I absolutely love the Chrono series, and just replayed Chrono Cross recently via the new “remaster”.

While playing, I had a piano intro idea for the song, “Burning Orphanage”, and decided to try working it into a full song. It eventually evolved into this, kind of a prog rock song with piano being the main driver, but there are electric guitar parts, organs, synths, mellotron choir, and rock drums. I also realized that I could smoothly transition into the song “Silent Light” from Chrono Trigger, so I incorporated that as the second, slower half.

The progression of the song is recounting Kid’s trauma of surviving Lynx’s attack on the orphanage (Burning Orphanage), but then feeling lost and alone after her escape (Silent Light) and eventually kind of finding peace but never forgetting.

The actual scene from the game is one of the most heart breaking and climactic events from the whole series, IMO, and I wanted to try giving it even a fraction of justice.

It’s currently still a work in progress, as I’m still looking for bits here and there to polish up. My goal is to submit this to OCRemix, so if you have a listen, let me know what you think!