Vocals by Kasane Teto, a voicebank for Synthesizer V with support vocals by Momone Momo and Utane Uta, voicebanks for UTAU singing speech synthesizer.
Spoken word vocal by Zundamon, a voicebank for VOICEVOX speech synthesizer.
With every breath, a soothing breeze wrapped in blankets of tranquility
In dreamscapes wild, we roam afar where wishes a stars
In the arms of dreams, we gently lie under the shade of a cloudless sky
夜空の星が微笑んでいる
一日の中でたりないプレイする時間ない
時間は流れて行くいつものぼり続ける
In the Arms of Dreams is a soft ballad I’ve been working on for some time, hoping to blend the new sound of Synthesizer V with the less fluid sound (by default) of UTAU in order to reunite the famous UTAU 3.
I wonder if I should use spoken word parts more often.
Every five or ten years there’s a shakedown
Toxic people get caught in the breakdown
And they soon fade away
Nothing can undo the trouble hate leads to
For now I’m freed from those opinions
I can be myself again
I will make my own way forward
Be myself in my domain
In my own default space, rediscover my grace
Rise above lies and hate
Every five or ten years, the hurt reappears
Seems it won’t go away
Shakedown a new vocal and mix of the song for the Infloresce charity festival compilation at Battle of the Bits which raised funds to shelter transgender people and support their right to exist. There is no excuse for abandoning family and friends for something that has no consequence for anyone else.
The meaning of the lyric is about the cycle of cliques that seem to be in charge of the music scenes I participate in, and how some bad actor always seems to come along, be ignored at first, then ruin the clique, after which a new clique forms in its ashes and we do it all over again. I always feel like an outsider to these cliques. I don’t feel so bad once I learn they weren’t all that great after all.
In another era I would have wanted to release them as a so-called Double A Side, I’m only describing Shakedown second because it is the older song.