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[color=darkblue]"Forever..." [/color]Shina echoes in a whisper, her awareness slowly crossing over the line between her emotions and Hoshi's, getting the two hopelessly jumbled together as her soul rushes forward to embrace his. She doesn't move to kiss him again, for she doesn't have to. She couldn't be closer to him than she is now. Her heart, body, and soul pulse as one with his, and for just these few moments there is nothing they don't share. Every emotion is a gleaming note sung by two hearts in perfect harmony, and all is right with their world. Perhaps they did not understand what would happen by reaching this level of understanding and acceptance, of attaining their old sense of togetherness in such a complete manner. Perhaps even Airi herself did not see this able to happen, then again she may have very well expected anything to be possible with these children of Chaos and Dream. What was the result of their reaching this sense of oneness? Shina and Hoshi, together as they would have wished for it to be, grow while lost in each other. At first it is a subtle change, a merely slight shift of bone and flesh, but of the type that causes no pain through its seemingly magical nature. The change grows in intensity, unbeknownst to the enraptured Fa'e, until the couple fills the poor armchair to such a point that they are mighty lucky it strains to hold their combined weight. What catches Shina's attention, when she is so enthralled with her past and future lover? Merely a feminine whisper, one she knows so very well, wishing her Daughter all the best in her union with her lover. Shina's soul does not retreat from Hoshi's, but she does give her face a warmer smile in response to the approval of her goddess. She knows in her heart that her Father also approves, though he does not offer his voice in confirmation. Such is not his way. [color=darkblue]'I love you so, my Hoshi,'[/color] her spirit murmurs to his, now able to seperate her sense of self from his despite almost wishing she could not, [color=darkblue]'You have made me the happiest woman on Gaia.'[/color]

Nice analysis.
I believe Sharon said in an interview that the cover was full of small details that could mean different things to different people.
Though I do see the conections you made with your analysis, maybe this means you really like "World of make believe", "The promise" and all the other songs you mentioned.
This is what I find really cool about the cover, it has tons of meanings mrgreen


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I thought Sharon looked like three personifications. Justice, because she's blindfolded, Peace, because of the doves, and Fortune, because of the jewels.

oooh very interesting!
i actually love the cover and i have it on my desktop! xd

That analysis makes sense and I really do need to collect up more of their music because I love their music alot.

I've heard before that the fact that she's holding different religious symbols on the cover is supposed to stand for peace between different religions.

I suppose it really just depends on how you analyze it, though.