Reviews for _-={Precious Seconds}=-_

[Key-Reaper]

Ahha!

Long time eh? I know I know its just a bunch of school work... haven't been able to touch the computer for a while. A very nice song. The name really made me think you were making another battle themed song, nope. Tricked us :). Has a very good climax were the violins do that prance sort-of thing. Then the ending even had a greater effect on me. Like something just big happened and nobody notices... nobody...
Good Job Keep up the Work! meh be expecting the next review in like 2 months :/. heheh....

MaestroRage responds:

heh, it takes me a month to respond to reviews now!? Blasphemy I know! I swear I won't let that happen again!

I really liked what you wrote on your last sentence there Key-Reaper. "Like something just big happened, and nobody notices."

It is unfortunate, that so many things in life are lost in this way. Something truly wonderful, something grand and wondrous, destroyed, or lost forever without anybody being the wiser...

Thank you kindly for the review, I hope when you do return, you will find yourself entertained! I apologize for the late response!

[Zen-Zudokai]

A warrior finds her determination...

Hello my friend. I don't know how long this song has been and if it has been here for a while I'm sorry for the late review. This piece was quite difficult to write a story for. I thought, and thought, and thought some more before it finally hit me. (Get's icepack for wound on head ;( ) Here it is. A young woman is training in the forest. She is training hard and harder still till the point to where her body can take the training no further. As she is doing double-skips on a jumprope she suddenly trips and slams her head against a oak tree and falls down. As she slowly gets up recovering from the fall her teacher comes from behind a tree. "So...taking a break already eh?" She gets up and says to her teacher in a brash manner, "What do you want master? If it's about the blunder I just made I'll just train harder to improve!" The master smiles and shakes his head and says, "No. I just wanted to give you congraduations for all the work you've done in the village. You think...you think yourself to be weak but you really are strong. " The woman kicks the oak tree repeated times in anger. She's heard that line before. "You're just saying that, like everyone else, just to be nice!! I'm still weak! Only through training will I be able to be strong!! I'm not a master of anything...I keep thinking about my brother...how when I first fought him and how I lost miseribly. I get so scared thinking about facing him again...and think that if I train three or four times as much as I used to that I might finally defeat him. But...whenever I think of that fight, I get the feeling that things will be no different. It scares me so much that my body trembles at the thought! That no matter how much I train that I'll never be as strong as him!" Tears steams down the young woman's face and the master closes his eyes in deep understanding. Suddenly his eyes open and they blaze fiercely with intense fire before he shouts, "ALL YOUR TRAINING WILL PROVE UTTERELY WORTHLESS...UNLESS YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!!" The woman raises her head and her master whispers, "I give hope to your kind..." The warrior turns around and whispers back, "And...I never kept any...for myself." No matter what the situation, no matter how hard a piece might seem to be able to create, remember Maestro and all of Newgrounds. All of your practicing will prove worthless unless you truly belive in yourselves! Look into the storm and shout, "Do your worst! For I will do mine!" Keep up the good work...

MaestroRage responds:

very true Zen... I sincerely apologize for my late response. I have read this review at least 3 times a week since it's creation, for it speaks volumes.

All your training will prove utterly worthless unles you believe in yourself. Truer words have been spoken very sparsely before. It seems like such an obvious thing to know, but really without truly dwelling deep within it's meaning, you get nothing out of it.

As for that storm, I can see it coming at the end of my education here in Computer Science. It is one I will have to encounter sooner or later, thank you for the story Zen.

And again for the review. I apologize again for the late response, I am glad you liked it!

[GeLaTiNoUsTuRnCoAt]

Precious Seconds...

The pieces click into place... time... has abandoned you.
It is something so easily wasted yet so impossible to accrue.
It gave you part of itself, from the moment you drew first breath,
but it is a thing you can not keep, and so it has brought you death.

You took your time and time takes back,
but in turn gives life anew.
The hands will clap, and the gears will clack,
but time will kill them, too.

Nothing so emotional as the thought of infinity... both comforting and unsettling.
This song has elements of both of those core feelings. If you have that, the raw essence of time's infinite power is apparent. It's hard to imagine infinity, but I think the art of music itself is so far beyond human kinds' complete understanding, that it may just be possible to represent it with music... very well done

MaestroRage responds:

I really really liked your second verse there GeL. Even the cold, dead metallic hands of the clock would be killed by time. Nothing, even something that never lived, would be destroyed and thus killed by time.

The last two lines of the first verse were also very deep in my eyes.

Music, I have always believed, has so many layers it can boggle the mind. Move it, entertain it, stimulate, and even corrode it. It is as you say, infinite.

Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!

[karlsazn]

*insert high vocabulary adjective here*

i must say, this song is quite exceptional. i really enjoyed the choir midway through. Music like this reminds me of David Orr for some odd reason, both powerful? you're definetly one of my favorite classical artists on here.

on a side note, do u have any songs with flute? i apologize for not listening to all your tracks, i only have 15mins on here every other day =\, which btw i devote to you =p

[MysterysGames]

Wow

This piece produces a lot of images in my mind whenever I listen to it. A very emotional track with a mixture of sadness and courageousness. Keep up the great work :)