72_72291Neil had planned to record his impressions and then play them back to find some inspiration, but after humming two syllables, Neil realized that although he pressed the record button, no one else was in the recording room, and his voice could not be recorded at all—it should be Hugo's voice.

Neil couldn't help but laugh dumbly, after spending a long time in the practice room, his mind would always be confused. Neil pressed the red button at hand, ready to tell Hugo about his mistake just now, but the words reached his throat, but they stopped like this, and the whole person fell silent.

He didn't hear the beginning of the song, just started listening to it from the middle of a syllable, but he couldn't help but be attracted by the clear and transparent melody, like the ding dong sound of a melting glacier, the crystal clear water droplets slowly flowing along the white and flawless snow-capped mountains, under the reflection of the sun, substituting the breath of spring into the whole world.

Neil had never heard the song, literally, "never", and he and Fokine had been studying songwriting before, and they had gone through the music drafts at Hugo's house - Hugo was also self-taught from a non-academic background. But among the hundreds of drafts of the original song in Hugo's house, Neil never heard the song.

Originally, Neil thought that Hugo had just been inspired and created temporarily, but he saw a deep nostalgia in Hugo's eyes, looming under the milky yellow halo, but making the melody more light and moving. Neil couldn't help but speculate that maybe this was Hugo's previous creation, and today it is just being perfected.

Hugo's slender fingertips danced gently on the strings, and the golden notes danced like elves, and the melody was even simpler than "sail", almost only three chords, and compared to "sail", the song was not arranged at all, it was just the original song played with a guitar, but the whole melody was so complete that it seemed superfluous to add any other instruments or arrangements. The melody that is so simple that it blooms with a beautiful and moving charm between Hugo's shallow singing and low singing.

This reminded Neil of the first time he and Hugo met, the song "home". It's just that the song in front of me is even simpler than "home", and the love is even stronger.

Through the thick glass window, Neil saw love surging in Hugo's hazy amber eyes, and the handsome face under the shadow projection was a little lonely and a little throbbing, just like a lilac blooming quietly in March, so wonderful that people couldn't help but stop breathing, and the lyrics that revealed a strong breath of life were like poetry, and in Hugo's humming without any embellishment, Neil was easily moved.

"Whenever I want to tell you and my feelings, heaven whispers, the rain is majestic, the sky is dark, no one can defeat; I wanted to speak, but I couldn't, my soul froze, and every time I wanted to tell you how I felt, it did. ”

Neil sat quietly in place, as if Hugo was the only one in the world singing, and the sincere and simple emotions gently surged in the melody. Hugo was so familiar and so unfamiliar, he was as fragile as if he would fall apart when a gust of wind blew, but the rich emotions were surging in the melody like a tsunami, and every word hit the eardrums like a hammer, making Neil's eyes heat slightly.

"Because I fell...... Deeply in love and in love with ......"

The gently dragging tail note is like a meteor across the night sky, the long tail slowly dissipates in the thick night, gentle and long, bright but not dazzling, but even if it is completely extinguished, the curtain-like sky can still feel the deep imprint, not visible does not mean disappearing, but really imprinted in the mind, memory, soul, the bright and dazzling light stung the softest part of the heart.

Neil only felt as if he was really falling, slowly sinking in Hugo's song, falling from a high altitude, the wind surging in all directions, but his brain became clearer and clearer, feeling the process of his fall, feeling the abyss that never had a bottom, but the darkness in his vision was not terrible at all, and the brightness hidden in the black made the world extremely gentle.

Perhaps, this is the true meaning of falling in love.

Neil carefully looked for clues on Hugo's cheeks, because the rich emotion of this song was so vivid that there was no need to ask, the sweet but sour emotion was jumping on the tip of his tongue, and a bright blur under Hugo's slender eyelashes projected a lingering affection, which made Neil couldn't help but be moved.

Neil wanted to open his mouth to ask who was the inspiration for Hugo's song, but the idea had just popped into his mind, so he pressed it, and sat quietly in his chair, looking at Hugo, who had gradually fallen silent—the bright temperament around him was like stars obscured by the sun, fainter and fainter, and finally disappeared into the milky yellow halo, as if the whole person had disappeared.

After the song was played, Hugo's fingertips were still on the strings, and he could even feel the vibrations from the slightly trembling strings, vibrating gently on the skin of his fingertips, and his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly, which made Hugo move his fingertips away in a little panic, quickly retracted, and his eyelids quickly drooped, covering the intricacies and surges that stretched out under his eyes.

Hugo pursed his lower lip slightly, and couldn't help but be a little distracted: why did he think of playing this song just now? At that moment just now, the melody in his head flowed from his fingertips, and even he himself was not able to control it, nor could he have expected it, as if this melody had never disappeared from the bottom of his heart.

Hugo sat stunned like this, his mind was blank, his whole body was completely empty, holding his guitar and thinking quietly, but in fact, he didn't know what he was thinking at all, and a bunch of chaotic thoughts couldn't find a clear outline. "Anonymous (no. name)" still echoes in my head.

Hugo never intended to publish the "anonymous", he did not even record the score of the song, and no one but him had ever heard the song and no one knew about it. Because Hugo only wants to bury this song in his heart, and it is better to never call it again. However, today Hugo knows that he has not forgotten the song jì, he has never forgotten jì, every note is so familiar and clear, and the golden notes are still dancing on the tip of his heart, but Hugo's heart is trembling.

Lowering his eyes, Hugo fell silent, letting the noise and noise in his mind slowly disappear, leaving only the clear sound of his heartbeat pounding on his eardrums.

Neil wanted to open his mouth to communicate with Hugo about this song, but he saw Hugo's face distracted, as if his soul had roamed in outer space, and the words that came to his mouth were still swallowed. Neil looked at the finished recording track, then looked up at Hugo, who was still in a daze, and finally saved it casually and put it in the corner, without planning to make it public.

Not only because Neil knew that the ten songs on the new album of Honor and Death had already been formulated, and that the outdoor studio version had also been recorded, there was no need to add new songs at all; And Neil can feel that this song is too private, he can hear the voice of Hugo himself in every note and every lyric, as if his soul is singing in a low voice, such a song should not be released to the public, just as Hugo's own little secret.

Neil lowered his head, turned off the audio link between the studio and the outside, and left the entire confined space to Hugo alone, as if he had never heard this song, and he had never witnessed the scene just now, and that song was still the most precious secret in Hugo's heart.

Hugo fell silent, and collected his chaotic thoughts little by little, and the melody in his mind had disappeared, as if the little episode had never happened. When Hugo came back to his senses, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then let out a long breath, as if he wanted to spit out all the irritability and dullness in his heart, and when he was done, his whole shoulders drooped, revealing endless tiredness.

Life never stops, time is still moving forward, everyone has the right to rest, but it can't stop forever, otherwise it will only be forgotten by the world.

Hugo exhaled until his entire lungs were emptied, and the feeling of suffocation hit him, making his face flush slightly, and his brow gently leaned towards the middle, but he was still stubbornly unwilling to breathe, and only when he felt that his ears had begun to roar, did he take a big breath of air.

The slightly hot indoor air made Hugo's brain, which had become cold due to lack of oxygen, boil in an instant, as if the whole person came to life in an instant. The feeling of exhilaration, Hugo involuntarily closed his eyes and gasped for breath in silence, and the noise of the world disappeared at this moment. A moment of tranquility allowed Hugo to finally feel truly at peace.

When he opened his eyes again, Hugo looked at the glass window, and Neil on the other side was looking down at the score, his right hand gently tapping the table and beating the beat, as if he had not heard his momentary astonishment and trance at all. But Hugo is not worried, even if Neil sees and hears it, he is not a gossip and mouthy personality, so it doesn't matter.

Hugo didn't open his mouth to call Neil, lowered his head and hugged his guitar, and began to pluck the strings again. Compared to real life, the world of music is so pure and simple, and at the same time, you can vent your emotions into it, which is also an important reason why music is moving.

Listening to the clear guitar strings, Hugo found peace like never before