Song for the moon

**Song for the moon ~Gekkou Yori~** (Song for the moon ~月光より~ lit. *from Moonlight*) is first track of ClassicaLoid Musik Collection Vol. 5 and the Musik featured in *A World Without Circles*. The Musik is based on the 1st and 3rd movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

## Lyrics

### TV Size

See your heart

Like a song breathe with me

Let the moon inspire you

It's a meeting of two minds

Another way to explore the dark

Another way to find a peace in music through the heart

When we fly

We live in the moon

We feel it, we feel it all the same

We live in the moon

Usagi, Usagi, naze haneru?\*

And in the morning light

The song will stay within your mind

Dreams and memories

Space and time

Again again again again

Without the moon?

Shows us the tune

Where would we be

Without the moon?

### Full

There is a light

That will shine through the darkness

You will know when it glows

How to find your way home

Song for the moon,

For the dark

For the spirit

See your heart

Like a song breathe with me

Let the moon inspire you

It's a meeting of two minds

Another way to explore the dark

Another way to find a peace in music through the heart

When we fly

We live in the moon

We feel it, we feel it all the same

We live in the moon

Usagi, Usagi, naze haneru?\*

And in the morning light

The song will stay within your mind

Dreams and memories

Space and time

And in the morning light

The song will stay within your mind

Dreams and memories

Space and time

Again again again again

Strange is the night

Strange is the light

Where would we be

Without the moon?

Shows us the tune

Where would we be

Without the moon?

*\*Sentai Filmworks translated this phrase as "Rabbit, Rabbit, why do you hop?"*

## Story

After countless attempts made by Chopin to impede the revelation of circles to Beethoven (including him activating his Amadare to Ureigoto Musik), Beethoven finally activates his Musik after Himeka Otowa shows him a croissant, its crescent shape and all of the mansion's round objects reminding him of the moon. His Musik immediately stops Chopin's Musik, and it is revealed here that Chopin was so adamant about Beethoven realizing his Moonlight Sonata because of the long-held rumors that his Fantasie-Impromptu (Yowa no Tsuki) copied Beethoven's piece. However, both him and Schubert reassure him that the rumors shouldn't matter to him as long as his soul is in the music.

The Musik itself transforms everyone's surroundings, emulating different Japanese art styles such as Origami. During the first movement of Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven conducts while floating in front of a paper-like moon. During the third movement, he sports bunny ears and summons a giant rabbit that helps him form and hammer tiny white rabbits out of a white substance.

## Trivia

* This is the only Musik in the series that was mainly written in English.
* The part where Chopin allegedly copied can be heard towards the end of the Allegro movement, albeit faster.
* While the Musik contains heavy moon imagery, Beethoven was not actually inspired by the moon when he wrote this piece and it was in fact a German music critic and poet named Ludwig Rellstab that likened the piece to moonlight five years after Beethoven's death.
* The Musik's Japanese traditional art style and prevalence of rabbits stem from the Japanese myth, the Moon Rabbit.
	+ According to Japanese folklore, the Moon Rabbit is pounding the ingredients for mochi or other rice cakes, which is why Beethoven is shown hammering a sticky, white substance into tiny white rabbits transformed from mochi/rice cakes.