Prologue for Sailor Saturn / Tomoe Hotaru
[from the Memorial Song Box]

"The Second Coming"
The background music is called Sai Rai or "Second Coming" and appears on the Memorial Music Box Disc 8

Written by W.B. Yeats (second stanza of poem).
Japanese translation by Osano Fumio.
Vocal performance by Minaguchi Yuko.


Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle...

Poem for Sailor Saturn / Tomoe Hotaru
[from the Memorial Song Box]

"Dreams"
The background music is the Orgel version of Sai Rai, from the Memorial Music Box Disc 9
Scenario and composition by Takeuchi Naoko.
Vocal performance by Minaguchi Yuko. Translated by Alex Glover.

Say, Haruka-papa. I wonder, how far does that darkness in the sky go? Is there a pitch-dark wall at the far end? Or is it dark like that for infinity?

Say, Michiru-mama? I wonder where rain comes from. From that city of twilight? Or from the bottom of the sea? I wonder where that puddle that disappeared went.

Say? Setsuna-mama? Why does the dawn come? That beautiful woman in the moonlight withered away. The white butterfly I caught that day with Haruka-papa and Michiru-mama died in the birdcage.

I wonder why. I'm lonely when I close my eyes. All kinds of "wonders", I saw spinning inside the lavendar monitor. Letting a drop of water fall, it spins like a filament. On and on...

Say, Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, Setsuna-mama? Hold my hand tonight. Stay with me all night long. I want to have happy dreams. Dreams the color of rainbows. Dreams where the people precious to me are smiling with joy.

Dreams that won't disappear when I open my eyes.

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