Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Rocl]

The Lore panel has given us 3 sets of Official lyrics!:

Beauty's Wicked Wiles


The Measure of his Reach


Garlean Territorial Anthem

[Mysteltain]

Thanks for the screenshots, Rocl! Updated the main post with with full lyrics and names.

[347SPECTRE]

The Royal Menagerie phase 2 song is titled 'The Worm's Tail'

[Enkidoh]

Also the 'Garlean Territorial Anthem' is listed as The Measure of Our Reach on the Orchestrion, further confirming that the Garleans simply stole it from Ala Mhigo (The Measure of His Reach), rewrote the lyrics into Imperial propaganda, and gave it back to Ala Mhigo. So Garlemald are not only evil world-conquering warmongers, they're also copyright thieves as well (Insomuch as concepts like 'intellectual property' even exist in Hydaelyn).

[CaesarCV]

I actually liked that little touch. It's interesting how they've evolved the Garlean Empire to have some of their culture and such be more dependent on the local regions. It's a great way to give the Empire a lot more visual variety while looking and feeling distinctly Garlean. It's also a nice way to make them more like classical Empires such as the Romans, who often adapted local culture rather than destroying it outright. Although we don't know how much cultural pushback there is in the Garlean's case, probably less due to their more propagandistic stylings.

[Remedi]

I was wondering, since the conquest of ala mhigo happened during the reign of the previous emperor, who was an admirer of arts, maybe he decided to adapt the ala migan anthem as the garlean empire anthem,

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I was wondering, since the conquest of ala mhigo happened during the reign of the previous emperor, who was an admirer of arts, maybe he decided to adapt the ala migan anthem as the garlean empire anthem,

While it's never specified whether The Measure of Our Reach is the anthem for the Empire as a whole or just for Colonial Ala Mhigo, my bet is the latter. Garlemald was established as a Republic over 500 years before there's any evidence of them encountering Ala Mhigans, and were a nationalistic, expansionist empire decades before the same; it's hard to imagine them not having some unifying anthem for any of that history, or to imagine them replacing an existing one with one based off that of a freshly-conquered state.

[Remedi]

True but since they've been depitched much like the roman republic/empire where they like to add to their culture something off conquered nations, I have the suspect that since the emperor was enamored with arts he might've found the ala mhigan anthem fitting for the empire.
I do remember it beign called regional anthem once so you might be correct with your sentence but still I do wonder

[Annana]

Felt like I should drop off the lyrics used in the Eorzean Symphony renditions of some songs.

Ultima

Heart of darkness beatheth, Ultima
Iron enigma treateth, Ultima
Shielding light retreateth, Ultima
Hydealyn defeated. Ah, Ultima
Witness
Witness
Witness
Witness
Witness
Beat, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik
Beat, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik
Witness
Witness
Witness
Ah, rise, Ultima!
Witness Ultima
Darkness come, rend the shield of light
Destruction
Salvation
Ultima!
Witness
Ah, witness
Ah, witness
Ah, witness
Ah
Heart of darkness beatheth, Ultima
Shielding light retreateth, Ultima
Beat, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik
Beat, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik
Witness Ultima
Witness Ultima
Witness!

Calamity Unbound

He watcheth
He knoweth
Ah, chaos

He taketh
Bestoweth
Ah, chaos

He reapeth
He soweth
Ah, chaos

He graspeth
Foregoeth
Ah, chaos

Undying
Unbroken
Ah, pandemonium

Revenge Twofold

Saih alamorn in o sai asah afah
[Extinction or eternal redemption, thou must choose]
Shess y gahr y Nidhogg dran afah
[Behold the wrath of wyrm Nidhogg eternal]
Saih alamorn in o sai asah afah
[Extinction or eternal redemption, thou must choose]
Sekh a nesh seh anoh ahs an
[Or we shall melt thy flesh and see thy bones ash]

Wills unbending
Faith unending
Stone defending
Now our steel shall sing

To their trespass
We are witness
Here to pass this
Final sentence

No forgiveness
Guide us, O mighty Fury
No deliverence
Only justice
Only vengeance

No forgiveness
Guide us to victory!
No deliverence
Only justice
Only vengeance

Heroes

Dys an sohm in
[Our slumber disturbed]
Rhos an kyn ala na
[All my brothers wake]
Eehl an sohm in
[Our peace sacrificed]
Sahl djas afah an
[Vengeance will be ours]

Guide us!
Guide us!
Guide us!
Guide us!
Guide us!
Guide us!
Grant us this victory!

Justice, no forgiveness
Vengeance, no deliverance
Witness to their trespass
Pass this final sentence

Justice, no forgiveness
Vengeance, no deliverance
Witness to their trespass
Pass this final sentence

[Balipu]

True but since they've been depitched much like the roman republic/empire where they like to add to their culture something off conquered nations, I have the suspect that since the emperor was enamored with arts he might've found the ala mhigan anthem fitting for the empire.
I do remember it beign called regional anthem once so you might be correct with your sentence but still I do wonder

It was mentioned by Kojiin the lore panel that it is the regional anthem chosen to make the Garleans look less like evil conquerors (obviously this was before Zenos). This suggests that Gyr Abania was the first place outside Ilsabard to fall.