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WELCOME! This is the analysis done by yours truly of Moonlight! The commissioned event song for vbs~ We really have a brain rot for this song like we did with cinema!! So here!!

Few changes: character lines are going to be coloured as the character! So! Akito, An, Kohane, Touya, Meiko! And I will not be doing MV analysis alongside it! I just think it's neat how the MV is framed through a back circle, portraying them in the moonlight/spotlight (moon and spotlight are kinda synonymous here!) Another way the moon in general can be seen is as something like false hope, something so far off you want to reach but never can. So! Let's get into it!

This is also all personal opinion!!

Ko: "Collecting nothing but trash, covered with a single torn rag,"

A strong strong first line. Kohane immediately sets the scene- everyone here is junk, throwing away their talent or lives to be what they want- an overall group theme for VBS; they are outcasts wading through loneliness and solitude with each other, trying to make their own name without help. They're 'covered with rag', because they're being hidden away, I'd guess by something like society in general in this analogy.

An: "is a replica with a hideous form."

An adds onto that strong start up- not only are they junk all thrown together, they're horridly trying to replicate their idols, forming a 'replica with a hideous form', because they are all very different people to those who they idolise and want to pass, no matter how much they want to be their own people and make their own unique space, they keep falling into this replica.

To: "A tale someone spun, the timbre at which someone played a song,"

Aki: "made and distorted into a collage of fakes."

This is about the same thing- it's their idols words that they made, it's their songs they're trying to replicate. VBS is only coming together to make some vague collage that looks like them, trying to replicate that same image. It's very harsh on themselves, really. Because what's this song about? Its an akito song! So it's about self hate! yaaaay /s. But this is a running theme, self doubt, anxiety and panic, from both Akito songs. For someone so repressed, songs made from his feelings really lay his emotions bare.

Mei: "In the very beginning, there was progressive youthful love under a veil."

To: "When we notice it, it disappears, crying like a child who’s lost a toy"

Definitely Touya focus since he sings after Meiko but, I think this is his love for Street music- at the start was just progressive to move him away from classical, he didn't really love it in the same way Akito did, he just liked it not being classical, since he wanted to piss off his dad. When he noticed that's why he did it, it was like a child losing its comfort, starting to cry. A slap in the face to reality. That 'veil' was comfort, noticing ye was just hiding away behind that veil made it disappear.

Mei: "Why is that so? That spotlight is shining on me."

Aki: "Your back turned, you are once more getting farther from my reach."

Meiko asks why Touya starts to cry, after losing that veil, then comments the spotlight is on her- I believe this means nobody else is doing anything to deserve the spotlight right now, shying away from themselves. This leads into Akito's line which to me personally tells me this takes place in chapter 14 of the main story, these last few lines. Touya realizes he's 'half-assed' by using this 'progressive love' as a comfort and turning and running away- as Akito laments Touya was growing further away from him again, but instead of it being a talent thing from Akito's view, it's literal.

To(An/Meiko): "I couldn’t become anything like you, like I was chasing after the moon."

See what I mean? Its Touya's main anxiety in the early story, that he'll never catch upto Akito because of how he framed music- he compares Akito to the moon, something so distant and far off he can only stare out and hope to be like. An is also here, more related to how she views Kohane!

Aki: "My thirsting heart remains unquenched."

Without Touya beside him, he feels unsatisfied, his need to surpass cannot be fought alone, and nor can be even sing alone.

Mei: "Why is that so? Clinging to my heart,"

To(Ko+Mei): "Becoming alone, becoming alone, We trace over, as we continued to have sombre dreams."

Touya has a very big character theme with dreams, both in the ones you see at night sense and the life long goal sense! This is a rehash of that from other commissioned songs, particularly a sadder outlook- when Touya is alone, his dreams are dull and sad, going against mirai when he talks about his dreams being full with colour and laughter. And! They add on that they're, An and Touya tracing over, just following someone else- their parents. Following a path already laid for them, even if they want it or not.

Aki: "It’s trash, it’s rags, The blood leaking from your heart, held anger only from myself."

Ouch this line hurt! I think this is self hate, Akito calling himself and what they had trash and rags, like something thrown together and out without care. The blood leaking from Touya's heart was only bleeding from the anger Akito had- hey remember when Akito decked Touya /j. It isn't really as literally as that I believe, moreso that he takes his anger out on Touya sometimes, even unintentionally, when he only hates himself.

Ko: "'What is it I lacked?’ After I asked God,"

Ko+To: "The arrow of a fallen angel struck to silence me.

From outside help (ily guys /p but tysm), I've gathered this is an analogy for passion, always wondering what you lack and need to be perfect, because that's what every artist does- before getting struck down realising there's nothing they can do; they're stagnant. That's the best they can do. Everyone in vbs tends to suffer with 'im not getting better' disease, so it's not surprising to have this followed up by An and Akito, too.

An: "I knew it from the start, I was putting on a forgotten show."

An+Akito: "I’m holding close the sword you gave me."

An says how from the start of her doing shows alone, shes known the truth- nobody would remember her or what she does. Akito adds on, agreeing that together they hug a sword given to them by someone else. I believe this is meant to be something like a blessing and a curse, they were gifted the sword (something like passion or ambition to sing), but it only ends up cutting them and hurting them when they try to use it, because they can't wield it properly. Most they can do is show it off and use it as best they can.

Mei: "How many times have I been disappointed?, ‘I’d rather just throw away everything,’"

Meiko quite literally sings vbs' song, as after this line they harmonize after her- she's voicing their complaints, the way they give up. Its motivating, showing them they all think the same, but also meant to show us the watcher how everyone truly thinks of themselves, even subconsciously.

To: "Surely, nothing will be left in the end, the love, the songs I made up, my name, it’s all withering away too."

Touya is definitely one of the most self doubting, from this at least. He's scared (as he has been in a few songs and events), that one day, they'll all be split up and everything will be worthless. One day his love and his songs and even who he is will be fine- and apparently it's already starting to wither away.

Aki: "is a loneliness not unlike the silence of a winter night."

Meiko asks why Touya feels that way, and redirects him, showing him in away that she knows everyone else is lonely and scared, too- especially Akito. This seems to kick something off in the next chorus. That also just seems like it's meant to be a reference to Touya in general, from silence to the winter and the loneliness that Touya mentions here;

To(/Ko+Mei): "Surely, you were watching the stars alone, in all your ignorance,"

Akito focuses on the future more then Touya, atleast in the life long goal way, Touya has already found his future.

Aki: "still paying no heed to me, my eyes bloodshot."

He's crying(or is exhausted) looking upto the stars, for some reason. These last three lines most sound reminiscent of an argument, Akito saying how secluded he feels, only for Touya to say he felt just the same, with Akito feeling so distant when he's stood next to him. Then Akito says how Touya didn't even see how he was crying. If this is a song crystalized from Akito's fear, it makes sense why an argument would be here- Akito hates the thought of something like this happening, of him being a bad partner.

To(/An+Mei): "You, who stood next to me, are getting farther. Those sombre dreams may be fading out of view"

in contrast to the previous chorus where Touya said he could only dream of dull things. Even being next to Akito gives him full dreams, yet he feels isolated, still next to him. Probably because Akito is still running for the future, when Touya, who still wants to surpass rad weekend, is happy where he is for now, atleast emotionally. It's also a very very, very sweet line, harking back to Touya's overall theme with dreams! Like all over mirai, and been in vbs commission songs since rad dogs! Dreams are really important to Touya- especially since it's now like double stated that Akito gives Touya better dreams.

"But you should continue to chase them."

Oh hey it's backing up what I'm saying. Touya wants to test and enjoy this time while they have it, but he's always surprised to have to quickly follow behind Akito who 'wont stop chasing that far off moon.' Yet, I don't think Touya is meant to be perceived as angry or anything- he wants to encourage Akito, to keep running towards his dreams, so they won't be alone.

It's Akito's thought process, while 'running'. An inner dialogue. No matter what he's doing and if he's cut out for it, he's only been doing things in the spur of the moment without thinking, and now he needs to be serious, not to stop running now. This is accelerated by the fact all his memories are fuzzy- they're fast paced and hard to remember off the adrenaline of the moment.

Aki: "It’s a fake, it’s the truth, If I turned back now, I would only see that those fuzzy memories were there."

An: "Waste and a converted irony I tried to break free from cliche, and yet,"

To: (‘Is this a rehash of someone else’s work?’")

Very interesting to me that's in quotes, not Touya's or An's own thoughts. He shares a lot with An in the trauma sector, so they share this, the worry they're only meant to be someone they're not and only follow and rehash want they do. Especially when VBS is a cover group, and atleast Touya's dad has been said before to hate people not recreating songs perfectly, as not to disrespect the composer. Could very well be stemming from An and Touya, which is quite strange from the Akito trauma song!/j But as this was followed by An's line, definitely both of their anxiety.

Aki: "The Moonlight is merciless."

Ko: "The stardust is countless, A eustasy sinks and disappears."

So Kohane talks about people giving up and failing because they can't stand the changing tides of being a big star, I think, Akito adds on saying the moonlight, or probably also called, the spot light, is daunting and a moment of weakness could ruin anyone.

An: (‘Is my identity a sham, too?)"

Ko: (‘Do you want love so much you’d resort to theft?’)

This is either Kohane and Ans personal struggles and thoughts, or they're playing out Akito's. It's kinda hard to tell. Could also very easily be both- talking about being shams following someone else's image and also that they'd have to steal love, either meaning they 'steal' other people's work to show off as their talent or that their own identity is a lie to get love.

Ko: "Afternoon, when sheep-like clouds were floating in the sky..."

An: "A nostalgic song wavers in the wind."

At first this made no sense to me- it's akito dreaming, is my guess. Passing out to escape from his own horrid thoughts in the ruthless moonlight of the night. That's why the song calms down, and he starts hearing a nostalgic song. It's also why Touya did not sing there at all, and only now is singing again.

To: "The words that you said to me..."

Even if Touya says Akito taught and helped him, Akito doesn't believe it. Or atleast is hypocritical of himself and forgets to assign his words to himself, writing them down over and over to remember them. Its a cycle they always fall into, Akito never believing anything he does.

Aki: "I’ve written the same thing down, so I won’t forget them, even now."

back to the chorus.

To+An(/Meiko): "I couldn’t become anything like you, liike I was chasing after the moon "

Aki: "My thirsting heart remains unquenched."

Touya can't keep up the same lifestyle as Akito, never being satisfied and always chasing the next biggest thing, as he's happy in his 'future' being the present. An always feels like she's falling behind the incredible progress Kohane has made.

To+Ko(+Mei): "Time pases, time passes, (we trace over,**) so that we won’t avert our eyes when the time comes to turn back and look."

They just want to heal and not be scared of the past, but accept it. Which I'd say is far more prominent to Touya's story than Kohanes, but she might be shy or scared about her own weaker past, looking where she is now. They trace over their past so they can make a better one, but also need to accept their past.

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Because In their past, they were- both following someone else's life. They're trying to walk away from that path without being hurt, or hurting to look back.

Even if right now, they're called everything, theyre nothing compared to the actual people they aspire to follow, they're the throwaways of society- they keep pushing forward no matter what. They'll find their own light, separate from that ruthless moonlight where they can shine without worry, together. They'll never wake up from this pipe dream, as others say, but that's fine by them because no matter what they will have passion and love for this, no matter what.

Aki: "It’s trash, it’s rags, beyond the pursuit of a dream we will never wake from, my light, and only mine, will always be there."

#prsk #i love lyric analysis sm #thank u for this op

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