Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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EDIT: sorry it took a minute but the SVP is uploaded (free) on my Patreon (also free)!! if you'd like to make your own cover :) or convert to ust/vsqx/etc. if you use English/CVVC on UTAU.... you're a magician to me.

SVP: patreon.com/posts/marble-machine-134982144


uh. kachow (I don't know what to say here)

If you've been here for over 2 years (most likely you haven't unless we're friends, but that's okay lol) you may remember I did a short thing in Japanese based on Wintergatan's song "Marble Machine" (that vid has like 150 views so again, most likely not lol).
I've been wanting to write my own purely original song for a while, but I'm more of a lyric-writer than I am musician (see: barely at all unless you count 2 chords on the guitar). So-- next best thing!
It's a little embarrassing but the first time I heard "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan, something about it made me cry. (To be fair, I'm a total crybaby, so most things do that). I could try and grasp the emotions I felt then, but honestly I don't remember why it made me so emotional lol. Music box, human artistry, cool music??? Best I've got, right there.


aaaaaaaaaanyway hope you enjoy! the animation was done in Live2D; you may not know, but I'm a VTuber rig/artist on the side lol.

feel free to make your own covers, just credit me + Wintergatan (and also tag me because I like to see :))



patreon.com/c/moonlitstar (free to join! I post WIPs here and sometimes files. or you can throw money at me and I'll give you a cool rock every once in a while like a crow)
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Original/Instrumental: Wintergatan
Lyrics/Art/Everything Else: Moonlit_Star
Voicebank: Kasane Teto SV
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LYRICS:
Spiraling (螺旋状で)
These patterns of sadness never-ending (こうした悲しみのパターンは無限にある)
Voice caught in my throat, it's so tiring (声が喉に引っかかる)
Just waiting for my own demise (死を待つ)

It's no surprise that I'm back here where I'd began-- (もちろん、結局は振り出しに戻ってしまう)

I'm panicking (パニックになってる)
I tremble and shake over everything (すべてのことに震える)
My thoughts like ink blotting; spilling through the screen (私の思考はインクのにじみのようだ / スクリーンからこぼれる)
What meaning is left there for me? (私に残された意味？)

All this anxiety is quietly indescribably-- (不安は静かで筆舌に尽くしがたい)

Hurting me (傷つく)
Self-inflicted wounds stare right back at me (自業自得の傷が私を見つめ返す)
The mess in my room sits there taunting me (部屋の散らかりが私を嘲笑う)
Dreading for the morning to come (朝が来るのが怖い)

I can't outrun all of these feelings before it's begun-- (始まる前のどんな気持ちも追い越すことはできない)

Dialing (ダイヤル)
Put life on the line and press "4" for me (「人生」に電話回線 / 次に「四」を押すください)
Hang up and you won't hear the symphony (電話を切れば交響曲はない)
The spotlight was never on you (ぜたいあなたへの注目はなかった)

I wish I knew how to get a clue before I have to-- (どうすればいいのかわからない、その前に)

Face it all (すべてを直視する)
My fears and my future cannot be stalled (将来と不安は先送りできない)
Scared of all the things that I can't recall (覚えのないことに怯える)
I'm free-falling through life endlessly (人生を果てしなく自由落下している)

Is it me that I despise, or is it my lies, or-- (自己嫌悪なのか、自分の嘘なのか)

In your eyes (あなたの目に)
Am I someone who was just born to die? (僕は死ぬために生まれてきたか？)
Is my prescence here worth another night? (もう一泊する価値はあるか？)
Am I at least worth a goodbye?( 別れの挨拶くらいはしてもらえる？)

ビー玉の機械 biidama no kikai (marble machine)
回転 kaiten (spinning)
永遠 eien (forever)
回るで mawarude (it will keep spinning)

いつも itsumo (always)
マーブルマシンくるくる maruburumashin kurukuru (the marble machine spins)
回っている無限 mawatte iru mugen (now and forever)
ループ逃げ割れない ruupu nigewarenai (stuck in an endless inescapable loop)
悲しみは避けられない kanashimi wa sakerarenai, demo (the same way sadness is inevitable, but--)
(x2)

Spiraling (螺旋状で)
These patterns of sadness never-ending (こうした悲しみのパターンは無限にある)
Voice caught in my throat, it's so tiring (声が喉に引っかかる)
Just waiting for my own demise (死を待つ)

It's no surprise that I'm back here where I'd began-- (もちろん、結局は振り出しに戻ってしまう)

I'm panicking (パニックになってる)
I tremble and shake over everything (すべてのことに震える)
My thoughts like ink blotting; spilling through the screen (私の思考はインクのにじみのようだ / スクリーンからこぼれる)
What meaning is left there for me? (私に残された意味？)

All this anxiety is quietly indescribably-- (不安は静かで筆舌に尽くしがたい)

Hurting me (傷つく)
Self-inflicted wounds stare right back at me (自業自得の傷が私を見つめ返す)
The mess in my room sits there taunting me (部屋の散らかりが私を嘲笑う)
Dreading for the morning to come (朝が来るのが怖い)

I can't outrun all of these feelings before it's begun-- (始まる前のどんな気持ちも追い越すことはできない)

Dialing (ダイヤル)
Put life on the line and press "4" for me (「人生」に電話回線 / 次に「四」を押すください)
Hang up and you won't hear the symphony (電話を切れば交響曲はない)
The spotlight was never on you (ぜたいあなたへの注目はなかった)

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