Song: V O I C E | Artist: Cloud

Yu-Gi-Oh's first openening is all about the struggle to connect with others. The song touches on the inability to keep up with the overwhelming amount of media and pop culture consuming our lives--a message even more relevant now than back in the 90s when it was written. The song's central story tells about the singer's inability to connect with the someone close to them, unable to break past emotional barriers. The song also heavily hints that the singer themselves is depressed, and the person they wish to connect with is in fact trying the same. However, each person's attempts falls on deaf ears, giving the song a tragic end.

Desperate feelings brew
But cannot get through
At a loss for what to do
My resolve alone can’t connect with you
Nothing seems to bear fruit

Another day spent reading all these magazines
Routines execute, as though I’m just a machine
It seems that again, hit series have multiplied
If I miss a beat, the whole world leaves me behind
Last night I had a peculiar dream
In the dark park it was just you and me
I tossed you a ball and the throw was clean
But it couldn’t overcome gravity

A pile of games gather dust inside my room
Until I play them responsibility looms

You’re sitting across the table from me
But what we do can’t be called conversing
Call it nonchalance call it doom and gloom
Just tell me how to change the mood
I’m on my knees
Desperate pleas
For how things used to be
Desperate feelings brew
But cannot get through
At a loss for what to do
Things on my mind
Courage I can’t find
At the end of the line

Everything stings
Overwhelming
Living the life of a puppet on strings
Are my thoughts and decisions of my own volition

Desperate feelings brew
But cannot get through
Speaking up but left askew
You’re searching for just a single clue
To define what is true

Split worldview
No breakthrough
Best to bid adieu

Can’t undo
Life misconstrued
Longing for days with brighter hues when everything seemed new