~ So many blank pages... and vapors... vapors everywhere.......... it's snowing again ~ 

Last year I began reading a story called Background Pony on the recommendation of a youtube comment suggesting that Jastrian & I's song "Ghostie" had similar themes to the fanfic by SS&E. I'm not much of a fanfiction reader (I think I'd touched no more than 3 prior to hearing about this one) yet despite the astounding length of the story, I thought the concept sounded far too interesting to not give a chance. One year later and it has become my personal favorite work of literary fiction ever, fanfiction or not. 

Around the same time L.M. and I began working on this song. I'd originally suggested we cover Porter & Madeon's "Shelter", but L.M. apparently had a better idea XP I started writing the lyrics more based on emotion than anything in particular. Confusion, loneliness, loss, the state of being directionless... But then I reached the end of Background Pony, and it all connected so cleanly to what I had already been writing down that I just had to connect the dots.

This then, is a song about Lyra Heartstrings' own internal conflicts as she ponders on the choice she must make in the final chapters of Background Pony. I don't wish to spoil the ending for you all, though I suppose this song does it's fare share of spoiling already if you listen too hard to it, so all I can do instead is recommend it~ SS&E, if you ever hear this song, I want to thank you for the hours of enjoyment your story gave. It made me cry, it made me smile, it made me think, it challenged me, and I feel like I am better for it.

This short song can hardly return the favor, but I hope you enjoy it regardless ^^ L.M. did such an astounding job on the instrumental, that fact cannot be understated, and Darkflame (the artist behind the famous "Fritzy Luna Icon" I have here on Youtube ;P) created the most perfectly genuine art to accompany it. And of course everyone's comment-section friend Makenshi can't be overlooked for the video effects and Cider Party post ^^

Thank you all so much for all your help and contributions, and to all of you who listen to this music. Even if the names and people may be forgotten as time goes forward, the impacts you've left on my life will remain. I hope more than anything to get to see you again beyond that.

Thank you all so very much, God bless, and I hope you enjoy! ~

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Lyrics & Vocals by FritzyBeat

Music by L.M. 
https://www.youtube.com/user/LMWub

Based on the fanfic "Background Pony" by Shortskirtsandexplosions
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19198/background-pony

Download: 
https://lucienmusique.bandcamp.com/track/l-m-fritzybeat-time-lapse

Artwork by Darkflame
http://darkflame7.tumblr.com/
https://darkflame75.deviantart.com/

Video effects by Makenshi
https://www.youtube.com/user/Makenshi179

Continue...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOdbNppaOU

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Lyrics:

I wake from a dreamless state; why is cold all I can feel
I reach out but I cannot touch what I know mustn't be real
Are you leaving me?
Am I alone again?
It feels like there was something else but I can’t quite make it out

It’s all so surreal
But I don’t know what it means
All these words and images
Painting feelings but not things

I’m forgetting
Am I okay with this
Am I okay with losing you
Am I okay with losing me

It seems like after all this time no we never made it far
And even if we could start all over we’d still be where we are
Is it hopeless?
Will you forget again?
There’s something calling from the other side but the words I can’t make out

It sounds so surreal
But I don’t know what it means
All these sounds and melodies painting feelings but not things
It all contravenes with the world I wish to know
But I’m willing to let it go
If only I was never alone

Forgetting
Am I okay with this?
I think it’ll be okay
I think it’ll be okay...

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"I'm not asking you to remember the afternoon we first met on Alabaster Street, or the days we spent running through the neighborhoods of Canterlot, or the nights we enjoyed slumber parties with Moondancer, playing games as Celestia, Luna, and Starswirl the Bearded. I do not ask you to remember the letters that you wrote to me from your room in the Royal Palace, or the stories you gave of all the wonderful feats of magic that you learned. I do not ask that you recall every sob or laugh or angry word you ever uttered in my presence, or the forelimbs that embraced you when you just needed to be heard, to be held, to be cherished.

I simply ask, Twilight Sparkle, if you are happy with the way things are.

Are you happy with the nature of the world, with the function of the universe, with your life as it has come to pass?"




( FritzyBeat ) -