Waxing and Wanding

Song Information

Artist: 青龍 (Seiryuu)
BPM: 191
Genre: Dance Speed
VJ: GOLI
First Appeared On: AC DistorteD
Length: 2:05

Song Connections/Remixes

One of the four Cardinal Gate songs.
A long version of this song appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion CD (on CS DistorteD's Special edition) along with Contract, Ganymede, Kachoufusetsu, and Nageki no Ki.
Another long version of this song appears on the bonus disc of Ryu☆'s album starmine.
waxing and wanding (kors k mix), remixed by kors k, is on Ryu☆'s album starmine.

Lyrics

Are you ready?
raise the goddess, raise the goddess
Are you ready?
pump up the great power
Are you ready?
raise the goddess, raise the goddess
Are you ready?
pump up the great power

*repeat

Trivia

The song's title refers to two phases of the moon, "Waxing" (when it changes from new moon to full moon) and "Waning" (from full moon to new moon).
青龍 is Ryu☆'s alias. This was confirmed when he played "waxing and wanding" during his set at the 2007 beatnation summit -beatmaniaIIDX premium Live- concert.
The video features two embodiments of Seiryuu, one being a blue dragon, and the other being a woman in kimono, resembling the woman in the video of Setsugekka (another Ryu☆ song with a GOLI video).
Seiryuu is a Chinese god that is a blue dragon.
In Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood 1 of 4 of Maria's animal friends is a dragon. The rest are a cat, turtle, and bird.

Song Production Information

I love the moon.

Once when I was travelling to Europe, when we were flying over Siberia, the only thing floating up in an empty, and I mean truly empty, sky was a perfectly round moon. It looked just like a shimmering, perfectly round pearl. The nature of the air high in the atmosphere lent to the effect, and it traced out an arc in extremely high resolution. As I was watching this gem of the heavens and bathed in its almost mystical light, I fell into the impression that all of my everyday cares were being healed.

This image is burned deep into my retinas.

This wonderful voyage occurred four months after I finished this song.
What!? Yes, that's right. Four months after. Almost exactly.
The passage before was just making up an image. Sorry. I'll reflect on what I've done.
As I made this song, I was thinking lots of exuberant thoughts like "Oh~, the moon. It's awesome~! So fabulous!"

Yes. That's right! It was four months after. I just grew a little bit, is all.
Don't make me say it over and over again.

Well, thank you so very much for having a look again today. This has been Seiryuu, and now everything is exposed.

For some reason, T called this song "wowow".
Maybe it doesn't abbreviate very well, I just don't get it, it's just one thing after another ...

And so, with everything exposed, this is Sei ... huh? Hey, I told you, it was four months later!
Four months later, and not a centimeter more! Get serious, I'm gonna get mad!

Video Production Information

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