Leviathan Lyrics Speculation

After finishing my animus I've been bored so I decided to try deciphering what they say in the Leviathan music since I can't find the lyrics anywhere.

Hoping some people here may have better ears than I because this is as far as I can get.
Edit: Updated with suggestions.

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Leviathan Leviathan (End us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Save us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Rumbles)
Leviathan Leviathan (Defends)

Leviathan Leviathan (Bless us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Takes us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Tend us)
Leviathan! (Help us)

Drifting! In a levee and I know we're*
Forsaken! She rams our hulls
No current! Without a set** awakened
My bloodlust; My name is Whorl!

Leviathan Leviathan (End us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Save us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Grind us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Tend us)

Leviathan Leviathan (Bless us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Takes us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Rend us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Blend us)

Leviathan Leviathan (Rages)
Leviathan Leviathan (Take us)
Leviathan Leviathan (Send us)
Leviathan! (Help us)

Silence! When he beset upon us***
Mistaken! Or else I'm dead
The rising current of deep awakened
My fury; My name is Whorl!

Swell, seize their boat; Leviathan Leviathan
Surge, tidal wall; Leviathan
Sea come and fall; Leviathan Leviathan
To swallow up the world; Leviathan
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*He says we, but I assume he meant we're
**set: A nautical term referring to the direction the current is flowing.
***Wrong, but the closest i can get.
Of course this is going to be riddled with errors much like the attempts at Titan lyrics, but whatever.

I thought I heard 'sea swallows all' in there at some point.

I posted my own interpretation in here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...g-lyrics/page2

But, this is what I've found:

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Leviathan Lyrics (ver.4)

Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Save us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Kill them!)

Leviathan! Leviathan! (Bless us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Test us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Send us!)
Leviathan! (Help us!)

Drifting! Can ???.
Forsaken! She damns your souls.
My current! ??? awakened.
My bloodlust! My name is Whorl!

Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Save us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Tend us!)

Leviathan! Leviathan! (Bless us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Test us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)

Leviathan! Leviathan! (Lend us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Hold us!)
Leviathan! Leviathan! (Send us!)
Leviathan! (Help us!)

Silence! Or maybe that is all there is.
Mistaken! Whorls sunder.
The rising! ??? the deep awakened.
My fury! My name is Whorl!

Swell to seize their hope; Leviathan! Leviathan!
Surging tidal wall; Leviathan!
Sea covers all; Leviathan! Leviathan!
To swallow up the world! Leviathan!
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Leviathan!!

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Wow, that's really helpful. Can't believe I didn't see that when I used the search function.

Some things that bother me about yours:
The 'Leviathan! Leviathan! (Help us!)' above 'hold us' sounds like a very prominent 'rages'. (Some other of your 'help us's bother me)
In the first 'Without a surface they can't live', the 'they can't live' just doesn't fit no matter how much you shorten it.
Your second 'My blood is red! Without a surface they can't live' just doesn't seem to match up at all.
While your 'stormy seas' and 'smashing against our hull' sounds cooler and make more sense, I feel that mine matches better.

Other than that yours seems really close. Also: is that a quote that's allowing you to bypass the character limit?

Edit: Of course this is just my opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt. Just figured I'd add some criticism.

Editing your post allows you to bypass characters limits. It's incredibly handy when it comes to posting things like lyrics, or when you are replying to multiple posts and have a bunch of quotes. And don't worry about the criticism, when it comes to figuring out this stuff any interpretations are better than no other interpretations =)

That aside:
-I agree that not all of my "Help Us" are accurate, but that's what my ears were hearing at the time and they seemed to fit better than a bunch of "???" after every chant. However, I'm almost 100% certain that they're chanting "Bless Us" and not "Grace Us." Your use of "Tend Us" certainly sounds more accurate at certain parts, so you're probably more correct than I am, if not completely correct.

-The "Without a surface they can't live" is incorrect, but frankly I can't come up with anything better right now. To my ears, it sounds like "Without asurahs/asimple theycanlee", so you can see how I got to that, haha!

-All of the shouts after the chorus I'm pretty sure of; "Raging", "Forsaken", "My blood red", etc. It's all of the lines following those that I'm most unsure of and will most likely change frequently.

-The last verse I'm confident is accurate, barring the first line. My ears hear "Swarmy", and in the song the way they warp the lead singer's voice during the last verse gives a lot of words a "Wuh" sound, so I adjust them at my discretion and see what makes the most sense. Another word I'm flip-flopping over is "Hull" in the second line. It's either "Hull" or "Wall", and either works. Given the obvious nautical theme of the song I went with "Hull" this time.

Yeah, its definitely "bless us." I'm still somewhat unsure on a lot of my text after the chants. Much like yourself, I figure close is better than ???

My biggest issue with my post-chant text is despite a good bit of it sounding accurate at parts...It makes no sense. But I guess if I think of them as fanatical worshipers it may make a little sense. *coughs* I'm looking at you "Blends us!"

I definitely hear the "Without a surface" in the first one. It's the word/words that comes after the confuses me.

About your shouts, yeah I agree with most of them. The second "My blood red" is the only one I don't agree with. On a side note: I can't believe you realized the "Mi" of "Mistaken" with how thick that JP pronunciation is. Same thing can be said of the "To swallow." He like completely omits the "low."

Your first two lines in the last verse will probably forever bother me. I agree on the other two though.
For the first line I hear either:
- Swell, seize the world
- Swell, seas of all
Like I've mentioned before though, they make little sense. I refuse to budge on "Swell" though.
On the second line I hear:
- Surge, tidal wall (Sahj, ti tal wall)
My reasoning on this one being I'm pretty sure tidal wall is the name of the skill he uses that hits your group for about 1k. I could be wrong though. I don't pay much attention to skill names.

Probably going to change mine to include some of your stuff later tonight.

Maybe I'm projecting my own opinion a bit too much onto the song, but the way I see it is that it's the Sahagin singing to Leviathan. So when I listen to the lyrics I try and find words that both fit with what the lyrics sound like, as well as fit with my idea of the song's premise. It's helped quite a bit, but I realize that it can also make me imagine certain words where there aren't any, as well as reject certain words because I don't think they fit. That said, all of the other songs with vocals have a similar style: telling a story about the boss. But that's just my method to how I discerned certain words like "Mistaken!" and "To swallow up the world!" =P

-I'm starting to agree that "My blood red!" isn't correct, as listening to the line immediately after, I'm now hearing an "st" sound at the end. So perhaps I should correct "My blood flows!" to "My bloodlust!" But I'll need to listen a bit more. Plus, would Leviathan, an aetherial being, even have blood?

-I also think I was wrong about "Or else I'm dead." If the song is sung from the Sahagin's perspective, it'd be odd to immediately change it to the adventurers' for a line there. Instead, I'm hearing "Whorls under." I'd heard that "er" sound for a while, but just attributed it to the singer's accent. This makes a bit more sense thematically.

-Listening to the last verse again, yeah, you're much closer than I was with those first two lines. I'm now hearing:

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Swell, seize their hope.
Surging, against them all.

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Although that second line still bothers me. I'm hearing "Canst ehr ole", so there's a lot of phrases I can make that sound similar.

This is really quite enjoyable. Having someone to argue with really helps a lot.

Updated the main post. It's starting to shape up quite nicely.

- I've taken a similar approach with breaking down the vocals into groups. The chants are the sahagin, the grungy, hard to understand voice is Leviathan, and the rest is just a narrative how awesome Leviathan is.
Assigning the grungy voice to Leviathan is causing me issues with the "She rams your hulls" bit. But now that I've heard it, I cannot unhear it. I feel like figuring out the first line will add a lot of insight to the rest.

- I've revised the two lines you felt skeptical about and some others in my edit("My blood red!" and "Or else I'm dead.") Feedback would be appreciated.

- I know I sound like a broken record, but I just can't hear anything other than "Tidal wall" for the second line of the last verse. Most likely just a personal bias. I can mostly agree with the "Seize their hope," though in my case its now "Seize their boat."

I know, right? It's so nice to bounce ideas back and forth, haha! I've also updated my lyrics as well; things do seem to be shaping up.

-Funnily enough, I'm not hearing "She rams your hulls" anymore. The "rams" has always had a "d" sound at the start to me, so in my first attempt at the lyrics I wrote it as "She drowns your halls." But that didn't last, and this one still doesn't seem to fit...hmm... This part of the lyrics has always been tricky, and it doesn't seem to be getting easier.

-I've changed the line "My blood red" to your "My current." I keep hearing a "b" sound rather than a hard "c", but much like the last verse of this song, the lead singer's voice is distorted. Plus, it makes more sense with the following line, so I think we've got that one. However, I disagree with "Whorl asunder" in favor of my "Whorls under", as yours is five syllables, and I can only hear four. That said, what with the voice distortion and accent, he could be singing "Whorl" as one syllable rather than two.

-Haha, I can't tell you to hear something that you aren't, so no worries there. Our interpretations sound pretty similar compared to the singer's accent and what-not, so it's a good estimate nonetheless.

I'll probably make a few more minor changes to mine tonight, hopefully I'll figure out a few of those ??? sections.

EDIT: Y'know, maybe it's "Whorls sunder."? It's basically a combination of what we're saying, and it matches the syllable count.

Man, I'm back to hearing "Mistaken! Or else I'm dead" again. As far as "Whorls sunder" goes, I prefer "Whorl sunder" or "Whorls under." It bothers me that none of these have connection to anything else though. Thus, I assume it might be linked to the previous line. Definitely gunna put some time into figuring that out.

The way I was hearing "Whorl asunder" was through (worl - a - sun - dah.) But now, I'm back to "Or else I'm dead."

I think I'm just going to ignore the previously mentioned lines though until I have a vague idea of the first line of their verses.

Edit: Also for your "Without a surface they can't live." At one point in time I thought I heard "Without a surface vacant." I dropped it because it made no sense, but maybe it will help you.

I was hearing something similar to "Without a surface sakenly" a lot, so maybe the word we're looking for is "forsaken" or even "reckoning"? Although the latter is definitely more in tone with Gaurda than Leviathan, that "-acan-" sound seems to be getting both of us. Of course, your use of "awakening" fits just as well. Hrmm...

-I don't think the first word after the initial chorus is "Raging" anymore. It seems to start with either a "Dr" or a "Gr" and has a "s" sound in the middle. "Grace me/thee"? "Gracing" perhaps? Heck, "Tragedy" may even work! As for the following line, I can't stop hearing "Canadian is all we eat." ...I'm pretty sure it's wrong, though, haha!

-I'm also thinking the next line is more along the lines of: "Forsaken! She damns your souls(?)" I question the last word because I don't hear any "s" that would start it, but I prefer it over my previous version.

-After the repeat of the chorus, I'm hearing "Stormiest! Or maybe that is all there is." I don't really like the word "Stormiest", but I've also been hearing "Story is" for the longest time, but that makes no sense.

-I'm also not really hearing "My blood is red" anymore. It's sounding like "My poison" or "My blood risen". But the first one feels too short and the second doesn't quite work either.

Unfortunately there's no PM functionality here, so I gotta bump this and hope you see it, Mysteltain.
Not sure if you caught the small part of the female version during the stream, but if not there's a youtube copy here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTEbkVK9CI#t=3m
I feel like the lyrics between the versions may differ a bit because she has the "my bloodlust" and "mistaken" lines in the same verse, which never happens in the Soken version AFAIK.

I look for this topic every couple days to see if you replied, no worries, haha! That version with the female vocals--outside of being badass--does clear up a few things, although it also muddies the waters (no pun intended). For starters...

-Finally, we know the first word after the chorus repeats: "Silence!" That one had been bothering me for the longest time. Now, the phrase after it I'm still not sure about either.

-Although I'm confident that the following line is "Mistaken! Whorls sunder." I'm hearing in the female vocals "Waves overhead." This is making me question some of my previous lines, because I'm not sure if I underestimated just how warped the male vocals are by some synthesizer. Of course, since this was one of Soken's early drafts, perhaps he changed the lines? It's far too up-in-the-air to properly figure it out.

-I can now hear "The rising!" in the third line, although the voice is still warped pretty heavily in my opinion. The following line I'm not sure of still. Yours is probably right, but I think it still has too many syllables.

-I am not budging on "Surge, against them all". She may sing "Surge, tidal wall", but for the life of me I cannot stop hearing "st" sounds in that section. When they repeat it, I hear it less, but still...

-"Sea, come and fall" or "Sea, covers all"... They both fit, or maybe my brain's just playing tricks on my ears. I may flip-flop on these.

+1 to both of you. Been looking for anything that explains the lyrics beyond 'leviathan'.

And I would go with Sea Covers All as it is the motto of the Maelstrom/Limsans who have a lot of history with Mr Fishy

Haha. You mention underestimating how much its modulated. In that video I linked he gives everyone an example of the raw sound he used. It's the "Drifting" line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTEbkVK9CI#t=1m22s
Although it helps a lot, he's still really hard to understand rofl.

-Yeah, definitely silence....but what follows is still a mystery to me. I swear I hear the female saying "Silence! A crowd(cloud?) of salty(rofl) sailors. Mistaken! Was all we are." I can't make out what she says after "Rising" though. I can in no way match these up to Soken singing though. None of it sounds similar in the least except for the single word "Silence."

- I understand your issue with Tidal wall. I can definitely hear the 'st' you mention and it threw me off for a while til I just ignored it. Almost like "Tistal wall" to me. On another note, I finally remembered to take note of Leviathan's skill in the fight...and it's Tidal Roar, not Tidal Wall.

- I'm going with "Come and fall." It's what I had heard originally, but it just sounded so dumb to me that I decided on something more similar to "Swallows all," "Covers all."

@Magnesium02: What you're looking for is "Till sea swallows all." Throughout the entire song, I waited for a reference to this...never got it, except for maybe the "To swallow up the world" bit.

Overall, aside from the words after Leviathan and the Silence line, I'm pretty satisfied with this.

I swear I keep hearing Tides will fall instead of Tidal Wall. I also kind of hear Season fall instead of seize their boat... And the "To Swallow up the world" part; I don't hear the word to but just swallow..

Leviathan, Leviathan! Lord of all the land!
Leviathan, Leviathan! Rules with iron hand!
Leviathan, Leviathan! Leads the brave and true!
Leviathan, Leviathan! Now come along and meet his trusty crew!

Leviathan, Leviathan will clip your tuft, split your hairs and ruffle your fluff.
Leviathan, Leviathan will throw you for a loop. Brave a wall of whiskers to find his troupe.
Leviathan, Leviathan is sly yet sweet. He'll tickle your nose then tickle your feet.
Leviathan, Leviathan's eye for fun is clear. He'll put an arrow straight in your rear!
Leviathan, Leviathan plays with fire. Poms a-burning on her pyre.
Leviathan, Leviathan likes her buddies big to sing a little song and dance a little jig.
Leviathan, Leviathan shivers and shakes. She'll stick you in the gut and give you bellyaches.

And who's behind them, standing tall?
Why, the biggest Primal of them all!

Leviathan, Leviathan! Kind and noble lord!
Nod your noggle nog and mind your gob or he'll put you to the sword!
Leviathan, Leviathan! His judgment you will dread.

Leviathan, Leviathan!
What do you decree?
What do you decree?
What do you decree?

Off with their heads!

@GurrenLagann
- I've actually considered that before, but logically it makes no sense. Leviathan would make tides rise, not fall. Plus in the female version you can clearly hear her say "Tidal wall." So I'm sticking with that.

- For the next two, you got to keep in mind that the singers are not native English speakers. I've heard others claim to hear "Season fall" as well, but I have two issues with it. First, it's very loosely related to Leviathan. Second, I hear see za bo. In the female version I hear sea of gold which makes no sense so I've gotta be mishearing, but it's also a good 10 revisions behind the version we hear in the fight so who knows. Thus, I opt for what makes sense.

- You could be right, but I really feel like I hear a hard 'T' before the "Swal." Surprised you didn't mention anything about him not enunciating the "low" in "Swallow." It makes more sense to me without the "To," that's for sure.

@bokchoykn
You forgot to add *creepy sahagin laughter* at the end.

when i first heard Levi's music, I swear they were saying "plenty of food, plenty of food" instead of "levia-than levia-than"

After hearing the female voice over a hundred times, I still hear Tides will Fall. You can clearly hear the word "will" and the "F" sound (well that's what I'm hearing not sure if you heard it right). Yes, I know they aren't native speakers but I just can't hear Tidal Wall.

Sorry I haven't replied in a while, life and what-not, haha! Anyway...

-As much as I'd love to stick with "Against them all", I will concede to "Tidal wall". If the lyrics sung by the female singer were directly transferred over to the male vocalist, then that's what it is. Frankly, I still don't hear it, but it's easy to trick your ears into hearing the same thing when you listen to a song dozens of times over, heh.

-Quick thought, listening to the female vocalist again, she may be singing "Horizon!" rather than "The rising!". It wouldn't make much sense, but it's something I just heard listening to her again.

-After "Silence!" I'm hearing "save us" as the last lyrics in that line... but nothing like that in the male vocals version.

I'd agree that your version's pretty much done outside of the spots where we've both had trouble, Mikaboshi. I'm going to (finally) edit mine with all of my changes and see how it stacks up to yours. By the way, I've recently posted a massive lyrics topic in the Lore forums, so if you and any others would like to help with deciphering some lyrics, please head on over!

Dear all,
For your information, the lyrics has just been posted on the Japanese blog. Enjoy! :-).

Awesome! Hopefully they'll get around to posting the lyrics quickly to the other blogs.

Awesome! I'm actually amazed at how different a lot of the lines were. I thought we were pretty damn close on a lot of it, but man, haha!

Merry Christmas -

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000739.html

Oops, totally late on that XD

This song was a let down for me. I didn't think much thought went into the lyrics.
If they release Shiva I hope its not like...
"SHIVA SHIVA SHIVA SHIVA!!!" YEAH!!! SHIVA!!! OOOH THATS COLD SHIVA!!

I actually like the lyrics. It's almost like a prayer/chant, and considering how Primals are summoned by the beast tribe, I just get a kick from imagining hundreds of Sahagins sway back and forth while singing this XP

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Originally Posted by Shenandoah

I actually like the lyrics. It's almost like a prayer/chant, and considering how Primals are summoned by the beast tribe, I just get a kick from imagining hundreds of Sahagins sway back and forth while singing this XP

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I agree, I like them a lot! They are very tribal and primal.

It's a great contrast to Titan and his poetic lyrics!