Komm, süsser Tod (Arianne song)

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"Komm, süsser Tod" is a song composed and arranged by Shirō Sagisu, with English lyrics by Mike Wyzgowski and vocals performed by Arianne. Director Hideaki Anno wrote the original Japanese lyrics, which Wyzgowski adapted into English for the finished recording. The song was used during the Human Instrumentality scene in the animated film The End of Evangelion (1997), accompanying the apocalyptic sequence in which humanity merges into a single existence. Sagisu conceived its musical arrangement around a deliberate contrast between the song's upbeat sound and the sorrowful character of Anno's lyrics, combining piano, strings, guitar, and gospel vocals. Commentators have similarly noted the contrast between its cheerful sound and themes of guilt, self-loathing, interpersonal pain, and self-annihilation, interpreting the song in relation to the Freudian concept of Thanatos, or destrudo, and as a reflection of Shinji Ikari's psychological state during Human Instrumentality. King Records first...

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