【Touhou Lyrics】 The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field

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Kanako's theme. ...I once had the opportunity to visit the real-life Suwa Shrine in Japan, and it fueled my fascination with how gods like her function. These lyrics follow her ambitious quest for faith, while navigating themes of "traditional versus modern" and "earth versus sky." With her co-goddess Suwako (earth) representing the foundation, they powerfully coexist, but she wants to put herself in focus and go farther. This is the rhetoric of gathering faith from Gensokyo's youkai, creatures "so much like her" whose existence is similarly rooted in belief. Perhaps it's also the rhetoric she gave to Utsuho in Subterranean Animism: to extend her power upwards from within the earth.


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Touhou Project 10, Mountain of Faith
Kanako Yasaka: "The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field"
Original music by ZUN.
English lyrics and fandub vocals by me.
Art from the official "Who's Who of Humans & Youkai in Gensokyo" articles, published in "Strange Creators of Outer World." Illustrator: Masakichi (匡吉).

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All in one direction grow, to reach where we were meant to go…
A place more real than reality, more than you could know…
If you listen carefully, you hear the winds of change begin to blow…

Minds that tread it carefully are oft accused of twisted scheming.
Minds that feel with ignorance are blamed of innocently dreaming.
All the same, a source of power: single-minded, double-teaming.
Only in the future will these battles carry any meaning.

Laid down and left to rust. Always, we’re dust to dust.
Grasping for threads of trust, do what we must do…

From the present to the ancient, now let them unite.
Gaze on the results of a noble fight!
Turn upwards to the sky, if you’re willing to care.
Honor to the past with a modern prayer!

Living in an age of wonder, ready for a renovation,
Fantasy foundation meeting scientific innovation.
Forward into freedom, no more waiting on an invitation.
Understand the underpinning, make a move in imitation…

Out beyond the boundary, the prayers may continue praying;
Humans, in their transience, hardly realizing what they’re saying.
Welcome change in ripples, while the core of life is firmly staying:
What is cherished never fades away.

Laid down and left to rust. Always, we’re dust to dust.
Grasping for threads of trust, do what we must do…

Won’t you hold my presence safe? (You, who are so much like me…)
Just one seed of faith… (Just one seed, and the fruit of life is yours to reap.)
Sown in sacred space… (An endless fount of power…)
Claim this rightful place… (We rise to heavenly heights!)

All things shall grow… (In one direction…)
Toward the sun, ever diligently reaching for tomorrow.
Love earth, but you must fly.
Go, reach for the sky!