Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[ObsidianFire]

None of the Music used in the YoRHa raid is from the FFXIV devs though. It's all from the NieR devs and it's all nonsense language. They don't even write those lyrics out if you get the NieR OSTs.

You're better off thinking of the "lyrics" of NieR songs as just another vocal instrument rather then something with meaning. Just substitute what you think it's saying in your head and that's just as "correct" as anything else is.

[RicaRuin]

I knew about the invented language but if it can be sung then it has lyrics, regardless of the tongue used.


I just want to sing along even if it's machine language but the lyrics on the Internet don't match what is heard in The Copied Factory raid.


I want the lyrics for the the songs that play during the last two bosses, they are just too cool, I hope the Devs can post them like they've done with other songs in-game!.

The OST during the second last boss is taken directly from NieR: Automata and should match with what's on the internet. Only the theme of the last boss has been edited together with Soken.

[Mysteltain]

I've updated the main post with the Eorzean Symphony II song lyrics. Also, did we ever get the lyrics for last year's Starlight Festival (Starlight, Starbright)? And has anyone come up with any lyrics for this year's song (Starlight de Chocobo)?

[Enkidoh]

The former, I can only assume are possibly included in the SHB OST album, but the later, your guess is as good as mine (I'm certain I hear "children's choice"? at one point). It's possible the lyrics are, as usual, just nonsense words generated automatically by an algorthim of some sort that are stuck together because they sound like lyrics, but don't mean anything at all.

Either way, thank you so much for uploading the new lyrics for the orchestral arrangement of The Worm's Tail especially - the piece makes much more sense now.

[Catwho]

The first line is real words: "Merry greetings from the starry slopes" so it's possible that Starlight de Chocobo has real lyrics.

[Mysteltain]

New patch with new songs! Mostly just remixes of Primal themes and The Primals tracks, but there is one new track with unique lyrics that I'm very keen to figure out. I'll be getting to work on that one later today, and I'll update the main post with the other songs in a bit, too.

[Caity_Cat]

So I've been working on trying to make out the lyrics for the song in Eden's Verse: Refulgence because I was really curious what they were (and also for singin' reasons). A bunch of it is really iffy of course due to how crazy distorted the vocals are, I still have a few entirely blank lines.

Here's what I've got recorded out thus far; I'm still working on it but I think I'm about spent for what I can figure out alone:

Wandering alike
Too weary and I'm
too lost to the ice for saving
My sins cling, binding me
Eyes fill with tears
Her song in my ears
Broken, faded; how long I have waited to open my eyes

Turn the light on, know my name
Won't you turn the light on? (Turn the light on)
Turn the light on, you know my name
Asking turn the light on (Turn the light on)
Turn the light on, can't connect
'til I turn the light on (turn the light on)
____________
____________

Falling too far
______________
A voice from the past
And again with no end
Now a slave to my faults (or "Now a slit to my throat"? "A slave to my thoughts"? etc)
I bow down to my weakness
again and again and again and again and a-
Falling too fast
Let the ground overtake me
A voice from the past echoes on like a drum
Now there's no more goodbyes
Though my heart is still aching
I'll open my eyes one more time, one more time

Reason resigned
Dark seasons design
Spring's fall past the sun is honored
with winter's weight down on us
Visions in white
All fury and fright
Clear as diamond
Yet forever as always
My heart is rising(racing?)

Turn the light on, know my name
Won't you turn the light on? (Turn the light on)
Turn the light on, you know my name
Asking turn the light on (Turn the light on)
Turn the light on, can't connect
'til I turn the light on (turn the light on)
____________
____________

Falling too far
______________
A voice from the past
and again there's no end
Now enslaved to my faults (or "Now a slit to my throat"? "A slave to my thoughts"?)
I bow down to my weakness
again and again and again and again and a-
Falling too fast
______________
A voice from the past echoes on like a drum
Now there's no more goodbyes
______________
I'll open my eyes one last time
one more time, one more time

(I swear I hear the "we fall" from the main ShB theme echo nearly imperceptibly sometime after the fast bits, though I may be losing my mind after looping this song so many times)

[Agner]

Lyrics

I could be wrong, but during these lines:

Her fall in my ears
Broken, faded; how long I have waited to be free of (this)

I hear:

Her song in my ears
Broken, faded; how long I have waited to open my eyes.

It comes on like a drum

Sounds to me like "comes" could be replaced with "goes".

As for:

and I won't _______
______________

I hear as

And I'll open my eyes one more time

Unfortunately that's the only feedback I can offer! I'm not generally the best with lyrics lol.

[Caity_Cat]

I could be wrong, but during these lines:


I personally hear:


Unfortunately that's the only feedback I can offer! I'm not generally the best with lyrics lol.

That's possible, it's really hard to hear for any kind of sibilance or plosives on this singer's high notes. I've also been awake since 6AM tho so that probably doesn't help.

edit: oh you added more stuff. I edited my original post to amend the "Her song in my ears" line cause I actually meant to correct that in my notepad doc and I. did not. I'll look over the other lines you mentioned and make corrections accordingly.

Edit x2: I am very tired and so are my ears aaaaaaaa. I added some of your suggested edits and changed a few other lines that I think I heard a bit better after having taken a break.

[NarikoStar]

Been listening to this all day, I first also heard "Falling too fast" for this second segment...but after getting the bottom phrases to a place I think "Feelings" could work too but since the first phrase is also Falling I'm unsure...

Feelings are ___ ("lost" makes lyrical sense but it doesn't really sound like lost...)
Let the ground overtake me (sounds like "ground" but I don't think that makes sense..)
a voice from the past
echos on like a drum
no more goodbyes
and my heart is still aching
I'll open my eyes one more time, one more time

Either way probably one of my favorite tracks now

Edit: Listened to it a bit more pretty sure it is "ground" as in like falling to your knees