Handbeat Clocktower ~ English Cover [The Story of Evil 7/12]

Hello wonderful people!
Welcome to the seventh part of my english covers of all twelve songs in the Story of Evil (Aku no Monogatari, 悪ノ物語). Please see below for links, release dates, and a brief plot explanation!
~The Complete Story of Evil~
Daughter of Evil: • Daughter of Evil ~ Eng...
Servant of Evil: • Servant of Evil ~ Clas...
Regret Message: • Regret Message ~ Class...
Daughter of White: • Daughter of White ~ En...
Twiright Prank: • Twiright Prank ~ Engli...
Thousand Year Wiegenlied: • Thousand Year Wiegenli...
Handbeat Clocktower: You are here!
Blink: • Blink ~ English Cover ...
A Hero's Armor is Always Crimson: • A Hero's Armor is Alwa...
Neomaria of the Inverted Gravestone: • Neomaria of the Invert...
Swear an Oath on that Bridge: • Swear an Oath on that ...
That King was Born from Mud: • That King was Born fro...
~Extras~
Servant of Evil Ballad Edition: • Servant of Evil ~ Fema...
Regret Message Ballad Edition: • Regret Message ~ Engli...
Kept Waiting for a Response: • Kept Waiting for a Res...
Re_Birthday: Coming December 2nd!
To me, this song has the most difficult plot to follow in the entire series. It took me a few days of research to understand what was going on in order to transcribe my own lyrics. So, for anyone who was similarly confused, here's a brief (and very watered down) explanation of what is going on in this song:
- Prince Kyle realizes that his mother, Queen Prim, put him under a pride/lust spell (causing him to love Michaela instead of Rilliane) in hope of plunging the land into war
- He believes that the only way to protect the world from further harm is to kill his mother, who is currently at the top of a clocktower
- Yukina, the daughter of a historian/author accompanies him on his quest in order to record the events so that she can later publish a book that reveals how Prim was responsible for all the events in "The Story of Evil" 1-6
- Before Kyle reaches the top of the tower he is confronted by his not particularly sane sister, Ney, who tries to assassinate him for killing their mother, Prim
- Through a combination of Michaela's protection and help from Yukina, Kyle manages to fend off Ney, only to reach the top of the tower and discover his mother's corpse
- Ney killed Prim herself in a fit of rage and then convinced herself that it was Kyle's doing
Song: Handbeat Clocktower (針音ノ時計塔, Shin'on no Tokeitou)
Vocalist: Cathryn Archer
Composer: Mothy (Akuno - P)
Translation: Cathryn Archer
~Lyrics~
Your laughter from high above, where you sit on high
Rings out from atop the clock tower
How could I not recognize the demon within my own mother?
The clock hands move
relentlessly
The ticking sounds
Will always haunt me
I don’t know
What I’ll find
Atop spiraling stairs
A poison or justice
But I must proceed
Knowing who I’ll meet
And with every step
Echo’s this heartbeat
You forced me
to play this part
Now war and loss
Are engraved into my heart
Your hands run red with the blood of a nation
Vanity gave way to a deadly ambition
Is there’s no one left who could stop you now but me?
When I was young
I drew a girl
Just a portrait of
How I saw the world
But you never
would allow me
Your perfect heir
To live my life freely
I became your pawn
Caught in your web
Your evil lies
Infecting my own self
Corrupting all
the memories we share
until we became
your seven nightmares
However, what has been, though we cannot take it back
It can still be put to right
The story of evil, with all it’s pain and lies
Will at last be put to rest tonight
I cannot hesitate anymore
Even if you bear the face of who I once adored
Even if it means that I must turn my blade to you.
The laughter from high above, drawing nearer now
Rings out from atop the clock tower
How could I not recognize the demon within my own mother?
Somebody, anybody, were there anyone left to ask
I’d ask them "What is evil”
Before I don this mask
I have only
one hope left
That when this madness ends
I’ll be free from
The despair and consequence
Although it feels like it’s all to little all too late
We must keep steady along the path
We must pray that this ceaceless rain will come to an end
And sunlight will grace our fate
Above the roar of the gears, the mad woman's laughter envelopes us before she appears
But is the laughter her's alone, or the heart of the clocktower
On the glorious day that all this suffering ends
We’ll ensure its not the lies that win
The true story we will write, and bring to light by our hands
Ru Ri Rah Rah Rah
I cannot hesitate anymore
Even if you bear the face of who I once adored
Even when it meant that I must turn my blade toward you.
Laughter from high above, ever here
Echos from the corpse in the clock tower
Now I recognize the demon that was my own mother

[@Randomly_cringe]

Germaine was the red swordwoman who wanted Rilliane dead because she got her adoptive father, Leonarth, killed.

[@camelandbunny4772]

It was Germaine who helped Kyle in the Clocktower not Yukina, because Kyle and Germaine said Yukina was too young to go with the army to the castle, and also Kyle was there when Ney stabbed Prim, Kyle didn't really want to kill Prim he was just looking for her to ask her why she sent him a mirror with a demon in it then Ney came and when Prim ignored her and kept talking to Kyle Ney got angry and stabbed her before turning on Kyle

[@CJCroen1393]

I can't believe I didn't notice it before, but...

[@SwordlordRoy]

This song, more than any others in the Story of Evil sub-series, kind of make it clear that this is not entirely a self-contained story.

[@whitelily6658]

Prim Marlon can go and dissolve into nothing I wouldn’t care for her after all she’s done

[@TiaraPotato]

I came cuz I didn't know that Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil, and Regret Message had other songs and stories with the other characters. Thanks for making the whole thing! But I am confused, did Mothy make the songs based on a novel? And how come other known people on KZbin that does other Vocaloid covers only did covers for Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil and Regret Message only? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even know the other songs existed! I wouldn't even know it was based on a novel becuz of the comments ;-;

[@theTheoryofEvil]

It’s very late, but would you happen to have the lyrics of this song? This is by far my favorite cover of Handbeat Clocktower, so thank you so much for singing this masterpiece

[@Dressup_Doll]

I think the funniest part in this novel is that, if Prim had paid attention to Ney, she wouldn’t have died. Ney wanted her mother to pay attention to her, so when she got none, she killed then.

[@littlegraspe]

So...

[@saladcaesar7716]

I like your cover ¡ 💕

[@saltyp1geon877]

this is probably the wrong song to mention this on but someone said on a french cover (i dont remember which one) Allen was also possesed by the pride demon this pride is called vaine glory but theres more info on it on the post on that song

[@saintlugia]

What's the story I've seen all the other parts but I'm totally lost

[@meganhoult2690]

All im getting is there is no stable support for any of them the adults seems to be at fault...

[@3mma_2020]

Someone explain this story to me cuz I thought I had it but now I'm all confused

[@micah7177]

I still want to slap Kyle....