Want To Be Close

"Want To Be Close" is a song from Persona 3 which plays when the protagonist is in school during the first semester. It was composed and arranged by Shoji Meguro with lyrics by Reiko Tanaka, and is sung by Yumi Kawamura. It was released on the Persona 3 Original Soundtrack with a longer version featured on Burn My Dread: Reincarnation: Persona 3.

An arrangement by Atsushi Kitajo called "Want To Be Close -Reload-" is a song from Persona 3 Reload performed by Azumi Takahashi.

According to composer Shoji Meguro, this song was designed to give positive feelings when going to school in the morning, and the second part loops to avoid annoying players who spend a long time at the school.^[1]

Lyrics

Original

The lyrics were included in the Persona 3 Original Soundtrack booklet and the Persona 3 Reload Original Soundtrack booklet.

In the light men're crossing over lone shadows Wearing veiled slight hopes for intimacy Want to be close To be close

Reincarnation version

The lyrics were included in the Burn My Dread: Reincarnation: Persona 3 booklet.

In the light men're crossing over lone shadows Wearing veiled slight hopes for intimacy Talking how they've seen the blue saints Above cold ground wondering if light flows In the light men're crossing over dried river Without hope for water to stay long They all feel thirst looking over dried river Now that only seeks for intimacy Want to be close To be close ※ At the last moment their souls sing Along haunting voice of lone shadows Hoping they could search for lost minds Will they come through intimacy ※REPEAT Want to be close To be close

Videos

"Want To Be Close" on YouTube Music

"Want To Be Close -⁠Reload⁠-" on YouTube Music

"Want To Be Close (ATOLS Remix)" on YouTube Music

References

↑ "学校の1学期の曲。ペルソナ3のシナリオは結構暗いところも多いのですがせめて朝学校に行く時くらいはポジティブに感じられるような曲を、という気持ちで作った曲です。校内で長く滞在している時にウザく感じさせないようにしつつ曲のブツ切りを避けたかった理由から後半部分の抑えめになった所をずっとループさせてます。" Persona 3 Original Soundtrack (2006). Published by Aniplex. Japanese. p. 4.

[1] "学校の1学期の曲。ペルソナ3のシナリオは結構暗いところも多いのですがせめて朝学校に行く時くらいはポジティブに感じられるような曲を、という気持ちで作った曲です。校内で長く滞在している時にウザく感じさせないようにしつつ曲のブツ切りを避けたかった理由から後半部分の抑えめになった所をずっとループさせてます。" Persona 3 Original Soundtrack (2006). Published by Aniplex. Japanese. p. 4.

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