Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[StarDrake]

Just to note, for my part ever since it dropped, the second bit of four-fold repeats at the climax of the trailer has unmistakably sounded like rebirth to me.

So, it's:
We fall [x4]
into re-BIRTH!
rebirth
rebirth
rebirth, [and now we fall]!

... with that last bit still questionable because it's difficult to make out with Exarch on top of it.

[Mysteltain]

Well, we have a sneak preview of our first new primal theme, courtesy of the livestream earlier today! I've bracketed words or phrases that I'm unsure of.

Titania's Theme

Dancing through the fields
Up and down again
Round and round the bend
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

From a flowery bed
To the cloud's ascent
Tumble down again
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

Yet with each descent
You will rise again
To our heart's content
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

Fly away my friend
For the day ['ere end]
You'll begin again
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

'Til [taunting] the skies [wanton] quiet
[Wanton] silence [???] we ride
Wond'ring when we'll be...~

Dancing through the fields
Up and down again
Round and round the bend
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

From a flowery bed
To the cloud's ascent
Tumble down again
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

Yet with each descent
You will rise again
To our heart's content
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

Fly away my friend
For the day ['ere end]
You'll begin again
Fa-la-la-la-la-la~

Still [taunting] the sky's gentle sun,
Gently wandering alone in the night,
[Do those] cries when you're free!~

[???] (I can only make out a few words here and there in this section)

Our guest must be soaring high up
Among the lullaby
Baby's breath and butterflies
Singing our sweet lullaby
Some will try to hold thee [eyes]
From the [???] lullaby
Come [anon] the angel [???]
Singing our sweet lullaby

??? [lonesome fate]
Your still lost in the rain
???
'Til the [song] comes again.

[Guiballad]

And we got lyrics for the main theme

https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002797.html

[347SPECTRE]

And we got lyrics for the main theme

https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002797.html

Here's an NA link for those that want it: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002805.html

Now all we need is a version sans voice-overs and sfx because this is a great song on its own.

[MrThinker]

Here's an NA link for those that want it: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002805.html

Now all we need is a version sans voice-overs and sfx because this is a great song on its own.

Pasted the Lyrics here just because people might want them on the forums:

Shadowbringers

For whom weeps the storm,
Her tears on our skin
The days of our years gone,
Our souls soaked in sin
These memories ache with the weight of tomorrow

Who fights?
Who flies?
Who falls?

One brings shadow, one brings light
Two-toned echoes tumbling through time
Threescore wasted, ten cast aside
Four-fold knowing, no end in sight
One brings shadow, one brings light
One dark future no one survives
On their shadows, away we fly

The road that we walk
Is lost in the flood
Here proud angels bathe in
Their wages of blood
At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow

One brings shadow, one brings light
To this riddle all souls are tied
Brief our moments, brazen and bright
Forged in fury, tempered in ice
Hindmost devils, early to rise
Sing come twilight, sleep when they die
Heaven's banquet leavened with lies
Sating honor, envy, and pride
One brings shadow, one brings light
Run from the light

Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge
A reflection in the glass
Recollections of our past
Swift as darkness, cold as ash
Far beyond this dream of paradise lost

Home
Riding home
Dying hope
Hold onto hope... Ohhh...
Home
Riding home
Home, riding home
Hope, finding hope... Ohhh...

One brings shadow, one brings light
One more chapter we've yet to write
Want for nothing, nothing denied
Wand'ring ended, futures aligned
One brings shadow, one brings light
One brings shadow, one brings light
You are the light

We fall
We fall
We fall
We fall unto the end

One world's end

Our world's end

Our end

We won't end

I am shadow, I am the light

[Daralii]

Here's an NA link for those that want it: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002805.html

Now all we need is a version sans voice-overs and sfx because this is a great song on its own.

People ripped the .ogg within a half hour of the patch going out. I won't link it here out of respect, but it's easy to find on Youtube.

The singer is Jason Charles Miller, who might be best known for Rules of Nature from Metal Gear Rising.

https://twitter.com/jasoncmiller/sta...21126930919429

[Sove92]

Well, since there is nothing on this one yet. And well, because this one really hits me in the feels.

Can't hear everything but almost. Fixes from self-observations, outside comments and posts below applied (Enkidoh, Ibi).

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

For whom weeps the storm,
Her tears on our skin
The days of our years gone,
Our souls soaked in sin
These memories ache with the weight of tomorrow

Who fights?
Who flies?
Who falls?

Stand tall, oo-oooo...h, my friend.
May all of the dark lost inside you find light again.
In time, tumbling, turning, we seek amends
Eternal winds to the land, we send
Our journey will never end

From those who've fallen, to those who rise
A prayer to keeps us ever by your side
An undying promise that we just might, carry on in a song
Pray don't forget us, your bygone kin
With one world's end, does a new begin

And should our souls scatter unto the wind
Still we shall live on

Stand tall, oo-oooo...h, my friend
May all of the dark deep inside you find light again
This time, tumbling, turning, we make amends,
Eternal winds from the land, I send
Here to lift us then we won't end.

[Enkidoh]

In time turn morning turning ???

That sounds to me like "turn morning turning... we see (or maybe 'sea') commands", but your guess is as good as mine.

This time ???? we make amends
Eternal winds toward the land, I said
Here to live ????

EDIT: I was wrong, it's not a repeat of the former chorus other than the first two lines have similarities, but the last three sound like this to me:

"This time tumbling turning we make commands
Eternal winds from the land, I said
Here to lift us, then we World's End."

Or at least that's what it seems to me, someone might hear it differently.

[Sove92]

Actually, that is clearly "bygone kin" not 'king', as 'kin' makes better sense in the context of the line (referring to the inhabitants of Hydaelyn's Shards like the First, who have indeed been forsaken somewhat.).

Yes, already fixed that one.

"This time tumbling turning we make commands
Eternal winds from the land, I said
Here to lift us, then we World's End."

I can hear these too, so I can agree on this.

[Ibi]

Gonna contribute a few minor things that I hear on Tomorrow and Tomorrow (because it's so good that I can't stop listening to it):

May all like the dark lost inside you find light again

"May all of the dark lost inside you find light again"

In time turn morning turning we see ???? ????

"In time, tumbling, turning, we seek amends"

Eternal winds to the land, descend

"Eternal winds to the land, we send"

From those who fallen, to those who rise

"From those who've fallen, to those who rise"

Similarly on the reprise:

May all like the dark deep inside you find light again

"May all of the dark deep inside you find light again"

This time, time whirling, turning, we make amends,

"This time, tumbling, turning we make amends"

Here to lift us the new world's end

"Here to lift us then we won't end."