Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Mysteltain]

New patch! New songs! So far, I've run through the Alphascape and Hell's Kier, and found two new vocal songs (I believe the Alphascape song is called eScape, while Suzaku's is Sunrise).

[Damnhedge]

So far I can really only kinda make out one part of it and that's like probably majorly wrong.

Around the 1:06 mark

"The ancient evils, come ready to ride.
The deadly silence, awaiting the time.
A wave of peasants, come ready to ride.
A warring evil, awaiting the time."

[Bright-Flower]

I love the song but I can't make out a word of it, hope SE releases the official lyrics soon.

[Guiballad]

The music this patch is so damn good! How does Soken keeps doing it? Both vocal themes, as the kids say nowadays, slap.
Also here is a stab at a couple of Omega lyrics

Around the 1:06 mark

"Ancients echos come ready to life
In deadly silence awaiting the time
Come wayward hazard come ready to die
??????"

and then at around the :54 mark i think i hear

"Why did the warriors wandered away with a wanting wonder"

[ChaoticCrimson]

Both songs are amazing. I also love how Sunrise uses some of the leitmotifs from Amatsu Kaze, too. Honestly the new battle themes these last few patches have been so solid and enjoyable.

[QuellingStrikes]

So I started to listen to the Omega song(eScape) closely to at least make out words that could sound like the lyrics they are singing with huge gaps, but maybe someone else can pitch in or get some starts from it:

A pitching tinder
Come ready to fly
Prepare your quivers (VERY unlikely on this part, the third word most likely starts with an s)
Away with the tide
A song held together
Come ready to fly
Illusions carry
Away with your time

One/Why did the warriors wander away with their wanting brothers
Say with the heroes their comes a way [...] fighting
eScape [...] the peace/pace in their strong hold/stronghold [...]
[I can't understand the entirety of the last line]
And a run run(or a word that sounds a lot like this) begin

Venture across
Come ready to fly
An ethic service (there is defenitley a soft spoken syllable at the end of the last word)
Away with the tide
A wayward hazard
Come ready to try/fly(sly?)
A worrying word/Wyrm (might refer to Midgardsormr)
Away with your time (here it defenitley says your)

Time is it always the strongest is you in a way how I would see it (probably 0% chance to be this)
Face [...]
Fate trigger concern [...] come and stand together
Me [...]
And a run run dig in (there is a very notable d sound here opposed to the b sound before)

[...] fighting you
Get [...] to seek tomorrow
Tonight [...] what we're/you're fighting for/you
Tonight coming back (3x) to unravel.


Yeah, it's VERY patchy but I hope it's something to work with haha.

[MercuryD]

Trying to work on Suzaku's theme now but it's being complicated lol

[Rocl]

eScape's vocal modulation makes it particularly inscrutable for me, but I decided after hearing "ancient eggrolls" too many times I'd try to give it a proper listen through. Since I can't speak Japanese at all I have more or less given up on Sunrise but perhaps there's an English chorus like Amatsu Kaze! I also can't help but wonder if From the Heavens has actual lyrics or just more ... "generic chanting." You can purchase the orchestrion roll from Eschina in Rhalgr's Reach--this is the theme used in the trailer and the second half of the savage Alphascape V4. Given that it's a mix of the Maker's Ruin and Torn from the Heavens-- I wonder!

eScape

A pitching tinder, (I can't unhear this now, damn)
Come ready to fight,
Prepare your [???] (young stables? lol)
Away with the tide (I've waited the time?)
The sum has gathered
Come ready to fight,
Illusions carried (Illusions created?)
Away with the tide(I've waited the time?)

Why do other warriors wander away from (with?) their wanting brothers?
When does ... heroes ... ?
Escape, freedom from ... thinking ...
Fate, ... [now let the real fun]--begin!

Ancient echoes
Come ready to fight
In deathly silence
Away with the tide (I've waited the time?)
A wave of hazards (A rainbow passes?)
Come ready to fight
A roaring inward (... lonely? ...)
Away with the tide (I've waited the time?)

Time to set a story ... you standing ...
Face ... phase ...
Fate, freedoms ...
... [now let the real fun]--begin!

Time to ... follow
Decide, [which one of us lives to see] tomorrow!
Tonight, we finally meet (we're going to meet?) each other in battle,
Tonight [battle back to back] in battle! (Tonight, we're going to have an action-packed battle?)

Very rough. I'm super pumped that Soken sings the song as well. I loved his performance in Through the Maelstorm, and it's been one of my absolute favourite themes since and most definitely my favourite Primal theme! At least.. I hope this is Soken or else I'd feel real dumb.

Sunrise
There's definitely the same/similar male voice present in this song that sung the English lyrics in Byakko. However, the instruments drown them pretty well and I can't make anything out. I can't even tell if they're speaking English!

[Mysteltain]

This is what I've made out of eScape thus far, combined with a bit of all of your posts. The voice modulation really does make some of the faster parts pretty hard to make out:

Addition ???,
Come at here to fly
A valiant effort,
The sum has gathered,
Come at here to fly
Illusions carried,
Away with the tide

Why do other warriors wander the way, where the ??? wanders?
Rain, from ??? in their habits fighting
eScape, for your forward-thinking ???
Flee from the cosmic patterns again and let the hunt begin!

Ancient echoes,
Come at here to fly
In deathly silence,
Awaiting to die
A wave of hazard,
Come at here to fly
Evolving onward,
Away with the tide

Time to set a ??? stepping aside ???
Space took a leave your twilight of years, every object passing
Fate ???
Flee to the cosmic patterns of old, and let the hunt begin!

Time, to the end, to the end and further follow (follow!)
Desire, for the sun, for the sun we will see tomorrow
Tonight, over the edge, over the edge and they will follow (follow!)
Demise, take me back, take me back, take me back to the morrow

As far as Sunrise goes, this is what I've come up with regarding the English lyrics. Fortunately, Rainy Moon has once again transcribed and translated what they hear of the song, so check that out, too!

Bathed in sorrowful refrain
Of the bird's sweet haunting elegy.
Yearning cannot fight my fate.
Stain your cheeks, for we shall meet again.

I'm pretty unsure of the second-to-last line, as it's the hardest of the four to make out. I do like how, similar to Wayward Daughter, the English chorus is sung as a tanka(?), similar to what the Wandering Mistral recites to us prior to each EX Primal unlocking.

[Empath]

the first line sounds like it has a hard 'th' so i keep thinking it sounds like 'A three-shape changer', cuz i mean omega does have shape-changing abilities?