Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[ObsidianFire]

In the notes for the "Final Fantasy XIV - The Best" album, there is a list of all the composers, arrangers, lyricists and vocals by songs. Here's the list of all the songs with lyrics and their credits.

From FFXIV - The Best notes/individual song credits

1. Wayward Daughter
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Natsuko Ishikawa & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Satoko Fujita & Takashi Baba & Joe Tsuchizaki

2. Dragonsong
Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement: Tsutomu Naria
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox & Kazutoyo Maehiro
Vocals: Susan Calloway

3. Rise
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

6. Oblivion
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Ayumi Murata & Akane Ikeya

7. Locus
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox & Masayoshi Soken

8. Equilibrium
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Ayumi Murata

9. Heavensward
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Yoshitaka Suzuki
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Omega Bone

11. Metal - Brute Justice Mode
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Ken Ito & Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox & Masayoshi Soken

14. Revenge of the Horde
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Yoshitaka Suzuki
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

15. Under the Weight
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

16. Fiend
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Dan Inoue

19. Exponential Entropy
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

20. Beauty's Wicked Wiles
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Kenichi Kuroda & Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Paula Kaye Gerhold

21. Answers - Reprise
Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Yaeko Sato & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

25. Metal
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Yoshitaka Suzuki & Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox & Masayoshi Soken

28. Rise of the White Raven
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Latin: Eva Kappeller / Chorus: Masayoshi Soken

29. Fallen Angel
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

31. Pa-paya
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Chorus: Masami Abe & Masayoshi Soken

35. Ultima (Orchestral Version)
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Sachiko Miyano
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Chorus: The Mih Khetto Chorus

39. Through the Maelstrom
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Masayoshi Soken / Chorus: Tidus Seven

41. Thunder Rolls
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Akane Ikeya

44. Amatsu Kaze
Music: Masayoshi Soken
Arrangement: Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics: Banri Oda & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox & Masayoshi Soken & Koji Shirashugi

46. Revolutions
Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement: Tsutomu Naria
Lyrics: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Susan Calloway

54. Answers
Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement: Tsutomu Naria
Lyrics: Yaeko Sato & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals: Susan Calloway

[Mysteltain]

Thank you so much for posting those credits! I've always felt pretty bad about not having proper credits for all of the songs, so this helps a lot.

[Nanami_Hanafubuki]

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

I used your text as a reference, when I didn't understand something.
So here is what I could hear so far in the context.

(female vioce)
I heard weeps the storm,
Her tears on her skin
Our hands over her scar
Our soul soaked in sin
We knew that its hurting
While we go to war
to fight
to force
who Falls? (edit: "to lose" was wrong, it dont sonds so xD Here, nothing makes sense in the 3 lines)


(whisper)
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


(male voice, gremlin scene)
Now all that we've won,
is lost in the Flood
we're falling to weigh in
awaiting the dawn
there is nowhere safe to
be cast to find hope


(whisper, yshtola and urianger scene)
from the night
two toned echoes, lost in the tide
one bring shadows, one brings the light
One keep it ???
they loses their mind
Then come twilight when we ???
one brings shadow, one brings the light
???
one brings shadow, one brings the light
from the night


(hectic singing)
???
???
???
I got it to ???
Back to the ???
we got it to ???
we got it to ???
all we now ???


(Choir) (is repeated several times)
Our Time is up
Time is up
Ouh... (or Aahhh)


(whisper, Thancred Szene)
One brings shadows, one brings the light
two-toned shadows, lost in the tide
one brings ??? ???
Three score wasted, dead, cast aside
??? two-tones echoes
One brings shadows, one brings the light
From the night


(Warrior of Darkness Scene)
we fall (4x)
into the the end
the end
the end of the defend

(whisper)
one brings shadow, one the light

[MrThinker]

Okay i don't have much to add, but during the gremlin scene I am utterly convinced that the lyrics are:

the road that we walk
is lost in the flood
we're falling to weigh in
awaiting the dawn
there is nowhere safe to
be cast on tomorrow

No matter how many times I repeat that last part it always sounds like 'tomorrow' and nothing else.

[saiklo]

Gremlin scene after a few hours listening for consonants in slow motion:

The road that we walk
is lost in the flood
Here foul angels bathe in
their wages of blood
And fears that will say to me
“Cast off tomorrow!”

[MrThinker]

Gremlin scene after a few hours listening for consonants in slow motion:

The road that we walk
is lost in the flood
Here foul angels bathe in
their wages of blood
And fears that will say to me
“Cast off tomorrow!”

Well that certainly sounds more thematically appropriate.

[HyperiusUltima]

I've been listening to the Boss theme a bit, and not to mention that the interpretation by @saiklo is in fact correct for the boss theme's lyrics.

However, I'm still trying to determine if it's "We Fall" or "We Fight", but most say it's "We Fall" for that last bit.

The only thing that makes me wonder is "And fears that will say to me, 'Cast off tomorrow!'"

It's been on my mind when I'm reading this that there is a very, very large uncertainty for the Warrior of Light, now questioning their purpose since originally it was to drive out the Ascians that were the force of Darkness at work attempting to revive Zodiark. Though, since they are recently transitioning into the role of the Warrior of Darkness to quell the Flood of Light in the First, this expansion should spread some 'light'(not trying to pun here) on our understanding of the balance that the Ascians were trying to prevent from tipping in the WoL's shard. There's so many things to think about this expansion I'm wanting to learn more in regards to the lore.

[zuzu-bq]

It does seem like the singer changes the words sometimes on what we have believed to be WE FALL for a while now.

On a sidenote. That sneaky Out of the Labyrinth/Shattered mixed with eScape in the job trailer. Whats up with that, I love it.

[Daralii]

It does seem like the singer changes the words sometimes on what we have believed to be WE FALL for a while now.

On a sidenote. That sneaky Out of the Labyrinth/Shattered mixed with eScape in the job trailer. Whats up with that, I love it.

Considering the Crystal Tower's relevance and eScape's lyrics, it seems thematically appropriate. I want a full version though.

[Mysteltain]

With the shadow of the expansion looming large, and (hopefully!) plenty of new songs for us to go through, I just want to let folks know that I will be updating the song listing for Shadowbringers as new songs come our way, and we inevitably fumble our way through figuring out the lyrics until Koji makes us all feel silly. However, as I have done in the past, I will not be posting anything that may constitute a spoiler as far as location names, boss names, etc. for at least the first two weeks following the official launch. So, there won't be anything like this on Friday or the weekend:

Tro-lo-lo! -Theme of Tataru, the final boss of Shadowbringers

Because 1) that's just not nice to people who haven't even had a chance to finish the story yet. And 2) not true. She'll be the final boss of 6.0, as well all know.

I kindly ask that you all do the same, because it's never fun to stumble upon spoilers when you don't expect or least expect to find them. And for anyone new to the forums who wants to contribute, or just isn't sure if they may be spoiling something, remember that you can hide text by using spoiler tags with [hb] and [ /hb] (no space before the "/"). As such:

Manderville Man! - Theme of Godbert, the Hammer

Because when we do get this fight, no one wants it spoiled, right?

Anyway, that's my update for now. See you all on the other side of the 24-hour maintenance!