【Touhou Lyrics】 Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream

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Kana’s theme. ...So sad. From one of the older PC-98 games, Kana is a poltergeist (like the Prismrivers), who’s attached to a mansion that she haunts (like the Prismrivers). However, she’s not disruptive or noisy enough (unlike the Prismrivers) and perhaps that’s where she’s gone wrong, because no one pays attention to her anymore. You could say that there’s really no point to a poltergeist’s artificial life if they can’t even affect anything.

So, playing with the ghostly theme of “attachment” and its emotional double meanings, I framed this theme as a heartbreaking ballad of someone without hope of self-fulfillment, feeling incomplete because she’s literally attached/stuck to a person/place that has no future for her. The “vanishing dream” is her wasted past and the “lost dream” is the future she’s unable to grasp.

Don’t worry, though. In the much more lighthearted canon of PoDD, she gets a happy ending. All she needed was a fresh new place to haunt after all. Thanks to the powers of the Probability Space Hypervessel, I’m sure the Hakurei Shrine continues to enjoy Kana’s company well into the Windows era.

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Touhou Project 03, Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream
Kana Anaberal: "Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream"
Original music by ZUN.
English lyrics and fandub vocals by me.
Art from the official game. Background rips from: https://touhou-memories.tumblr.com/post/163368081674

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Since I came about, since I came to meet you,
How long has it been now, or will it be?
When you walk this way, when you look around you,
Tell me, what do you think? What do you see?

When I make a sound, when I move a muscle,
Oh, why do I do it? For you, for me?
With no will to go, with no reason to stay,
I can clearly see that I’m incomplete.

Before I knew, I had become scenery paint of a forgotten place.
No one in life, no one in death, no one at all to remember my face.
I must have known, right from the start, I never could be any more than this.
Two ghostly hands reaching in vain, my fleeting touch is just too meaningless.

If only my dream were truly behind me,
Then I might find something new to attach to my vanishing heart.
But there’s no hope for such fortune to find me.
Who else would want me? And more, who else would I want? Falling apart…

As my past is winding down, my future too is already gone.
Because, you see, I’m someone who doesn’t know how to move on.
And still I wait for things to change, hold tightly to the dying dream again,
Desperate to keep it from fading away.

If I could make one wish, I wonder what the wish would be for?
It’s hard for me to say that I’d ever want anything more.
And so I’m neither here nor there. My presence is a breath of air to you.
If there’s no choice but to fade… Let me fade away.




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