Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Vulcwen]

There's also a lot more lyrics in this song than previous CG trailers, which ain't making this any easier, haha! But, yeah, this one's pretty hard compared to the others. Here's my current attempt:

At the end of the song I hear:
We vow! x4
unto the heir!
The heir! x2
to hell with tiiiiiiiiiime

(what brings shadow, what brings the light)

[347SPECTRE]

A new trailer and a new song! Based on previous pattern I'd guess this one is called "Shadowbringers"

That's what I was thinking as well unless they pull what they did with Stormblood's "Storm of Blood" and call it "Bringer of Shadows"
Then again, the SB trailer song didn't feel much like a single cohesive song. I do understand these trailer songs are basically overtures for the expansion as a whole but SB's felt disjointed to me.

[Quor]

Second line of the introductory vocals is "her tears on her skin" for sure.

One brings shadow, one brings light
Two-toned echoes turning the tide [?]
Three score wasted and ten cast aside
... following, no end in sight [there's a FOUR/FOR here probably to keep the counting theme going?]

"Four years following, no end in sight"? Perhaps referencing the struggles the WoL has gone through, nicely mocked by the gremlin later when it says "No fight left to fight" to the WoL. Is a four year time period relevant in anyway? I can't remember. Alternatively, I'm having a hard time hearing a definite "Y" sound for "years" in there. Another interpretation that comes from repeated listenings is "All four wanting, no end in sight." This makes even less sense to me than my previous phrase though. I just can't reliably hear the "Y" sound at all.

Now ... resent (repent?) ... cast ... tomorrow

I hear a "will" before the "resent/repent" or whatever it is. To be frank, I'm actually hearing a "Now his love will send you" at the beginning followed by a "and cast to tomorrow" at the end. Who's love? Zodiarks? It would make a kind of sense given what the WoL (and the rest of the Scions) have gone through with the voice in their head. It would also make sense since we're "bringing darkness" as the Warrior of Darkness. Also, what the hell is "cast to tomorrow" supposed to be? I'm probably hearing that one wrong, but it's the best I can make out. Maybe "cast off tomorrow?" Hard to say for sure, but I'm confident that there is a "will" before the "send/resent/repent" word, whatever it is. I'm 100% confident I'm hearing "will" but only like 80% confident about the rest of the phrase.

The rest is spot on to what I can hear. Without cleaning out the background sounds somehow it's hard for me to say anything about the rest.

[Damnhedge]

I've jotted down an attempt! Not as in depth as you guys as we didn't even bother with Hydaelyn's singing in the begining or anything where major sound effects happened

(1:25)
One brings Shadow, One brings Light
Two doomed Echoes coming to die
Threescore wasted dead cast aside
Poor fool knowing no end in sight

(1:43)
One brings Shadow, One brings Light
???????????
??????? Shadows away we fly

(1:59)
The road that we walk, is lost in the flood
We are far ??????????
Oh is the World's end to be cast on tomorrow



(5:44)
We walk, we walk, we walk, we walk until the end
the end, the end, our end won't stop.

[Daralii]

I hear "I bring shadow, I bring the night" in the beginning of the male whisper. given the statement that we are to literally bring the night cycle back to the first, this also makes more sense to me.

Especially since the killing blow against the first sin eater cuts open a tear in the cloud cover that shows the night sky. It sounds like "I bring the shadow, I bring the light" the last time near the end, but it otherwise sounds more like "night" to me.

[Patcheresu]

There was a moment in one of the previous Fanfests where there was a crowd Q&A. A person asked Soken what the lyrics were to the song. He said he wouldn't share, but leaned into his mic and repeated the first line and it sounded very much like "One brings shadow, one brings (the) light"

[Yuyuka3]

This is a pretty hard one... I have to be honest, I cannot make out most of it. Here are some snippets I feel I do understand, though. Also, I hear something markedly different in the first line than anyone else it seems...
First line:
"Thy heart weeps the storm"
Can be completely wrong on this, though xD

Male part, start:
"One brings shadow, one brings the light,
two-toned echoes turning the tide
threescore wasted, decades decide
[...] cast aside(?)
[...]

One brings shadow, one brings the light
[...]
[...]
[...] away we fly"
Second male voice:
"The world that we walk
Is lost in the flood
The fight that we are fighting, the weight is [...]" or "The light isn't fading, the weight is [...]" or maybe even "The fight is awaiting, the weight is [...]". Really not sure on the beginning, but more leaning to fight.
Cannot make out the rest, most is muddled by the battle sounds.

When Thancred makes his promise to Minfilia at around 4:30
"We walk alone" or "we walk the light"

Anyone else hearing something like
"Reborn, reborn, reborn, reborn, born to be [...]" at around 5:40 onward? Then...
"The end, the end, the end, the end [...]" maybe "The end we fight"?
Will listen some more, also with my much better quality headphones instead of the in-ears I use on my phone...

[Chista]

I'm getting this so far:

"Our home" Weeps the star
Her tears on her sleeve
our ? ? ? whisper/has been
Her soul soaked in sin
These ? ? ? ? ?
While we go to war

You fight
He fights
Who Falls?

one brings shadow, one brings the light
two-tones echoes, turning the tide
Three score wasted, dead, cast aside
all for nothing, no end in sight
One brings shadow, one brings the light
two dark figures, echoes and lies
no man's shadows, away they fly

the road that we walk
is lost in the dark
we're falling to (weigh in?)
awaiting the dawn
there is nowhere safe to
be cast into light

one bring shadows, one brings the light
two toned echoes, lost in the tide
? ? ??, losing their mind
one grows dim ???
two ???
three come ??? twilight ???
four ???
???
one brings shadow, one brings the light
from the night

Our
Time is up (8x)

One brings shadows, one brings the light
two-toned shadows, lost in the tide
???
???
One brings shadows, one brings the light
___ the night! (Hark?)

we fall x3
we fall, into the the end
the end
the end of ???

one brings shadow, one brings the light

[Rosenoire]

Does anyone know the lyrics to Drowning in the Horizon? It's one of the Azim Steppe songs, and on the Stormblood soundtrack, there are vocals, but I can't tell what language they're in. Mongolian, maybe?

[Sekundessounet]

For the Azim song, I think it's just gibberish like Ultima.

As for the Shadowbringers song, I think it's "One bring shadow, one bring the night" rather than "light".