"Your Best Nightmare" and "His Theme" leitmotifs

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  • I'm fairly confident that "12am" uses the leitmotif of "Your Best Nightmare" throughout, and in "GUARDIAN", although incredibly faint, the church bells in the background are playing "His Theme".
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Do you have timestamps?

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  • 12am is just through the whole thing, GUARDIAN is around 1:12
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I can hear them! (not sure, though)

I hear that “12am” follows the same interval structure as the intro of “Your Best Nightmare” (0:00–0:15) all the time (0:00 - 0:38, which is the whole track), but with a different rhythm and consecutive notes at the beginning of the melody.

I can hear it when I'm paying attention, but not when listening casually. That’s a red flag to me, but I’d leave it to someone else's judgment.

I can also hear 'His Theme' a lot in 'GUARDIAN'. It also has a very different rhythm but still sounds a lot like it to me.

One part playing on:
0:27 - 0:54
1:11 - 1:25 (on the background)
1:53 - 2:20
2:37 - 2:50 (on the background)

Another one on:
0:13 - 0:27
0:58 - 1:25
1:39 - 1:53 (modulated)
2:24 - 2:50 then modulated and continued 2:50 - 3:18.

The big problem I see with “His Theme” being on “GUARDIAN” is that it never ends the melody the same way “His Theme” does. Instead of resolving, it keeps building tension.

I think that’s all (we could totally be imagining things).

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