If the Original Border of Life is a song signifying Yuyuko's afterlife as a ghost; Carefree and Whimsical, then this arrange would signify her the time when she was still alive, sad and very much alone. Since she could not find happiness when she was alive, she found it in her afterlife
I think TAMusic's Pianist(s) has one of the best arrangement for lot of touhou songs, where most of touhou piano arrangements are very fast paced and technical, TAMusic makes simples arrangements but keep all the emotions in their songs, and this is awesome.
Death is...death is a gift. Death is what makes us who we are. Can you imagine if you were to be unable to die? To quote Mokou, "If you cannot die, then you are not truly alive." If we each and everyone of us lived forever, we'd never create...we'd never progress....and worst of all, we'd never be able to leave our most precious gift. Memories.
This song makes me feel like weeping towards the end and I don't even have anything in particular to be really sad about. Dang, I don't get that way with too many songs. It just forces the emotion out of you.
There so many beautiful comentaries, sad and some reflectives too.. that fact just make this song more beautiful than he actually is. I dont know and never see anyone right here but i hope you'all are good, safe and happy.
Everyone that is currently mourning the death of a loved one like myself, do not worry yourselves because Yuyuko is watching over their spirits or have gone to heaven so don't worry :)
Death... is the beautiful epitome of sorrow. Death is not an end... It is a reunion with past friends. For without Death, you can never join those dearest to you... It is what gives us the feeling of being alive. Not knowing when you never die, let's you feel the joy of living. Sorrow is a beautiful emotion. It brings out the beautiful and true self that lies hidden within the human heart. Immortality is not a blessing... It is a curse, that takes away the joy of life. Only a fool, would seek it
Imperfection is what keeps humans lively since they have something to strive for. That's what defines us as alive. Pefection cannot exist because that would be boring and/or lonely. 1 perfect person= Lonely, Everyone perfect= Boring When you think about it logically, everything has a flaw. There can be something close to perfect but there will be something better but still not perfect. Does that sound a bit cheesy? That's just my way of thinking.
Being Immortal means suffering through the pain of having to lose everything around you including your friends and possessions. Even if you you live forever, nothing else can. You can no longer so the thrill of living on the border of life. Everyone around you perishes. Your attachments still linger. Death is a nice idea once we have fulfilled our wishes or else live an endless tragedy.
Absolutely stunningly beautiful rendition, and yet all so tragic.. This particular song perfectly conveys the story of Yuyuko perfectly. Damnit.. Now it's making me depressed..
Where do we go after we die? Is there an afterlife? Will we experience a neverending cycle of reincarnation? Or will we enter an empty void? What does it feel to be immortal, to never experience death? Will it be nice, as we can enjoy worldly pleasures for as long as we live (ie; an eternity)? Will we endure more heartbreak than other people will endure for the entirety of their lives, due to seeing everyone close to us die? How will the end of the world ensue in the perspective of an immortal? I'm just afraid to die, but I don't want to be immortal ;^;
Why do we even exist? Does life have meaning? Do we exist only to die? Fuck, I should be studying for my IGCSEs right now instead of pondering the meaning of life and death...
Tears, my friend. Tears is what has happened when I read this... poetically beautiful, true in it's most basic form... The mixture of the music and the poem you have bestowed upon us and everyone who comes here... is a gift. A gift I will treasure, hold close and remember. May you shine on and may you shine bright, Silphy the Poet.
TAMusic has NEVER failed to impress me. With almost all touhou circles, there's at least one song where I say "Eew. They could have done so much better. D:". But nope, not this one. Gorgeous.
Whenever I hear this song...It reminds me of how sad my life is...and also of Yuyuko's. But this has a heavenly touch to this, that makes me cry to this. This is my new favorite version of Border of Life now!
I have a friend who's been missing for a year and six months. Talked to him basically every day online for TEN years, and now suddenly he's disappeared from facebook, msn messenger, PS3 network... I used to pester the shit out of him with touhou songs, and they eventually grew on him. :P I think this is one of the few he'd grudgingly admit to liking. No sense in being sad over it, though; he's listening, afterall.
@yuukoichi It's not so much a concept of exchange, but more a concept of a cycle that must be completed for the universe to continue existing. But your look on it still works.
Death is not good nor bad. It's just a part of the eternal circle of creation and destruction, existence and non-existence. Everything in this world has light and darkness, positive and negative. Without the darkness there wouldn't be any light. So there wouldn't be life without the death. The death itself is not your enemy nor your friend. It's just a necessity to maintain this balance.
@KitsuneDzelda Death isn't a curse. It's a means of making sure the universe doesn't lose all the energy it has. If no one died, there would not be any energy left at some point to make new things.
since noone is immortal noone can know what it would be like to be immortal. personally i would see it as a chance to gain a complete understanding the universe. transhumanism is the idea of humans becoming immortal through technology and possibly even becoming something like what religious people might call a god.
why everyone fear death? because it a proof that we are not almithy, that we, can disapears, that we are not essential. something people want to ignore, to denied, because its simple maybe to think that ''i can do anything''? but the true is, we are going to die, and the most important is ''what after death?'', but ''did you accept it?''. and why people fear immortality? because of the same thinks that before: you can't control everything, people around us will die, and we have to accept the lost. because people are not our property, and inside, we always consider the other like this. because we don't learn how to live without dependence of other. an hermit can be immortal, because he don't need people, he will live, meet people, and accept the goodbye. in summary of what i said, is that we don't learn how to be humble, so we fear death, that recall of our fragile condition, and we don't learn to be humble, because we want to control a lot of thing, our life, and that mean, the persons we care abouts. not to be a puppeter, but we don't learn to consider the friend, the lover, or family like a person, that have a fragile condition too, and so, can't accept the fact of that person dissapear.
I'm fairly certain someone's composed some sheet music for this song (Border of Life) but I don't believe any exists for this particular version. :\ Can't help you out as to where to download it either as I was looking for it myself. Good luck though!
The entire nature is based around an endless cycle of life and death, one can't exist without the other. Death is not a gift on its own perse, but very necessary nonetheless. You sure wouldn't be here if your ancestors, or everything living, would be immortal.
Death can not be avoided. People who wish to avoid it seek the path of misery. Those who hold to the world and not move on are unaware of change, allowing them to not see the future. Sadness is brought to all all three, but only one is unachievable. Those who achieve immortality will suffer more than any of the three.
i was play a sports game whiling listening to this and the song may me feel like i was playing a meanless match like the end was always gonna be a sad and depressing result
Immortality is a fine idea. Being immortal by yourself WOULD suck, but what if everyone was immortal? barring the problems with space and food, it would nice if one day death was an OPTION, not a reality we are all forced to deal with. Space travel and colonization are one solution to the space problem, laws about procreation is another (vastly less popular I would imagine though). And ill keep my opinion of the 'if you cant die, you can never live' melodrama to myself i think.
Will you all kindly stfu and enjoy the music? Jeez, people always find the smallest reasons to start pointless, endless arguments, and I really can't see how anyone can be even slightly angry while listening to such a beautiful song.
@AmvFr34k A perfect world? A world where we each live forever? If every person had forever, then there would be no drive. What is it that drives ambition? When it comes down to it, no matter how you may try to justify your reason for doing something, it comes down to, "because you may not have that chance again." Right? A world with immortality is not a perfect world, it is a world that means -nothing-
Actually, there isn't that big difference in difficulty between Easy and Normal. No one gets a new spellcard, they only get few "improvements" and every pattern is faster and more dense. I'd say it does about 30-40% extra difficulty. The gap between Normal and Hard is HUGE, though. New, brutal spellcards, and the old ones are even deadlier than before.
But then, would we be perfect? We aren't gods, but just immortal. Can we ever overcome human weaknesses like xenophobia? Would things like wars would stop just because we're immortal? The old gods in Roman and Greek literature sure didn't. Maybe we would be happy, but immortality also means more freedom, even now, there are many people who start things like forest fires for their own pleasure, having no fear of death also means you can do many more 'bad' things with barely any consequences.
@AmvFr34k While I can see your point, to an extent. No, I don't think it'd be a matter of sitting on a rock accomplishing -nothing- it'd be a strive to fix things. We'd solve world hunger, achieve world peace, and all these other good things, we really would. I believe that. It'd be utopia in that sense. But then what?
@blazethecat363: People will sought anything that they don't have and if ever the time comes where people have everything they will seek for nothingness.
Wow, I completely forgot about that comment. I'm surprised by the fact it's the top one. I still say I wouldn't choose immortality though, I would want to experience death as well as life. It's just more fulfilling in my eyes.
Or were Lunarians since they seem to shun/hate those that can die - considering them to be sinful and impure. To become a ghost you have to die yes? (Though they do seem to be fond of ghosts due to the absence of life...?)
The most beautiful adaptation of Border of Life I've ever heard. 5 stars. I'm sorry to bother you, and to sound like one of those really annoying people, but can I get the download link for this? For some reason all the youtube converters don't work on some Border of Life songs, and I really love this version.
@comedylov Corny it may be, but you can't change someone's mind if they like an arrange. And I'm a female, if you haven't noticed... If there's a simple connection between a listener and music, let it be. I personally look back, and am embarrassed by my own comment. It was indeed corny, but I can't take it back now.
![[東方 Piano] TAMUSIC - 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜 ～ Border of Life](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c27PUuNLPpE/mqdefault.jpg)
If the Original Border of Life is a song signifying Yuyuko's afterlife as a ghost; Carefree and Whimsical, then this arrange would signify her the time when she was still alive, sad and very much alone. Since she could not find happiness when she was alive, she found it in her afterlife
I think TAMusic's Pianist(s) has one of the best arrangement for lot of touhou songs, where most of touhou piano arrangements are very fast paced and technical, TAMusic makes simples arrangements but keep all the emotions in their songs, and this is awesome.
Death is...death is a gift. Death is what makes us who we are. Can you imagine if you were to be unable to die? To quote Mokou, "If you cannot die, then you are not truly alive." If we each and everyone of us lived forever, we'd never create...we'd never progress....and worst of all, we'd never be able to leave our most precious gift. Memories.
This song makes me feel like weeping towards the end and I don't even have anything in particular to be really sad about. Dang, I don't get that way with too many songs. It just forces the emotion out of you.
I want this piece of music played in my funeral.
泣いた。
There so many beautiful comentaries, sad and some reflectives too.. that fact just make this song more beautiful than he actually is. I dont know and never see anyone right here but i hope you'all are good, safe and happy.
Everyone that is currently mourning the death of a loved one like myself, do not worry yourselves because Yuyuko is watching over their spirits or have gone to heaven so don't worry :)
I think this song touched my heart for a second there. Unbelievably sad yet expressive music. Good job Tamusic!
Death... is the beautiful epitome of sorrow. Death is not an end... It is a reunion with past friends. For without Death, you can never join those dearest to you... It is what gives us the feeling of being alive. Not knowing when you never die, let's you feel the joy of living. Sorrow is a beautiful emotion. It brings out the beautiful and true self that lies hidden within the human heart. Immortality is not a blessing... It is a curse, that takes away the joy of life. Only a fool, would seek it
Deep philosophy along with a beautiful piece of music. It all ties in so well
Imperfection is what keeps humans lively since they have something to strive for. That's what defines us as alive.
Pefection cannot exist because that would be boring and/or lonely.
1 perfect person= Lonely, Everyone perfect= Boring
When you think about it logically, everything has a flaw.
There can be something close to perfect but there will be something better but still not perfect.
Does that sound a bit cheesy? That's just my way of thinking.
This version definitely depicts Yuyuko's sad story...T_T
It's so beautiful too....
Beautiful arrangement.
This should never be listened to while reading "Two by this Side, Three by the Other Side" unless you want to drown in feels.
agree with this. the melody really fits the story. the moment she read her diary when she was alive. damn feels
wow, its already been 2 years. Completely forgot about that doujin. time for a reread
ahaha... I read it first a year ago and still love it so much. well, personal color really full of doujins like that after all
Best touhou doujin I've read so far, by FAR.
made that mistake already. ;-;
Finally got this song downloaded. It's quite the lovely song.
これ聞いて寝るとすぐ寝れる
Being Immortal means suffering through the pain of having to lose everything around you including your friends and possessions. Even if you you live forever, nothing else can. You can no longer so the thrill of living on the border of life. Everyone around you perishes. Your attachments still linger. Death is a nice idea once we have fulfilled our wishes or else live an endless tragedy.
Tam's Touhou Lullaby albums tuck me to sleep like a baby~
Absolutely stunningly beautiful rendition, and yet all so tragic.. This particular song perfectly conveys the story of Yuyuko perfectly.
Damnit.. Now it's making me depressed..
TAM Music always makes me feel emotional.
Where do we go after we die?
Is there an afterlife? Will we experience a neverending cycle of reincarnation? Or will we enter an empty void?
What does it feel to be immortal, to never experience death? Will it be nice, as we can enjoy worldly pleasures for as long as we live (ie; an eternity)? Will we endure more heartbreak than other people will endure for the entirety of their lives, due to seeing everyone close to us die?
How will the end of the world ensue in the perspective of an immortal?
I'm just afraid to die, but I don't want to be immortal ;^;
Why do we even exist? Does life have meaning? Do we exist only to die?
Fuck, I should be studying for my IGCSEs right now instead of pondering the meaning of life and death...
answer: no
Well in the world of Touhou immortals seem to just keep punching eachother until they are bored
Kima Gacha UwU
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
Put your trust in him.
This life is just the beginning. We go into Newgame+ in Version 2.0 afterwards.
Tears, my friend. Tears is what has happened when I read this... poetically beautiful, true in it's most basic form... The mixture of the music and the poem you have bestowed upon us and everyone who comes here... is a gift. A gift I will treasure, hold close and remember. May you shine on and may you shine bright, Silphy the Poet.
That's awesome, now I wanna hear a slow violin solo version of Border of Life!!
くっそ悲しくなるな........................
Yep. Sometimes death is a mercy.
TAMusic has NEVER failed to impress me. With almost all touhou circles, there's at least one song where I say "Eew. They could have done so much better. D:". But nope, not this one. Gorgeous.
Whenever I hear this song...It reminds me of how sad my life is...and also of Yuyuko's. But this has a heavenly touch to this, that makes me cry to this. This is my new favorite version of Border of Life now!
This is a really beautiful song TAMusic have done really soft and good music
This is the first time i hear that, and now i NEED to play that, i won't have any peace until i find the score for this one !
Kay. Like...When I clicked Yuyuko's theme I DID NOT EXPECT THE COMMENT BOX TO BE SO DEEP...
This is...So Touching...It makes me remind of Yuyukos life...And...Somehow...Mine
I have a friend who's been missing for a year and six months. Talked to him basically every day online for TEN years, and now suddenly he's disappeared from facebook, msn messenger, PS3 network... I used to pester the shit out of him with touhou songs, and they eventually grew on him. :P I think this is one of the few he'd grudgingly admit to liking. No sense in being sad over it, though; he's listening, afterall.
@yuukoichi It's not so much a concept of exchange, but more a concept of a cycle that must be completed for the universe to continue existing. But your look on it still works.
Death is not good nor bad. It's just a part of the eternal circle of creation and destruction, existence and non-existence. Everything in this world has light and darkness, positive and negative. Without the darkness there wouldn't be any light. So there wouldn't be life without the death. The death itself is not your enemy nor your friend. It's just a necessity to maintain this balance.
I can see Yuyuko saying this.
fuck that I don't want to die. Unlike yuyuko I can't still function, think, and experience after death.
Sam Leens
>"Death is impure"
Suwako Moriya
I love this version.... so beautiful and peaceful ^^
@KitsuneDzelda Death isn't a curse. It's a means of making sure the universe doesn't lose all the energy it has. If no one died, there would not be any energy left at some point to make new things.
since noone is immortal noone can know what it would be like to be immortal. personally i would see it as a chance to gain a complete understanding the universe. transhumanism is the idea of humans becoming immortal through technology and possibly even becoming something like what religious people might call a god.
幽々子も亡霊になる前に色々あるからなぁ
こんなにマイペースで最強なのにね
I can imagine hearing this just after dying. no, on the border of life
The laws of thermodynamics applies to a closed and constant sized system. So even then they don't even apply to our universe.
why everyone fear death? because it a proof that we are not almithy, that we, can disapears, that we are not essential. something people want to ignore, to denied, because its simple maybe to think that ''i can do anything''? but the true is, we are going to die, and the most important is ''what after death?'', but ''did you accept it?''.
and why people fear immortality? because of the same thinks that before: you can't control everything, people around us will die, and we have to accept the lost. because people are not our property, and inside, we always consider the other like this. because we don't learn how to live without dependence of other. an hermit can be immortal, because he don't need people, he will live, meet people, and accept the goodbye.
in summary of what i said, is that we don't learn how to be humble, so we fear death, that recall of our fragile condition, and we don't learn to be humble, because we want to control a lot of thing, our life, and that mean, the persons we care abouts. not to be a puppeter, but we don't learn to consider the friend, the lover, or family like a person, that have a fragile condition too, and so, can't accept the fact of that person dissapear.
I'm fairly certain someone's composed some sheet music for this song (Border of Life) but I don't believe any exists for this particular version. :\
Can't help you out as to where to download it either as I was looking for it myself. Good luck though!
The entire nature is based around an endless cycle of life and death, one can't exist without the other. Death is not a gift on its own perse, but very necessary nonetheless.
You sure wouldn't be here if your ancestors, or everything living, would be immortal.
I'm not gonna cry, I'm not gonna cry...
Death truly is freedom, isn't it?
makes me sleep, so relaxin' love it -w-
I suddenly have the urge to hug a ghost.
Death can not be avoided. People who wish to avoid it seek the path of misery. Those who hold to the world and not move on are unaware of change, allowing them to not see the future. Sadness is brought to all all three, but only one is unachievable. Those who achieve immortality will suffer more than any of the three.
Exactly.
i was play a sports game whiling listening to this and the song may me feel like i was playing a meanless match like the end was always gonna be a sad and depressing result
Immortality is a fine idea. Being immortal by yourself WOULD suck, but what if everyone was immortal? barring the problems with space and food, it would nice if one day death was an OPTION, not a reality we are all forced to deal with. Space travel and colonization are one solution to the space problem, laws about procreation is another (vastly less popular I would imagine though). And ill keep my opinion of the 'if you cant die, you can never live' melodrama to myself i think.
I had never searched up "TAMUSIC" on TH-cam until now. How have I been so ignorant?
Finally someone who's not an hypocrite...
not to be insensitive but I'm pretty sure this is lifted from some of Porky's final lines in Mother 3
LOVE this version! sheet music please =)
no, life is an imprissoning, death is freedom
the quote is indeed correct
Will you all kindly stfu and enjoy the music? Jeez, people always find the smallest reasons to start pointless, endless arguments, and I really can't see how anyone can be even slightly angry while listening to such a beautiful song.
A theme worthy of the Dead Mistress of the Eternal Netherworld.
@AmvFr34k A perfect world? A world where we each live forever? If every person had forever, then there would be no drive. What is it that drives ambition? When it comes down to it, no matter how you may try to justify your reason for doing something, it comes down to, "because you may not have that chance again." Right? A world with immortality is not a perfect world, it is a world that means -nothing-
Actually, there isn't that big difference in difficulty between Easy and Normal. No one gets a new spellcard, they only get few "improvements" and every pattern is faster and more dense. I'd say it does about 30-40% extra difficulty.
The gap between Normal and Hard is HUGE, though. New, brutal spellcards, and the old ones are even deadlier than before.
Son of a...I think i'm gonna cry. *sniff* .....Dammit.
感動與傷逝，聲聲漫無期。
But then, would we be perfect? We aren't gods, but just immortal. Can we ever overcome human weaknesses like xenophobia? Would things like wars would stop just because we're immortal? The old gods in Roman and Greek literature sure didn't. Maybe we would be happy, but immortality also means more freedom, even now, there are many people who start things like forest fires for their own pleasure, having no fear of death also means you can do many more 'bad' things with barely any consequences.
such a prettie song.. ;w;
@AmvFr34k While I can see your point, to an extent. No, I don't think it'd be a matter of sitting on a rock accomplishing -nothing- it'd be a strive to fix things. We'd solve world hunger, achieve world peace, and all these other good things, we really would. I believe that. It'd be utopia in that sense. But then what?
This + RainyMood. Just try it.
Well,it is raining in my place when I am listening this.
@Crushmaster01 I wouldn't make baseless assumptions such as her killing her own family like that. It makes the character look bad.
0:00 - 6:18 = best part
@ReimuHakureiShrine ...
I'll donate.
Enough to make the hakurei shrine more famous than the Moriya Shrine.
Here from Touhou Sketches Yuyuko Saigyouji Edition.
@KitsuneDzelda Seeing how everything is easily taken away from you, im afraid not even memories stands permanent.
@GentlemanAeon777 Thank you
@yevonator88 Be like the pros- get the sheet music for the original song, and mess with it, until you get a nice-sounding mix of it.
One's in Tam's "Koiiro Touhou Komoriuta" album. Dunno if it's on youtube.
At least there are many ways to remove such things as immortality in gensokyo^^
So no need for mokou to suffer unless she chose to
Hell, I don't get the whole "omg GHOSTS /;_;"-comments but..
This is one awesome piece of music.
Heh. I just 1cc'd Perfect Cherry Blossom at Normal. Holy shit, when Yuyuko fired her Resurrection butterfly, I sweated bullets.
I can barely 1cc PCB on easy, I don't even wanna think about what Yuyuko's like on Normal...
@blazethecat363: People will sought anything that they don't have and if ever the time comes where people have everything they will seek for nothingness.
Wow, I completely forgot about that comment. I'm surprised by the fact it's the top one. I still say I wouldn't choose immortality though, I would want to experience death as well as life. It's just more fulfilling in my eyes.
Or were Lunarians since they seem to shun/hate those that can die - considering them to be sinful and impure. To become a ghost you have to die yes?
(Though they do seem to be fond of ghosts due to the absence of life...?)
@KitsuneDzelda Why must you think death as a curse?
Fuck, this is great.
Does anyone have the piano sheet for this? It's so beautiful.
墨染櫻(スミゾメザクラ )
名稱由來是日本京都伏見區墨染寺中的墨染櫻，起源於平安時代詩人上野岑雄哀悼藤原基經的和歌有：「深草の野辺の桜し心あらば今年ばかりは墨染めに咲け*」。
「深草野邊櫻，今年應有情。花開都黑色，喪服墨磨成。」
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The most beautiful adaptation of Border of Life I've ever heard. 5 stars.
I'm sorry to bother you, and to sound like one of those really annoying people, but can I get the download link for this? For some reason all the youtube converters don't work on some Border of Life songs, and I really love this version.
13 years later, now there should be one that can download it
Hooray, no RPers here! But yes, this song is beautiful and makes you think...
@rebbybeckers1987 is there still no sheets for this version? even just someone playing it on an angle i can follow to get me started?
@comedylov Corny it may be, but you can't change someone's mind if they like an arrange. And I'm a female, if you haven't noticed... If there's a simple connection between a listener and music, let it be. I personally look back, and am embarrassed by my own comment. It was indeed corny, but I can't take it back now.
2008 😲
@BadAssBlackOverlord Well, I can admit with that :>...
why didnt i hear this when it came out T_T
omg I want this music!! can someone tell me where I can get the sheet music for this?
Any chance you can get us a music for this version of Border Of Life?
Maybe I should just remain quiet...
ive always hated piano until now, can u plz get me the notes for these so i can start playing piano PLZZZ!!!
@BadAssBlackOverlord That was.. Overly stupid and harsh :D
Is there absolutely anywhere to get sheet music to this?
any sheets to this? or a MIDI? :O