Azure Moon: The Musical - Between Heaven and Earth (Original Lyrics)

00:00 - Intro
01:17 - Battle Begins (Rain)
04:09 - Battle Heats Up (Embers)

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Scenario: Three paths converge on a bloody field. As the delusional prince recklessly claws his way forward to quench his thirst for revenge, Byleth desperately does what she can to keep him and her students alive. Meanwhile, the blue skies above briefly stir a mutual recollection of peaceful days at the academy within the hearts of former classmates. But alas, clouds have formed. Eagles, lions, and deer… they steel themselves, each with reasons not to yield. They’re caught in a reunion “Between Heaven and Earth.”

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OH. MY. GOSH. I didn't expect to churn this out so soon, but I just had way too much fun working on this!!!!! After covering Acacia's musical concept of Chasing Daybreak, I was inspired to write lyrics for Between Heaven and Earth (BHE) since it was another song I felt would also work as a musical.

Before writing the lyrics, I decided to listen to all versions of BHE to see if I could mix them together that can potentially serve a compelling narrative. And AHHHHHHH lemme just say that the Embers version is superbly underrated and that it's an absolute crime that you barely hear it in Three Hopes unless you pause from the action. I haven't checked the actual tempo of Embers compared to its Rain version, but the former feels slightly faster, which makes it feel more desperate, raw, and downright emotional--all of which are emotions that encapsulate the tragedy of fighting people who used to be your classmates.

Some of my favorite lines I've written include the parts where Dimitri harmonizes with the other leaders and his countermelody at around the 6 minute mark. The countermelody actually wasn't planned, but I felt like that part felt too empty for what felt like the climax moment of the song. Sooo, I consulted Dimitri's fe wiki page of quotes and used his iconic "Kill every last one of them" and BAM, the countermelody was born! The line "We're caught between heaven and earth" was inspired by this video by The Muses' Mire    • Between Heaven and Earth - Cover with...   . It's their interpretation of BHE as a musical, so definitely check it out if you haven't already! I also referenced Acacia's Chasing Daybreak lyrics in Edelgard's line "The daybreak is closing in."

As for the recording process, I decided to use the actual voice acting from the game in the intro because my subpar voice acting skills couldn't capture the emotions that the VAs for each leader masterfully did. Everything else you hear after roughly the first minute is my vocals though! Once again, I did a bazillion takes to decently pull off Byleth's ridiculously high notes. If she keeps this up, Byleth should ditch being a professor and join the opera with Dorothea and Manuela LOL

One more thing: I tried searching everywhere for the pronunciation of "Aymr" and could only reference the pronunciation from Byleth's smash trailer. It sounds like they say "uh-meer," so that's how I sang it in here. Idk if that's correct. I even texted my friend who played fe3h and all of its routes and even she doesn't know how it's supposed to be said XDDD So if I pronounced it wrong, I'm sorry HAHA 😅

Anywayssss, I'm hoping to do more fe musical stuff in the future, but I think it'll be a while until I upload another one. This song was a HUGE undertaking (like how did it get to 7 minutes long???? Recording all the voices and editing this video took forever), and I'd like to cover songs from other games! If I were to "musicalize" another fe3h song though, it'll probably be the Embers version of "The Long Road" but we'll see where my creative juices decide to flow (because they sometimes flow in sporadic directions LOL). In the meantime, I have a Persona 5 cover in the works! It'll probably be uploaded sometime in April, so look out for that!

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Concept, vocals (except intro), and lyrics by me!
Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o...
Portrait border designs: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/c...

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