{"id":1657,"date":"2022-09-03T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2022-09-03T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T17:15:24","slug":"interlude-lyrics-and-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/03\/interlude-lyrics-and-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlude &#8211; Lyrics and Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before my blog returns to the world&#8217;s crises, I wanted to share an Anime series that I recently discovered, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBqxVX_LXvk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Force is aptly befitting the summer, which was way too hot.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a lot of fun to watch!<\/p>\n<p>The show has some great lyrics that I couldn&#8217;t find good transliterations for on the web, so here they are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flame is the soul&#8217;s breath<br \/>\nThe black smoke is the soul&#8217;s release<br \/>\nAshes thou wert and art<br \/>\nMay thy soul return to the great flame of fire<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e1tom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Lyrics Season 1, Cour 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThe darkness is illuminated<br \/>\nThe days we&#8217;ve grown accustomed to walking are weeded out<br \/>\nMy dream might be to make a stable living<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;ll moan over the lack of stimulation<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe end is illuminated<br \/>\nWhere are the streets we&#8217;re accustomed to walking?<br \/>\nTime can sometimes be irksome,<br \/>\nbut we&#8217;re enveloped in warmth<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nFlames rise to show us the way<br \/>\nreminding us of a gentle melody<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThere is no eternity, none at all, they say<br \/>\nI just smile, thinking that&#8217;s fine with me<br \/>\nIf we shine, someday, our light will go out<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll keep on walking until the day<br \/>\nthe fire of our lives gets doused<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nPlaythings that make sounds<br \/>\nand magic that chases pain away<br \/>\nare all precious treasures to me<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThere is no eternity, none at all, they say<br \/>\nI just smile, thinking that&#8217;s fine with me<br \/>\nIf we shine, someday, our light will go out<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll keep on walking until the day<br \/>\nthe fire of our lives gets doused<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closing Lyrics Season 1, Cour 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nYou can toil your way through humorless days<br \/>\nand curse the unwavering present,<br \/>\nbut words that simply hang in the air<br \/>\nare not enough to save you<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been walking shoulder-to-shoulder<br \/>\nbetween sights we never reach<br \/>\nand pain that brings no warmth<br \/>\nto make it to a faraway place<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nGiven the hope that you speak of<br \/>\nor the ideals that you dream of<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll find a way to show you love, however cold you may be<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nYou can toil your way through humorless days<br \/>\nand curse the unwavering present,<br \/>\nbut words that simply hang in the air<br \/>\nare not enough to save you<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nYou can cry out timidly<br \/>\nbut that changes when the nights grow fevered<br \/>\nEven if we let go of each other&#8217;s hands,<br \/>\nI hope we can still walk together again<\/p>\n<p>[Fin]<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll refrain from saying goodbye<br \/>\nto ensure that we can meet again somewhere<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction Season 1, Cour 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, mankind was touched by the planet&#8217;s anger,<br \/>\nand the world was engulfed in flames.<br \/>\nIt was the Day of the Cataclysm.<br \/>\nThe flames burnt ferociously,<br \/>\nwith an intensity threatening to incinerate the places mankind lived,<br \/>\nthe languages they spoke, and the culture they had built up.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Copyright always remains with the series&#8217; creators and their licensors!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"2022-09-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-02_thumb.png\" alt=\"2022-09-02\" width=\"646\" height=\"373\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Screenshot, Crunchyroll, 9\/2\/22)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before my blog returns to the world&#8217;s crises, I wanted to share an Anime series that I recently discovered, Fire Force. Fire Force is aptly befitting the summer, which was way too hot. But it&#8217;s a lot of fun to watch! The show has some great lyrics that I couldn&#8217;t find good transliterations for on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/03\/interlude-lyrics-and-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interlude &#8211; Lyrics and Prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climateemergency","category-cologne","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-qJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}