Shifting Roots (Song)

**"Shifting Roots"** is the opening theme of Clouded Moon: Shifting Roots. It is written by and performed by Blixemi, with mixing and mastering of audio by Alex Martinelli and additional voices by Alex Martinelli and Dawn DuBay.

## Characters In Order Of Appearance

* Swiftmask
* Wolfthorn
* Dawnfrost
* Spottedshadow
* Goldenpelt
* Wildfur
* Tigerstripe
* Boulder
* Halfmask
* Pool

## Lyrics

### Intro Version

One breath, the world turned backwards

Two blinks, nothing's the same

Memories are frayed and fractured

Can you hold to what remains?

The hunt becomes the hunted,

Haunted days and sleepless eyes

What you knew cannot be trusted

Buried truths uproot tonight

Gotta fight, gotta try

to survive

Plant your feet, face the beast

Stay alive

All at once while the chaos is loose

As we grow over shifting roots!

### Full Version

The quiet trees around you start to shake.

Rumblings from the earth,

Secrets and shadows threat to wake!

What lurks beyond the darkness, steps into the light.

And now you’re trapped here, all alone nowhere to hide.

All that’s familiar to you suddenly feels strange,

The calm and steady

now marked with scars you can’t explain.

The friendly faces now faded into foes,

It went unnoticed, now it’s all you seemed to know.

One breath, the world turned backwards,

Two blinks, nothing’s the same,

Memories are frayed and fractured,

Can you hold to what remains?

The hunt becomes the hunted,

Haunted days, and sleepless eyes,

What you knew, cannot be trusted

Buried truths uproot tonight!

And you’ll bend and you’ll break, and you’ll burn,

As the ground, claws ya down, to the dirt-

Hid away from the light of the moon-

Gotta fight, gotta try, to survive,

Plant your feet, face the beast, stay alive.

All at once, all the chaos is loose,

As we grow over shifting roots.

Your hist’ry cracks and crumbles

Like stones beneath the sea!

No time for falls or fumbles,

Must go, and take the leap!

Move quick, don’t lose your balance

Can’t sway or look behind.

Below creeps greed and malice,

You cannot stop your climb!

And you’ll love, and you’ll lose, and you’ll learn,

While your prayers and despairs go unanswered.

Though you try, not all blossoms bear fruit.

Gotta hold, and control, the unknown.

Stand up high, though you might be alone.

Go afraid , face the terrors and choose,

Will you be ready for shifting truths?

Everybody’s got a secret to hide,

Keep it close it locked inside,

But though they try, it will find the light

Something lurks, something coming to life.

You feel the ground as it heaves and breathes.

Something’s shaking making history.

Rise from the bottom, rise up from the truth.

Everything tied to the shifting roots!

And you’ll bend and you’ll break, and you’ll burn,

And you’ll love, and you’ll lose, and you’ll learn,

You’re getting close now!

Soon you’ll know how

How to fight, and survive through the night,

Stand up high, face the beast, stay alive!

You can make it through,

Hold on to your shifting roots.

Gotta hold, and control the unknown.

Show the world that you’re eager to grow!

Stare down the unmoving truth,

By facing your shifting roots.

## Trivia

* The intro is in a PMV style. The characters are solid-colored, almost flat-looking, with a pencil or pastel-like texture and a purple and yellow complementary palette.
	+ This same style will be used for Shifting Roots: Chapter 2's flashback scenes, though it will be more detailed to address the feedback that the style looked "unfinished".
* The intro storyboard was created by CaptainMorwen, an animatic for the intro was created by TennelleFlowers, and the intro itself was made by CaptainMorwen.
* The cover art made for the official song released by Blixemi was made by TennelleFlowers.
* In the storyboards of the intro, multiple elements were changed or scrapped:
	+ The intro would feature scenes with Spottedshadow and Goldenpelt's respective friend groups, which would be scrapped.
	+ The character busts for each main character in accordance with the last few lines were originally facing directly forward, which would be changed to have each character show up from an angled side view.
	+ Multiple position changes would occur for different shots, such as Goldenpelt glaring at Spottedshadow.