Sonic Rainboom - The Five Pointed Crown [Balloon Party | Album Out Now!]
Channel: originalph00tbag
Date: 2014-12-02

Take two: This guy.

So Balloon Party's latest iteration is out. It is the Mindscapes album, from the Academy of Power series. This is the thing I made for that thing.

I don't necessarily put stock in the immortal Twilight headcanon. However, as I was writing this tune (a process that took about as it took to produce it--I was editing the lyrics up to the very last recording session with a week to go before deadline), it became apparent that that interpretation would provide the most emotive angle to explore Twilight's relationship with being a leader, since I think she welcomed her role only because it inherently necessitated the presence of her friends, and she would struggle without them there. I saw this to be inherent in the form of Twilight's tiara, which has five points, to symbolize the five friends without whom she would never have gotten to where she is now. Who knows if Twilight would draw comfort from her crown like this song suggests in a canon where she is immortal, but I would hope she would. 

I'm not 100% pleased with everything in this tune, but I'm satisfied. So it goes when working with a deadline.
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Lyrics:
Perched atop the dias,
She dithers, dithers,
Paralyzed by, "what if she fails?"
Five empty thrones where
Spirits linger,
Haunting in the corner 'f her eye.

Don't let anxieties rule you;
They're only lessons to be learned through.
Spread your wings and take to the sky.
Don't run away from life.

Tears dry on the cold stone,
As though they were never there.
So it is with mortals in time.
Forward turn your eyes now,
To face the many years ahead.
Let them in to live on in you.

Don't be afraid of the unknown.
Only through new adventures do we all grow.
Spread your wings and take to the sky.
Don't run away from life.

No memento of their lives,
Save the crown she's loathe to bear.
Can't move forward, as she cries,
"Where's my pow'r without them there?"

Don't be afraid, they're always with you.
And the'll be there beside you, to guide you.
Let them in, and take to the sky.
Don't run away from life.

Let them rest upon your brow,
Let them in, and take to the sky.
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Get Mindscapes here:
https://balloonparty.bandcamp.com/album/mindscapes

Spotlight on EQD? In this case I'm not sure how to feel about it.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/12/spotlight-music-discord-metal-cover.html

Shoutouts to everyone who made Balloon Party happen.
Big thanks to the people who make MLP, as well, since without you none of this would be going on now.