#and i enjoy these songs for their own selves outside of thinking abt yamato

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Got any yamato-adjacent song suggestions? I'm making a playlist!

ah! i've not gotten a question like this before. i should warn u that, firstly, i don't have good music taste, i never have and i probably never will 😔. I also don't honestly have a lot of songs which ring strongly as Yamato? i have maybe one song that DEFINTIELY makes me think of a naruto character, but that character is like. obito. i don't even like obito that much its just the song is like extremely him. anyway

There are some songs that make me experience emotions which sometimes (due to my brainrot) are converted into Yamato Emotions though, but they're generally abt the relationship between an individual + god. I think because of the extremely important relationship between yamato and hashirama/hashirama's mokuton (as he's often called the God of Shinobi and also has a similar kind of. extreme reverence placed upon his name)

the first one is the sweetest: Spring (Wake) by the Arcadian Wild, I like the first verses the most, n i think abt this mostly as a like. very lonely little kinoe considering his mokuton as a presence in its own right, almost like an imaginary friend

Wake up, sleepyhead I pulled you out from the flowerbed My breath fills your lungs I’ll give this garden to my favorite son

this ones...hm. Big Blue by Vampire Weekend, it repeats the same verses over and over. four times, i think. i tend to think of it as tenzos stages of life as he's freed from one nightmare and moves on to the next. being free'd from orochimaru, to being free'd by danzo, to being free'd by kakashi, to being released from anbu duty to live in the sunlight, each time kind of like "ah, is this where i'll belong?"

I was so overcome with emotion. When I was hurt and in need of affection, When I was tired and I couldn’t go home Then you offered protection So am I learning my lesson? Or am I back on my own?

this one is one of my favorites! Garden Song (pete seeger version). he's one of my favorites, and there's such a kind of gentle, accepting dedication to slow progress that makes me think of yamato..ah. ack. there are other versions of this song, and if you can find a live version thats especially good cause pete seeger does the wackiest call and response youve ever heard, he sings the song twice over, once to share the lyrics, once to partake in them himself, all at the same time, lyric by lyric. nutzo. love that guy

Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones, We are made of dreams and bones

last one on my list is Ya Hey also by Vampire Weekend, which has absolutely nothing to do with yamato but the vibes of it are impeccable and while it's a song about god, a couple of the lyrics pierce my heart + make me think of him, not in a way which is true to the song, nor in a way which is direct, but which speaks very quietly to my heart

In the dark of this place There's the glow of Your face There's the dust on the screen Of this broken machine And I can't help but feel That I've made some mistake But I let it go Ya Hey, Ya Hey, Ya Hey Through the fire and through the flames You won't even say Your name Through the fire and through the flames You won't even say Your name You say, "I am that I am" But who could ever live that way?

#I am that I am #yamswers #clareion-call #obvs it should be noted that like. songs which deal with the narrators relationship to god r highly personal #and i enjoy these songs for their own selves outside of thinking abt yamato #ya hey is especially a favorite of mine because it has such a heavy emotional throughline #where the narrator feels simultaneously comforted and also abandoned by god #and acknowledges that he may have abandoned god as well—which is why god might be abandoning him #its a song of such immense frustration but at the same time a very strong longing that it knocks me flat on my ass every time i hear it #which i know is shocking to hear abt a vampire weekend song but like its facts #ya hey fucks #if it isnt obvious just by listening to them i'll note that these songs r not all of the same faiths—ya hey is v distinctly jewish + abt it #while vaguer big blue probably is too #meanwhile spring (awake) is distinctly and sometimes uncomfortably christian #garden song is that weird kinda christian that wants to settle into the background. i dont dislike it at all but it is there #god the lines: #Through the fire and through the flames || You won't even say Your name || Through the fire and through the flames || #You won't even say your name || Only || But who could ever live that way? #just absolutely fucking obliterates me #the frustration! the longing! ah! ack! #you won't even say your name...good lord! that one hurts! #im a simple man. i love a song abt ones relationship with god #long post #i didnt really care for vampire weekend a whole lot but my roommate took me to see them once #and it was the third time ive ever gone to a concert #and the experience of a concert will change the way that you interact with the music in a fascinating way—its like the music becomes #something tangible in you for a moment #i would never say theyre one of my favorite bands but at the same time theyre in my head in a way they werent before