I admit it. Probably 90% of the music on my YouTube playlists consists of video game music and remixes of video game music. I found this one today...
It makes me cry.
How nerdy is it to be reduced to tears by a video game music remix? It's a remix of a town theme from Final Fantasy 5. To listen to it just fills my head with all kinds of images of my hometown. In fact, I'm going to try to capture as many of them as possible with my camera and build a photo thread out of it, set, of course, to this music.
The things I see... The statue of the laughing, clapping little girl at the Civic Center, her face beaded with rainwater. The statue of Cornelia Vanderbilt, pensive and holding a sprig of magnolia in her hand, and her St. Bernard, Cedric. A churning sky above the gargoyles on the Jackson Building and the winged ram's heads on the Public Service Building. All the figures in all the stained glass windows in all the magnificent churches, the little brick plaza in front of the cathedral and the way the light falls in the basilica... The shady streets of West Asheville, the mansions in Grove Park and Montford. Seely's Castle perched on its bluff. That statue of Joan of Arc on the staircase tower at Biltmore House, that same racing sky overhead, the flag high above snapping in the breeze. The fountains in Pack Square playing and splashing... Shadows arcing and lengthening on the art deco buildings downtown as the sun charts its course. The statue of the woman at the veterans monument, holding a letter in her lap and waiting for a child who won't ever come home again -- I can see her especially with snow in her lap and icecicles hanging from her dress. All the mossy crosses and crypts, and the headless statues with their strange, eerie grace in Riverside Cemetery. The French Broad River flowing endlessly, endlessly as it has for a million years, flowing and younger only than the Nile and the New rivers. That, and those timeless mountains, oldest on earth, worn down and sleepy beneath their blanket of forest.
This song makes me see my home, and it makes me cry. God in heaven, I hope I never have to leave this place.
It makes me cry.
How nerdy is it to be reduced to tears by a video game music remix? It's a remix of a town theme from Final Fantasy 5. To listen to it just fills my head with all kinds of images of my hometown. In fact, I'm going to try to capture as many of them as possible with my camera and build a photo thread out of it, set, of course, to this music.
The things I see... The statue of the laughing, clapping little girl at the Civic Center, her face beaded with rainwater. The statue of Cornelia Vanderbilt, pensive and holding a sprig of magnolia in her hand, and her St. Bernard, Cedric. A churning sky above the gargoyles on the Jackson Building and the winged ram's heads on the Public Service Building. All the figures in all the stained glass windows in all the magnificent churches, the little brick plaza in front of the cathedral and the way the light falls in the basilica... The shady streets of West Asheville, the mansions in Grove Park and Montford. Seely's Castle perched on its bluff. That statue of Joan of Arc on the staircase tower at Biltmore House, that same racing sky overhead, the flag high above snapping in the breeze. The fountains in Pack Square playing and splashing... Shadows arcing and lengthening on the art deco buildings downtown as the sun charts its course. The statue of the woman at the veterans monument, holding a letter in her lap and waiting for a child who won't ever come home again -- I can see her especially with snow in her lap and icecicles hanging from her dress. All the mossy crosses and crypts, and the headless statues with their strange, eerie grace in Riverside Cemetery. The French Broad River flowing endlessly, endlessly as it has for a million years, flowing and younger only than the Nile and the New rivers. That, and those timeless mountains, oldest on earth, worn down and sleepy beneath their blanket of forest.
This song makes me see my home, and it makes me cry. God in heaven, I hope I never have to leave this place.
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