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Atop a Singing Mountain (Chrono Trigger)


Cyril the Wolf
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http://cyril.arnoldascher.com/covers/atopasingingmountain2.mp3

Why? Why do I like the soft songs from Chrono Trigger so much? Someday I will finish my currently defunct mix of At the Bottom of Night, but for now, Singing Mountain has caught my ear.

Very early wip just some acoustic guitar, strings and bells. Along with the vocals... oh yea the lyrics are thusly:

Through all of the ages

I feel that I have gone

I have not met anyone

as beautiful as you

And though I know you love me

And I believe that I love you

I must intervene for the future

Even if it takes my life

The black wind howls through me

as I feel my life slip away

But I want you to carry on and

Defeat this demon one day...

Please don't cry...

I know the future is barren

And humanity has no hope

Technology has turned against them

What if there was a chance??

I know you believed in free will

and that we had to power to change

So keep on with our mission

I swear It'll be okay...

But atop a singing mountain

I saw your face again

Tears in your eyes

Happiness etched on your face...

Your will has given me life

All the lives

We will save

Are worth the centuries

In the End

We Will be

Together once again..

Atop a singing mountain

I never thought I'd return

But with an egg you hatched potential

and now I know of grace

I missed you...

It's now time to face him

To reclaim what is ours

our future is not decided

by a demon from afar...

All this was played live... so yea. Comments on the mix itself, anything that could be added or subtracted, production tips... anything! :D

Thanks! Source Below

EDIT: To any one who listened to the first one, its my bad... I accidentally posted the wrong one! HAHA!

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How you sing in the end (last stanza + "I missed you") sounds more appropriate for this piece. I think if you can sort of meet your styles halfway in between (louder, but not necessarily shouting, and with softer emotion), because I really wasn't feeling how you were singing a lot of the time, this would be a stronger piece?

The guitar seemed ok, there was this one section at like 3:02-3:04, 3:13-15 that I'm not sure about, kind of abrupt... that whole solo section I think could use work.

No idea what the source is, so I can't really comment on interpretation,... er, but I think adding vocals in should suffice, heh.

But I like the ideas here. Plus guitar. Just... not so much the singing. A few weirdnesses with the lyrics themselves that may get ironed out with better singing. Tons of potential, and as you said, this is a "very early wip" and everything is done live so, like I guess they say, practice makes perfect.

(Unless you're me. Then practice just makes you frustrated and scream "fuck it" and give up, lol)

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