Your Reality

"Your Reality"
"Your Reality" from Doki Doki Literature Club!
Composed by: Dan Salvato
Key	C major
BPM	103
First appearance	Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017)
Latest appearance	Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! (2021)

“Um, so you know how I've been, like...practicing piano? And stuff? And-I'm not really any good at it. Like, at all. But, I wrote you a song... And I was kinda hoping that I could show it to you. 'Cause I worked...really hard on it. So, yeah!”

—Monika, Doki Doki Literature Club!

"Your Reality" (also known as "Your Reality (Credits)") is a song that plays at the end of Doki Doki Literature Club!. The song is a rendition of the game's central theme, played on a piano with vocals by Jillian Ashcraft. In-universe, it is written by Monika and is about how much she loves the player. The song is alluded to earlier, with Monika mentioning how she has been practicing piano. Notably, the lyrics regarding the pen and the ink are also alluded to earlier in one of Monika's Writing Tips of the Day. It appears at the end of the game when Monika intervenes and starts playing her piano and singing the lyrics. The song once again reprises its role during Doki Doki Literature Club!'s remake, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!.

While not included in the original game, a cover of "Your Reality" known as "Poems are Forever" is included on Team Salvato's YouTube channel, composed by Shoji. It is an upbeat techno track and features the first two lyrics of the original song, as well as Monika's lines from the ending, such as "Can you hear me?" and "So...yeah!"

Composition

"Your Reality" is a piano rendition of the central theme from Doki Doki Literature Club!. While mainly played on a piano, it uses a guitar after the first verse. A mandolin also plays halfway through alongside a ukulele.

Lyrics

Every day, I imagine a future where I can be with you
In my hand is a pen that will write a poem of me and you
The ink flows down into a dark puddle
Just move your hand, write the way into his heart
But in this world of infinite choices
What will it take just to find that special day?
What will it take just to find that special day?

Have I found everybody a fun assignment to do today?
When you're here, everything that we do is fun for them anyway
When I can't even read my own feelings
What good are words when a smile says it all?
And if this world won't write me an ending
What will it take just for me to have it all?

Does my pen only write bitter words for those who are dear to me?
Is it love if I take you, or is it love if I set you free?
The ink flows down into a dark puddle
How can I write love into reality?
If I can't hear the sound of your heartbeat
What do you call love in your reality?
And in your reality, if I don't know how to love you
I'll leave you be

List of Doki Doki Literature Club! appearances

Games

Game	Year	Type	Title	Credits
Doki Doki Literature Club!	2017	Original	"Your Reality (Credits)"	Dan Salvato (composer), Jillian Ashcraft (singer)
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!	2021	Past arrangement	"Your Reality"

Albums

Album	Year	Type	Title	Credits
DDLC Fan Pack	2017	Original	"Your Reality"	Dan Salvato (composer), Jillian Ashcraft (singer)
		Arrangement	"Poems are Forever"	shoji
		Past arrangement	"Your Reality" (no vocals)	Dan Salvato