Re birthday (song)

"A black room, a great spring, I am alone."

- Irregular

Re_birthday is a song released by Akuno-P on Dec 27, 2008. It is the fourth song in the Clockwork Lullaby Series, depicting the awakening and imprisonment of a mysterious boy.

Plot
The story starts where a boy awakens alone in a dark room that has clockwork mechanisms on the ceiling. Not being able to see, he then hears a voice saying that he will be staying there for eternity and he starts to remember all the evil he has done. He finds that his arms are in red handcuffs, like the red of bloodshed, and his ankles are in blue shackles, like the blue of tears shed. The boy hears a "Lu li la" melody of someone's voice coming from somewhere and is slowly healing his soul, though he wonders who it is singing the melody.

An unspecified amount of time passes, and one day, the boy recognizes the meaning of the lullaby being sung and adds new words to it. Out of the ceiling a "message" arrives in the form of a light and the clockwork begins to move as the chains disappear, saying he will soon be reborn and this is his new birthday.

Composition
The song uses Kagamine Len's VOCALOID2 voicebank, along with a radio filter during the bridge. Backing vocals from Hatsune Miku, MEIKO, KAITO, and Kagamine Rin can be heard during certain verses of the song. Synthesized instruments are used as well, primarily a synth piano, drums, and a synth guitar.

The synths begin at 0.02, and at 0.09 the song gains more instrumental backing. At 0.27, the first verse begins, followed by a pre-chorus at 1.01. At 1.18, the first chorus begins, followed by the "lu li la" melody at 1.57. A brief instrumental similar to the beginning is heard at 2.07, and the second verse begins at 2.26, followed by a melody similar to the chorus of The Servant of Evil heard at 3.03. At 3.17, the bridge begins and is followed by the final chorus at 3.33. At 4.23, the opening instrumental can be heard again. The song fades out by 4.50.

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Clockwork Lullaby
Clockwork Lullaby shares the "Lu Li La" pattern and its healing properties as alluded to in Re_Birthday, as well as sharing a theme of adding words to the song.

Wordplay
Wordplay shares the theme of "words" as alluded to in Re_birthday.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * A "rebirthday" is an anniversary day in which someone celebrates their salvation.
 * The song was intended to somewhat act as answer to Regret Message, with both songs containing "Re" at the beginning of their titles to reinforce the parallelism.
 * This song was released in celebration of Rin and Len's first anniversary.

Curiosities

 * Re_birthday's original PV mirrors Clockwork Lullaby, depicting the Len character in a similar pose opposite of Clockwork Lullaby's mysterious singer.
 * During the original song PV, the chorus sung by Miku, KAITO, or MEIKO is complimented by the image saturating green, blue, and red respectively.
 * A rearranged version of The Servant of Evil's melody can be heard as the second musical bridge.
 * In the PV for Capriccio Farce, Irregular is shown wearing red and blue shackles, a likely reference to this song.

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