What do you imagine when you close your eyes and think of an endless, open sky?

This song has been years incoming you could say. The original idea started out when I was playing with my Snow Miku "keytar" on some vocal lines after I bought it and brought it home from Sapporo. I've always wondered - what if that idea grew into something more? Fast forward several years later, past procrastination and writer's blocks, and here we are now. I can't believe that it's finally come to life at last.

It occupies a special place in my heart, and I want to take give a big shout out to celebrate the wonderful people who helped make this possible - through a gorgeous canvas, poignant and thoughtful lyrics, and tuning to hit those emotions home. It really wouldn't have been realized without them.

Please give them a follow and some love!

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Art: eggs
https://twitter.com/saidtheegg

Lyrics: Lystrialle
https://twitter.com/Lystrialle

Tuning: Bibi
https://twitter.com/bibian0115

Music: EphemeralDuet (me!)
https://ephemeralduet.com
https://twitter.com/ephemeralduet

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And thank you sincerely, for watching. It really means the world to me.

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Lyrics by Lystrialle:

If I take my hand and reach out skyward
would stars fall into my palm laid out and bare?
If I raise my arm and stretch out
Maybe the comets will come from somewhere out there

If I take my hand and reach out
The bars of the ladder would multiply farther from me
If I raise my arm and stretch out
The stars seem to fade into dots I barely can see

Chasing the pillars of light
The ones that you caught long ago
Shining vivid and bright
But a faded speck of dust in my palm
The glow dying out
Became nothing -
Nothing left at all...

In a far-off moment
In the center of night
When the flame that burned for you
Might spare a shard for me
The embers flying outward
Lighting sparks in my dream

Showering, showering far away, again
It scatters and scatters in broken pieces abound
The vanishing, vanishing thoughts you held so dearly
Were withered to a small little sound

So I breathe and I take my hand and reach out
The bars of the ladder are stretching away from my reach
And I take my hand and stretch out
And hope to arrive at the place I know you'll be

Dissolving into glitter
That shimmers into the air
The powdered light that falls like rain from the sky
I run on the horizon
I catch the embers sparking
Like fireflies in the midst of the night

The fluttering fluttering rays
That pierce through the skylit clouds
Lighting up the night and day
With all the sparks spreading out
As it floats farther away
Within the widening space
My outstretched palm can no longer extend anymore

Fragments left in the air
Forming lines left behind
All the particles bare
And the glare left in sight
Melding shimmers and stars
For a trace in my palm
Multicolored in prisms and mirrors

The fluttering fluttering rays
Piercing through the skylit clouds
Lighting up night and day
With the sparks spreading out
It floats farther away
Within the widening space
Pushing further, my fingers press further and on

Fragments left in the air
Forming lines left behind
All the particles bare
And the glare left in sight
Melding shimmers and stars
For a trace in my palm
Something glimmers and gleams in the dark
If it all disappears
If it all fades away
Through the blood and the tears
And the words I can't say
Let this spark stay behind
Let these thoughts stay in mind
Let at least one last piece remain solid forevermore--

(If I take my hand and reach out
The bars of the ladder would multiply farther from me
If I raise my arm and stretch out
The stars seem to fade into dots that I barely can see

When I take my hand and reach out
I grasp onto pieces you left behind waiting for me
And I raise my arm and stretch out
And something that seems to take shape slowly comes to be seen...)

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