Everything You Ever Dreamed

OK, so I read that this track was recorded with KST with a view to putting one of them in the Instrumentality sequence and KST was chosen.

Now, was the animation and so on completed at this stage? I asked because ive tried matching up the other track with EoE:
http://tinyurl.com/9pkc2cl

It knida works in a 'Dark Side of OZ' way, but also kinda doesnt

Note that the track is a couple of minutes shorter than KST so im wondering at what stage the latetr was chosen and what stage the storyboard/animation/whatever was at.

The style is definitely there, but I agree that it doesn't match up very well with the visuals.

I've heard both, yeah. EYED being the other possible Instrumentality sequence was mentioned in the Refrain of Evangelion booklet.

With EYED being a possible Movie 26' ending credits sequence, that's speculation from here on the wiki.

Since we're on the topic of this beautiful song (despite the fucked up lyrics/content, something about the song is lovely), I made my first (and only) AMV to it back in August 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doOOxG6Ezc Unfortunately the AMV wasn't exactly in synch with the lyrics, something got screwy in the editing stage IIRC.

Somehow I keep forgetting about this song. So amazing.

For some reason the intro always puts me in mind of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHdYngIDuY
or indeed this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHfsz9YTTPo

This is still one of my favorite songs to wake up to in the morning, so beautiful yet so dark.

I've heard the song before, but this was my time really really listening to it, and holy crap is it beautiful. The lyrics only make it better. It's easy to imagine myself singing it as a genuine love song, with a smile on my face and my eyes closed in reverie, and the juxtaposition between that image and the lyrics adds such a, shall we say, kink to it.

...The Japanese lyrics are very, very different. Almost too obviously relating to the show, even. I like how the song ends:

EYED, Japanese, Translated wrote:

Death will not become my redemption. For the sake of my redemption, I live. CHORUS: You go on living, but you don't care. CHORUS: Selfishly, you go on living, but you don't care. But how do you intend to make up for everything? ...I don't understand.

I never really thought of Shinji as someone in need of redemption -- just healing. The thought really never even occurred to me.

The literal note for me is that 'EYED' was originally an option to be in-place of 'Komm, Süsser Tod', and the first initial lyrics really hit home as Third Impact begins. You know, the "What was it she did to break your heart" part. That's what makes it feel very literal for me.

Edit: Ahh, looks like you added more to your post. Yeah, the English version is more relevant in taking place right after the scene in P3II.

After listening closely to the lyrics for the first time, as Monk Ed just did, I found myself wishing that Gainax would release an alternate cut of the Instrumentality sequence, featuring EYED instead of "Komm Susser Tod." An extra feature on the "20th Anniversary Edition" of End of Evangelion, perhaps?

I have no idea how Mashed Potatoes (or whatever their name was) got the mid-credits song instead of this. Seems like a no-brainer. Plus, EYED has the virtue of being sorta kinda like NGE's "Fly Me To The Moon" (in a good way).

According to SSD's link to the wiki, this might've been played over a final credits sequence that panned through the sun, Earth, moon, and stars. But I would like to see a post-EoEoE credits sequence comprised of different shots of Shinji and Asuka just sitting around the post-3I beach, like on the EoE DVD cover, with this song playing.

I was so amazed to find this on YouTube so many months ago. That something so beautiful could be so hidden away. When I first listened to it, I looked out my window at the lake on a clear, starry night. And it took me to that post-3I beach.