wow it's been forever and a day since i've been wanting to update this blog. i've been so busy i couldn't even make the wallpaper i wanted for this blog, so yeah.

anyway, for the first music post i'd like to write about utada hikaru's "sanctuary" from the kingdom hearts 2 soundtrack.

In you and I there's a new land,
Angels in flight
My sanctuary, my sanctuary, yeah
Where fears and lies melt away
Music will tie
What's left of me
What's left of me

wow, where can i begin? this is the chorus of the song, and at first when you read it, it's just... simple and easily overlooked. but wow once you go and really read it and think about it, you can get some interesting visualizations.

for instance, i get this image of a piece of heaven in this refrain. haha besides the obvious imagery of "angels in flight", it's just the concept of sanctuary.

"where fears and lies melt away" - what better place to let go of fears and lies than heaven? in liwanag we say that fear is the absence of God, so here it's like we're getting closer to him since the fears and lies melt away.

"music will tie /what's left of me" - i think this is my favorite line. i guess for me it means that music fills the void left behind from the absence of fears and lies. to a lot of people, music is their passion and their escape.

here music is their sanctuary, their little piece of heaven.

wow i didn't know i can critically break down some lyrics like that, but eh. i hope it wasn't too boring haha.

more to come. eventually.