I love you, Divey.

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I'm pretty sure that the only time I haven't been listening to this album is when I've been asleep. And even then, my dreams have been Megaman related. But, I had kind of a realization while listening to Continue and why I find the lyrics particularly powerful. It's standard Hero storytelling, and that's why it works so well. Forgive me if I'm looking way too deep into it.

"If it was up to you and you
You know that you would lose
If it was up to you I know
You'd always choose to continue"

I'm listening to it and comprehending it as "If it was up to you and you know that you would lose, you'd always choose to continue"

Sounds a lot like one of my favorite lines from Lord of the Rings (relevant line in bold):

"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for".

Now, on a side note if those lines are read that way, which is now how I'm thinking they're intended to be read, I'm not really thinking it could be Wily singing to Mega.

The line

"The fear was only momentary
But you're always never temporary you know
This was never meant to end"

almost completely contradicts Wily's thoughts on the war when he sings these lines during Gamma Unchained:

"This war has gone on much longer,
than, any of us, would have guessed"

I don't know if anyone else was really considering it being Wily singing the song, but I definitely don't believe it's him based on this.


Also,

Is Proto only singing the one line from History repeating pt 2? I thought he was singing the whole of Pt 2.

I just noticed something.
In "(I want to be the one) to watch you die", Light says:


While, in "Look what have you done", Wily says:


Wily actually DID write himself into a corner there =P

That's actually the ending text from Megaman 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWLcB8KybU

I know, exactly my point.

Lyrics page added thanks to the success of our reddit post... I'll add the older albums later, but for now...

http://www.themegas.com/lyrics

Thanks, Greg! Guess that puts to rest what parts of History Repeating are sung by Proto

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Way far back, but the choruses actually use (essentially) the same chord progression in the same key. You can transition back and forth between the two songs freely because of this, a la VGL performance.

Also, lyrics page says:
g:\GAMMA>\sys/activation
g:\>[peacekeeping]/calculation…
g:\>…[solution\extermination]

For the breakdown.

Thanks Greg! The army thanks you and loves you!

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"I want to be the one to fight against you, Dr. Wily~

Hey Greg, I think you guys have enough songs now to warrent putting anchors on each song and a list at the top, for ease of navigation!

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Not that I disagree with you, but I find ctrl+f+(lyric) is the king of easy navigation.