Srs thinking: 30 minutes night flight

Here you can download the song or just listen to it online: 30 Mins Night Flight by Maaya Sakamoto.

Lyrics and rest of the entry are below.

Keep softly silent and come along with me
to the silver night sky
I made a first and last promise with you

My sleeplessness isn’t all in my head

I was waiting for a sign to suddenly appear

I’m crossing over every boundary line

between sky and earth – leading you tonight

Your side profile kept quiet, head shaking to say it’s nothing
I found you in your first and last life

Hey, even if it’s a coincidence seeming almost forbidden

something is guiding us

I’m crossing over every boundary line
of city and country – taking you on board tonight
Don’t turn away from this scenery
Watch it properly, how things are
The polluted rain, shadows that won’t disappear
Take all of it in
This is the world we live in

Say nothing and close your eyes
towards the silver universe

As morning comes, open your eyes
Even if we forget everything completely

I’m crossing over every boundary line
between sky and earth – leading you tonight
Don’t turn away from this scenery

Watch it properly, how things are
The blue lights, the scent of water
The voice of a person singing of love
This is the world we live in

Well, after showing you the lyrics, I just felt like having to spend a couple words about it.

So firstly, how comes this song is so awesome? It merges in a really inspired way melodic lyrics and vocals to electro and synth musical tendencies. Useless to say that the overall atmosphere you get by listening to this song is just as Maaya planned to be while she was writing lyrics.

So yeah, song is about insomnia, and it’s nice to admit how listening to this song just before closing eyes to sleep relieve some of those strange feelings one has just by night-times. Sure, this is power of such good music, after all.

An insomnia song, of course, but it couldn’t not have a love segment inside of it, as well. So good that this theme is for once merged with intelligence and not in any kind of cliché-ish way.

So here my summary of this song: Maaya (who herself admitted to feel oppressed by her now emotions sometimes at night) often suffer for attacks of insomnia. During a night flight on plane, the all-lighty scenery of the grounds give her the right chance to explain us what she really feels and sees during insomnia; and while melting in once dreaming, reality and delusions, she continuely goes from being half asleep to sleep and back to awareness, confusing reality with her current mental states and vice-versa.

Simply awesome.

Maaya was so fond of this song that she really wanted to give herself an own explanation to her public. So read her official words she wrote for her site or whatever. Thanks for reading, I’ll leave you with this, and of course, goodnight:

One night, a girl who just couldn’t fall asleep, despite having turned from side to side a hundred times and heaved a hundred sighs, couldn’t take it any longer and, standing up, opened the window with a creak.

Even though the view from beyond the window would soon turn bright in due time, staring out into the pitch darkness of the night, she couldn’t bring herself to believe that the daybreak would be coming soon.

“If at this rate, the morning doesn’t come…”

And, at that moment, a small, silver toy plane passed by before her eyes. Surprised, she tried to follow it with her eyes, and the next thing she knew, the girl found herself seated in that airplane.

Even without her inputting in any commands, the plane flew ahead smoothly. While passing by numerous streets and countries, and all the boundaries plotted above this planet, she caught a glimpse of the ways in which many people lived from the skies. People living in the world, who were utterly unrelated to her. But, the truth was, everyone resembled her in some way or another – fretting over the same issues, laughing over the same things. And the girl was embarrassed, for having thought, just a few moments ago, that she was the only one in the world who was especially lonely, and who was so sad she couldn’t sleep.

When she noticed it, the plane had already reached outer space. From the planet called Earth, the shining eyes of each and every life living on it reached straight up and outwards just like searchlights, and shone into the dimensions of space. The countless pale searchlights gathered together, and the huge Earth was glimmering. And the girl slowly closed her eyes, feeling calm amidst the embrace of that light.

And when she next opened her eyes, she was in her own bed, in her own room. When she opened the window with a creak, the view beyond the window had already started turning brighter. And the girl thought, “Ah, soon tomorrow shall become today”. When she took in a deep breath, she thought she heard the faint sound of propellers in the distance, moving away from her.

To all those who have experienced nights of sleeplessness. A 30 minutes night flight.