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even if it's super well-known, even if you think it's a bad game, even non-rhythm games where the music is important (a la hi-fi rush or no straight roads)

----- LIES OF P / OVERTURE SPOILERS AHEAD -----

Reasons that I have to believe Someday talks about Carmeo and is most likely associated with Romeo. (Or me summarizing my findings after falling into the rabbit hole of the records on Lies of P and how they come from another game by Neowiz called djmaxx so no song was written specifically for this game but they still fit perfectly) 👀

How the record is obtained:

Unlike all the other records in the game this is obtained via the MVP merchant in Malum District. This removes the direct association of record <-—-> character (and their situation) that we get from all the other records. 

We can at least get the idea from the location that it should be related to someone that was present at the Malum District at some point.

Of course it can be about anyone  like the merchant himself, but if they chose such a sentimental song with impactful lyrics, I think it would be better suited for a character with a bit more backstory than a merchant.

Could also be tied to any member of the black rabbit brotherhood, but because of the lyrics and video discussed in a bullet below I don’t think that’s the case.

Even the Cat and Fox could be discarded because I am seeing how Quixotic is tied to the Fox and her desire to continue fighting for her and her brother.

This song is performed by a man: 

The translations/adaptations for each song from djmax to Lies of P were done with a lot of care. Some songs were left without voice/lyrics for LoP where the theme or the tune would be more significant to the character it was meant to represent, and for ‘Someday’ they purposefully changed the singer to be man despite the original one being performed by a female singer. 

The only other song in the base game with a male voice is Wolf, Flower, Proposal Part 1 (Now SURVIVOR regular is part of this group too), and that is very clearly meant to be tied to the real Alidoro by Eugenie.

But in contrast to Someday, Wolf, Flower, Proposal Part 1 was performed in both games by male singer. So if they changed the Someday singer, that probably means it represents the experience from one of the male characters. And who should that character be if I already discarded the merchant, the Cat, and the BRB brothers? Which other characters that are somehow related to Malum District are we left with? We'll get the answer in the next section.

Collectibles/Lore from Mallum District: 

What piece of Lore / picture collectible do we find in the Malum District, right in the Red Lobster? 

In the couch under where the merchant is selling the record, we find nothing less than The Monad Charity House Guide. Most of the text is just to give us a bit more of Lore regarding the Rose Estate, but at the end of it we can see a piece of dialogue between Romeo and Carlo. 

“You look like a donkey in this picture”

“Stop doodling in my picture, Romeo”

We find other collectibles talking about the Monad Charity House in other zones of the game, like the Lorenzini Arcade, but the difference with those it that this guide has dialogue from our pair in it, meaning that Carlo and Romeo must have come in contact with this piece of paper. And that they were probably in the Red Lobster when Romeo doodled with his picture. 

There’s also the scribbling in the painting in the wall in front of the Merchant. 

“I, Romeo, will become the greatest Stalker in all of Krat!”

“Then I’ll become stronger that Romeo and become the greatest Stalker in all the world!”

Of course, both the painting and the Guide could have just reached the Red Lobster without Carlo and Romeo stepping at all in MD, but the fact that the devs decided to show two pieces of interaction between these two right in this place where you obtain this record is very telling.

The video for the original song:

Link to the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzWea3Yh8s 

The video shows us the story about a girl and her boyfriend/romantic interest/SO and how she waits for him for a very long time him when he has to go away for military service. We see time going by and she going to the same train spot to see him. But even when she does see him, they don’t get to be together again, maybe because he just imagined it, maybe because he couldn’t be back with her. 

So what we get from this animation is that someone is experiencing loss, separation, and can’t wait for the day in they get to meet with that other person, even when the circumstances constantly keep them apart.

And lastly the lyrics.

I won’t analyze everything, I just want to emphasize a couple lines. (There a comment with an amazing translation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPrjpijw5o)

“The snowflakes shining white in the night sky comfort me as I wait for you alone in the dark.” Back when we only had the base game this was not really clear, and I saw it more as a metaphor, but now that we have the DLC, what is the first thing that we see in the game? Snow. And we know from in-game info that snow in Krat is not common at all and that this only occurred recently. So who could be waiting alone in the snow after someone dear to him was gone? That’s right, Romeo. This is right when the DLC told me, this is not about Carlo, it’s about Romeo longing for Carlo.

The singer mentions repeatedly that he will wait for this someone even if his heart aches.

There’s also a line that says, “Time to meet you now”, and this might just be a more far fetched speculation, but maybe it ties to the moment Romeo was dying. There was snow the day that happened. He was kept in under the night sky by Arlecchino, so I think the snowflakes falling were bringing him comfort as he remembered Carlo and thought he would finally meet him again.

In general I feel the song has a very romantic tone. Of course it could be interpreted as just someone very close, but c’mon: “Listen my heart, I will wait for you.” Like my heart? Romeo was down bad for Carlo.

But even if you do not buy into the Carmeo agenda, Romeo loved Carlo incredibly much and suffered a lot with his death