[SynthV+UTAU Cover] Paradise of Light and Shadow (English dub) -- Eleanor Forte and KYE

Once upon a time, I was sitting in a creative writing club for a timed writing sesh, and came up with Rin's first part to this extremely inaccurate dub. And then later, I wrote Len's while riding on a bus for seven hours in Central China with no internet access and minimal understanding of Japanese. That's my excuse for why it's so grossly different from the original lyrics...I overall feel like it's okay if it sounds okay, but I regret losing the nuance in Len's part. Len in the dub is just so decided and determined, while the original lyrics focus a lot more on the pain he and the people he's fighting have experienced. In any case I'm really glad to finally be able to publish this; it's been sitting on my plate for about four years and I was never sure if my English synth skill was enough to not sound like gibberish while singing anything this fast. The rhymes were really fun to do and there's a few lines I feel awfully clever about writing KYE is actually the easiest Arpasing UTAUloid I've ever tuned...but even he struggled with this , I had to adjust the start time of a lot of notes, and even the preutterance duration sometimes, because his oto wasn't expecting lotsa 64th notes at 240 bpm Unfortunately he's impossible to mix...I think I got to a point with minimal engine noise and sibilance here, but he still sounds decidedly more noisy than Eleanor. Lyrics, oof: In this paradise built from our tears and our songs Tucked away in the dark, in the bowels of the earth I am here to keep everything as it belongs Singing for every death and rebirth From the people who feared of their guardian's wrath The first songstress rose, offering a lifetime's song for peace I continue those notes strewn on history's path Until death may secure my release Song for the gods of sun, song for the gods of ice Bless the future and glorify the past Song to soothe every pain, song to pay every price Sung from birth till I'm breathing my last All that I've known is song, darkness, and paradise Torn from warmth of voices I've never met So, o guardian, please take what I bring in utmost respect (Evermore shall ye sing, songstress.) Twisted melodies arise as I walk in the shadow Till the world above me dies from the guardian I must appease Would singers before me, the stories we've weaved drag the world into despair? Nothing else but this fate's what I've got in my life All the light in my eyes will become a song full of prayer In that paradise built from their songs and their tears Cries a voice drowned in requiems and torn by songs of strife I am here to steal back all of her stolen years To caress the wounds marring her life All the maps have been burned that might show what I need I must follow the melody living in my heart I have wandered through pine and oak, cactus and reed Through the fear that has kept us apart Barred from a loving smile, barred from a hopeful word Is this paradise the life you want? So let the world collapse, justice's rage be stirred Till the truth finds the goal of my hunt Hundreds of songs I've torn, hundreds of cries I've heard All except the warmth of my sister's voice To keep peace or to challenge our fate -- there's only one choice (I have to keep singing/I have to keep resisting) Though their songs are light and shield: with that beast, let them shatter I have lost too much to yield to the roars that erased your world If I can't reach you now, there's nothing to lose if I unleash the dark So that history won't repeat, I'll end this paradise With my own hands, I'm burning a mark (In this paradise built from our tears and our songs...) (In that paradise built from their songs and their tears...) (I am here to keep everything as it belongs...) (Till death may secure my release...) (The fear that has kept us apart...) (Songstress, sing!) O our guardian, hear my prayer/O great beast, I challenge thee Please accept my melody/I'll destroy thy dark lair For the world of light up there/How her heart cried to be free Where our singing must cover their fear under hope/All alone in despair Here I offer a song of light/Let my song weave shadows black For a future of peace undisturbed/Funeral shrouds for the sins of the past I'll dedicate my life/That's the life I must steal back Let my voice ride the breezes to bless our folk, my life scattered/ All before the rain washes away all you are, and keeps falling Till this song is silenced at last/Till this song is silenced at last (So history repeateth.) Don't you know your voice, like ours, meets the light, then turns to darkness? Don't you know the darkness sours into history's blood circulating until the world's end? The world's end is all we hear the earth's heart beat in echoes Light and darkness disappear as the infinite world revolves Though lives have to end, they grow back again and challenge history's will From this paradise of light and shadow, there's one thing that I desire still...