Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 45 minutes ago

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Surprise, this is my Hibiya tribute song! Not Kagerou Days! I could say it's because Kagerou Days isn't a very happy Hibiya song and would make a distasteful tribute to him (like, in your honor, we have decided to remind you of your 10 years of suffering in the Daze!). But it's mostly because I am not skillful enough to sing Kagerou Daze (or Konoha's State of the World), and I don't really want to sing it lol. Plus, Ostukimi Recital is awesome.

Now, am I making another reach by giving Hibiya Ostukimi Recital as his tribute song? Yes. Do I care? No lol. I had a lot of fun writing this song from his perspective, and I'm pretty sure I'm the first one to do so. Hibiya's cool. His backstory's compelling, and I love his antics with Momo and Hiyori. I can't dislike his creepy, stalkish pre-Daze self too much since he's a literal child, and manga villain Hibiya was pretty cool

Original song: youtube.com/watch?v=pJrNK4l0EtU
Instrumental: youtube.com/watch?v=vigeRJ0OYcI
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=Lut4jfGLfhY
Vocals: Me
Lyrics: Me! Inspired by Will Stetson, David Toth, and JubyPhonic

Lyrics:
Ready?
Let’s Go!

“Why won’t my life ever go my way?”
Yeah, I know I used to chant this all day
Yet despite all this, you stuck by me and never would
let me give up

Dragging me ahead to days you claimed would be fun
But optimism, well, I had none
Yet regardless, you
couldn’t seem to smile at me enough

Below a sky, blue in the light
I know you really did not want to leave me be
Wiping the tears away from my eyes
This coward can’t thank you enough. You wouldn’t leave,
Staying so close by my side

Because you’re you, you dragged me to tomorrow
Away from pain I wouldn’t let go
No matter how hopeless life would get,
It’s like your innocence of youth had never, ever left

Leave behind the “Yeah, I guess I’ll
Go along with anything” Well, Hey!
Now let us go together
Destroying feelings that trap us inside our past


The same old song: dunno what’s going on
And holding back the tears yet again
What a sorry sight that this child used to be
So blind to futures unseen

But you told me just to fight anyway
Keep fighting for everybody’s sake
Dashing down the streets,
You dragged me down to memory lane

Below a sky, blue in the night
The setting sun locking away my memories
I tried to run away from the grief
It keeps on catching up to me, won’t let me leave,
I’ll stop running, I won’t hide!

Won’t fall to this painful and mocking small world
Bear my fangs, won’t stumble at all
Memories of family in my mind
Remind me that I’m not alone, we’ll pull through every night!

With the hollow words you gave me,
I will hear them all so gratefully.
Thank you for giving me strength!
Let’s go and make our dreams a full reality (reali-tae)


I made it because you are you
Telling me of all we can do
I promise to not lose hope again
We’ll keep on making dreams and see them to the end

Taking in the gorgeous moonlight
Face our fears, we know it’s all alright
Let us all shout through the night!
I’m going to give my all
I will not fall
Until I reach the future that you saw