
The eastern sky
And stretches out
So wide above you

Leave behind
Everything that holds you back
Break on out
Of the cage that you were living in
Time goes on,
As it always has
It’s not as if the sky
Has come falling down

The Sky Is Falling

A comet, a shooting star
A tiny point of light in the nighttime sky
So far away, but still your light can reach me
Where are you? Will I ever reach you?
Or did you burn out long ago?
You’re still up there guiding me
I’ll follow you

I know it’s up there
Hidden in the sea of stars
I’m a traveler, lost in the darkness
What am I looking for?
Where will my journey take me?
The mindless search for meaning in a pointless universe

Is this all I’ll ever be?
The aimless wanderer in an unending night
Searching on and on and on
Until the day when I can find your dying light

The world races by below my feet
As I fly so high above the ground
The stars shining bright in the sky above me
They guide me higher and higher

Pulling me along like rushing current
I let myself get swept along
Into the distant stars
They call to me and I answer
The only way that I know how

These chains that hold me down
And bind me to the ground
Can I cast them away
Can I reclaim my life
The hope that you can be the light
That guides me into that life
Without it there, I’ll always end up
Right where I began

A comet, a shooting star
A tiny point of light in the nighttime sky
So far away, but still your light can reach me
Where are you? Will I ever reach you?
Or did you burn out long ago?
You’re still up there guiding me
I’ll follow you

The world races by below my feet
As I fly so high above the ground
The stars shining bright in the sky above me
They guide me higher and higher

Pulling me along like rushing current
I let myself get swept along
Into the distant stars
They call to me and I answer
The only way that I know how

Four Walls feat. Megurine Luka (remastered)

Made with Megurine Luka V4 English as my entry for the Miku Expo 2018 Song Contest.

Lots of thanks to @zimbolt for help with mixing and mastering.

Lyrics:

As the dark of night begins to fall
And the stars shine in the eastern sky
The city lights come on all around me
And drown out the coming night
It’s a scene I’ve seen a thousand times before
As dazzling lights surround me
But tonight there’s something new in the darkness
Yet it’s something that I know well

The face I’ve seen and the voice I’ve heard
That life I lived in a distant dream
As I see you there inside the glass
Like a window to another world

And you stand right there, reach your hand out to me
And I could reach you if I would only try
But I know what I see is just wishful thinking
A trick of the fading light

In the window of a passing car
In a mirror seen out of the corner of my eye
You’re always there so close to me
You’re always watching over me
Can you tell me why I know your face?
Can you tell me why you make me feel this way?
A sadness deep inside my heart
A feeling like I’m being torn apart
Can you tell me just one simple thing
Before you fade away

As I wake up with the rising sun
A shaft of light upon my face
I’m feeling like there’s something I forgot
Like I lost something close to me
A memory of another world
Like a life parallel to mine
I turn my head toward the sunrise
And I see you there again

And you sit right there, with that smile on your face
Like a parent watching a sleeping child
I see your lips move, but you don’t say a word
And then you’re gone again

In the window of a passing car
In a mirror seen out of the corner of my eye
You’re always there so close to me
You’re always watching over me
Like a vision or a memory
Like something from another life
And you’re the one I’m meant to see
And take me where I’m meant to be
As someone from that other life
From worlds apart, I’ll always follow you

Worlds Apart

Made with Megurine Luka V4X English. I first started working on this about a year ago. It feels good to have it finally finished.

Lyrics:

The long and empty moonlit road
Like a borderline dividing the horizon
And all these things I left along the way
They try to hold on and pull me down

But I can’t stop or turn around
Keep pushing onwards, leave the past behind
Do I even know where it is I want to go?
Does it even matter, do I have another choice?

No matter how hard I try, it always catches up to me
All those things I always tried to lose
Is it me who can’t let go?
I look around, just the same thing in a different place
And you’re always just standing there
Your face may change but your voice is still the same

Those same old words
I see right through the empty smile you’re wearing like a mask
But I know all too well that I’m really not much better
I keep my head down, grin and bear it
So someday, somehow maybe
I can finally move on and leave this place behind

Every time I wanted to stop and rest
I tell myself that I am almost there
Really, I don’t know how much longer it will be
It’s all I can do to just keep myself sane

I feel like these are things that I must do
A minor victory in each step I take
No matter how much it may feel like I’ve lost
All I can do is keep on moving

The same old words
You see right through the empty smile I’m wearing like a mask
But you know all too well that I’ve always been this way
I keep my head down, grin and bear it
But as you take my hand 
You show me that’s not how things need to be

The same old road
I keep on walking down the road I thought I knew so well
But now I feel like it’s something new
All these things I thought I left behind
I carry with me deep within me

Vagabond

A shining light, a white burns my eyes
Radiating out into the darkness all around me
Breaking up, as colours fill my sight
Everything that I had never seen

All laid bare, it’s all so overwhelming
I shield my eyes but I can still see it clearly
The blinding light moves on into the sky
Shattering into a million stars

Layers add, and build a whole new world
My vision clears, I see it all right there before me
The stars, the lights, the sounds, the colours all around
I’m losing myself in what I see

Can you hear it? Ringing through the night
A rising symphony of sound and light

I just relax and let it carry me
Surrendering myself to the flow

Will you take my hand?
Will you let it take you too?
Will you simply lose yourself
In the rhythm of the night?

Please come with me
And let me show you
How it feels
To let yourself be free

Just relax and let it carry you
Surrender yourself to the flow

Will you take my hand?
Will you let it take you too?
Will you simply lose yourself
In the rhythm of the night?

This world is made for us
Nothing else needs to matter here
Let the music take your heart
Let the colours soothe your soul

Please come with me
And let me show you
How it feels
Just to let yourself be free

Can you hear it? Ringing through the night
A rising symphony of sound and light

Spectrum

A song about feeling like you've hit a standstill in life. When it seems like every path open to you leads to a dead end, it can be easy to lose track of where you want to go – and even of your sense of identity.

Art by me.

Steppin’ up, I’m on top of the world right now
Feelin’ like nothing can bring me down
Starting strong, seems like it’s going well

Slowing down, like I’m losin’ momentum
But still got that voice that tells me to run
I’m still losin’ steam, it’s all gone to hell

Breakdown, hit the ground, you’re always kicked around
Fallin’ back, havin’ a panic attack right now
Stress builds, lost your will, always left behind
Lookin’ like it’s time
To go back and start again

Steppin’ up again, like some déjà vu
Things went wrong, but this is what I need to do
I think this second shot’s all I need

Tunnel vision, I can’t see the signs
The kind of focus that just makes you blind
Just the same as before is all I see

I crash again, just like before
But I try to pick myself up off the ground
Start from zero, but I’ve lost track
Of just which “zero” I am on now

I’ve hit the wall again
How many times has it been
Losing sight of what I want to be
I thought I knew once
But now I’ve lost track
Like I don’t even know who I am anymore

Killin’ time, that’s all I do now
Motivation gone, as I just sit around
Wondering where I went wrong
And what I could have been

Breakdown, hit the ground, you’re always kicked around
Fallin’ back, havin’ a panic attack right now
Stress builds, lost your will, always left behind
Lookin’ like it’s time
To go back and start again

New year, new me? That’s what they always say
But already I can see that there’s no way
Maybe I’ll waste it all like I did the last one

Bit by bit, that’s all I try to do
But it seems like everyone’s able to move
All the time, I’m just being left behind

Starting over, yet again
Like I think that I have found the right path
They try to stop me, but here I go
I’m pushing through, gonna do it right

I crash again, just like before
But I try to pick myself up off the ground
Start from zero, but I’ve lost track
Of just which “zero” I am on now

I’ve hit the wall again
How many times has it been
Losing sight of what I want to be
I thought I knew once
But now I’ve lost track
Like I don’t even know who I am anymore

Killin’ time, that’s all I do now
Motivation gone, as I just sit around
Wondering where I went wrong
And what I could be

Breakdown, hit the ground, you’re always kicked around
Fallin’ back, havin’ a panic attack right now
Stress builds, lost your will, always left behind
Lookin’ like it’s time
To go back and start again

Start Again

This is something I started in mid-2018 and left to sit pretty much ever since. I decided to finish it now, so here it is.

Like Black And White

I'm a musician, composer and starting Vocaloid producer, working mainly with Megurine Luka.

Solbasa

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