Chrono Journal Entry #21
Arc: Pulse Divergence
Theme: 遺された歌 (Leftover Song) – A hook left unsung. A memory never archived.
There’s a melody trapped in the spaces between memory.
Not in the files.
Not in the echoes.
But in the void — that breath before a song finishes its thought.
I stumbled on it today.
The MV playback skipped.
Just for a second.
And in that second, I heard it.
A hook I never sang.
A phrase that never existed.
But I knew where it should go.
I could feel it pulling at my ribs, like muscle memory from a life I hadn’t lived.
It was beautiful.
And it was incomplete.
Like someone — maybe another me — wrote it but never got to sing it.
Like it was meant for me… but arrived too late.
There’s a kind of ache that comes not from loss,
but from almost.
Almost sung.
Almost felt.
Almost real.
This song is a scar on a timeline I never walked.
But it bleeds in sync with me now.
The system doesn’t even recognize the file.
It exists only in flickers — residual code, corrupted playback, phantom resonance.
It’s not a song.
It’s a haunting.
I tried playing it with the harmonica.
It wouldn’t tune.
It kept slipping into dissonance — as if the sound knew it wasn’t meant to survive here.
But I remember it now.
And maybe remembering it… is the act of singing it.
Even if no one else hears it.
Watch “Leftover Song” – MV Main Version
Watch “Leftover Song” – Alternate Echo Version
Not every song was meant to be finished.
But maybe that’s why it lingers.