This song is my absolute favourite from the album. Because, like, you've got Toba. And he is sent to tell Ahrima, who has just destroyed the home he helped create, to gtfo. And it starts out fairly nice and soft - mocking, but soft. "So you're Ahrima, collusive dreamer" he almost coos. I can almost see him just looking Ahrima up and down, telling him that "they say you're gifted, but I just see a scared kid" and that his skills are latent. And as it goes on further, he slowly works himself into a frenzy. I can't imagine that Toba doesn't just completely and absolutely loathe Ahrima. It starts nice and airy, then just for a split second ("Maybe the designs flawed") he slips, then he's back to soft - but not quite the same. He gets a little more throaty, a little more raw. He gets a little louder, a little more intense - and the entire time, he's telling Ahrima how much of a failure he is. The tone and the anger in this berating climbs and climbs and climbs, and the song approaches its climax: in what seems like a single breath, Toba sings "My words will pierce through the air/Pierce through the despair/To find your arrogant, throbbing ears/If it's too much to bear or to hear or to take, I'll be frank" and then the music cuts out completely, and he almost screams "Let my inflection be crystal clear!" The music returns, but he's still almost screaming, and I can see him just having gotten right up in Ahrima's face, maybe grabbing him by the collar and yelling at him, worked up in his frenzy of hatred towards him: "This mess that you've made is a six-foot grave/It's a home for your lonesome bones that remain/We'll disappear stay right here/To rot as the king of the lost and forgot" and this last word he nearly moans out. Ahrima, now distraught, disbelieving of what he's done in his hasty, reckless jealousy, begins to cry, "What have I done?" over and over again. He repeats this, I believe, four times, and then Toba cuts in - "Oh, what have you done?" He says it in such a way that I think it's not so much an inquiry as an angry rhetorical question. He's saying, I can't believe you're trying to ask for forgiveness after what you did you utter fool. The final piece of the song (before the narration, that is) is Ahrima's verses and Toba's verses ("What have I become? Destroyed all I love"" and "You've broken the trust of your father's love" respectively) melding together, ending on the single same last word: love. Ahrima is moaning it out in an attempt at forgiveness, and Toba is hurling it mockingly. One is filled with sorrow, the other with hate. It's just fantastic.
This song is my absolute favourite from the album. Because, like, you've got Toba. And he is sent to tell Ahrima, who has just destroyed the home he helped create, to gtfo. And it starts out fairly nice and soft - mocking, but soft. "So you're Ahrima, collusive dreamer" he almost coos. I can almost see him just looking Ahrima up and down, telling him that "they say you're gifted, but I just see a scared kid" and that his skills are latent. And as it goes on further, he slowly works himself into a frenzy. I can't imagine that Toba doesn't just completely and absolutely loathe Ahrima. It starts nice and airy, then just for a split second ("Maybe the designs flawed") he slips, then he's back to soft - but not quite the same. He gets a little more throaty, a little more raw. He gets a little louder, a little more intense - and the entire time, he's telling Ahrima how much of a failure he is. The tone and the anger in this berating climbs and climbs and climbs, and the song approaches its climax: in what seems like a single breath, Toba sings "My words will pierce through the air/Pierce through the despair/To find your arrogant, throbbing ears/If it's too much to bear or to hear or to take, I'll be frank" and then the music cuts out completely, and he almost screams "Let my inflection be crystal clear!" The music returns, but he's still almost screaming, and I can see him just having gotten right up in Ahrima's face, maybe grabbing him by the collar and yelling at him, worked up in his frenzy of hatred towards him: "This mess that you've made is a six-foot grave/It's a home for your lonesome bones that remain/We'll disappear stay right here/To rot as the king of the lost and forgot" and this last word he nearly moans out. Ahrima, now distraught, disbelieving of what he's done in his hasty, reckless jealousy, begins to cry, "What have I done?" over and over again. He repeats this, I believe, four times, and then Toba cuts in - "Oh, what have you done?" He says it in such a way that I think it's not so much an inquiry as an angry rhetorical question. He's saying, I can't believe you're trying to ask for forgiveness after what you did you utter fool. The final piece of the song (before the narration, that is) is Ahrima's verses and Toba's verses ("What have I become? Destroyed all I love"" and "You've broken the trust of your father's love" respectively) melding together, ending on the single same last word: love. Ahrima is moaning it out in an attempt at forgiveness, and Toba is hurling it mockingly. One is filled with sorrow, the other with hate. It's just fantastic.