The Theme from Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis:

original lyric by Minako Obata [from www.animelyrics.com], music by Toshiyuki Honda

modified lyric by Daniel M. Dobkin

ORIGINAL: Burning orange light slowly melt into the sky Sparkles in your eyes aglow Cold and heartless walls and never ending sighs When you held me close, were gone I'd have never known if you had never shown Someday I'd have wings to fly But who'd ever dream these arms were meant to break So I must go Before you see me fall I recall sweet and enchanted days Your smile chased the clouds away All fragments of our memory survive Shining in the moonless night Life time is a match A momentary flash Yet this forever remains You are in my heart Until my heart's not mine So remember This never is Good-bye I recall sweet and enchanted days Your smile chased the clouds away All fragments of our memory survive Shining in the moonless night Stay close to my soul Like you're close to my hands Darling if I fade away You are in my heart Until my heart's not mine But I must go Before you see me fall So remember This never is Good-bye Please remember There'll never be Good-bye Contributed by Sae <sae@mysky.net <mailto:sae@mysky.net>> <http://www.mysky.net>

MODIFIED: Burning orange light slowly melts into the sky sparkling in your eyes at dawn Cold imprisoning walls and eternal hopeless sighs When you held me close were gone I'd have never known if you had never shown Someday I'd have wings to fly But who'd ever dream that soaring in your arms was merely the pride before the fall. I recall sweet and enchanted days your smile chased the clouds away Scattered fragments of our memories survive shining in the moonless night. A lifetime is a match a momentary flash a teardrop falling in the sea; Promise when I'm gone you'll keep my heart for me And remember this never is goodbye. I recall sweet and enchanted days your smile chased the clouds away Scattered fragments of our memories survive shining in the moonless night. Reach into my soul so I'll never have to say Darling, when I fade away: Hold me in your glance as if we had a chance for a moment before you see me fall. So remember this never is goodbye Please remember there'll never be goodbye.   NOTE: the rhyming scheme is improved if the second stanza ['A lifetime is a match'] and the third ['Reach into my soul'] are swapped, at the cost of a greater divergence from the original lyric. In this case the references to specific scenes (Ken-ichi losing his grip on Tima, and then recovering her heart from the maintenance crew) are also in the order of the events in the film.

 

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