Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Zero-ELEC]

Oh, I never knew there was a topic for this. I did this a while ago, so idk how correct it is but this is what I got from listening and re-listening to the trailer over and over:

Heart of ember / wrought in time
Cooling swiftly / bleeding light
Smouldering softly / biding time
Marching forward / left behind

Fire as / shadows clash
Forgotten footfalls / engraved in ash
Fire will / be repayed
Before our echoes / begin to fade
(Fade away!)
(Fade away!)

Heart of ember / wrought in time
Burning brightly / all in white
Kindred souls / [???]
Sorrow, silence / repeating prayer

Strum a song along the way!
Tales of loss and fire and fate!

["Heavensward"]
Dys an sohm in
Rohs an kyn
[DRAGON SPEAK]
[DRAGON SPEAK]

["Storm of Blood"]
Storm of blood! / Born from blood!
Of our fallen brothers!
Time stood still! / Oaths fullfilled!
Now we go for freedom!

Born in blood! (Still we forge ahead!)
Stained in blood! (Until tomorrow!)
Bound by blood! (Still we forge ahead!)
[???] (Until tomorrow!)
Cull these thieves! (Ever forge ahead!)
Hand in hand! (Until tomorrow!)
Souls align! (Ever forge ahead!)
Forge ahead! ([??])
Foward! (Still we forge ahead!)

["Torn from the Heavens"]

Our song of hope she dances on the wind,
Higher! Oh, higher!
'Ere our foes endure
Everything still [??] and strong
Standing tall in the dark 'til we carry on!

On wings hope you'll rise up through the night,
Higher! Oh, higher!
Carry in a song
Raise in [??] in our hearts!
That this chorus might ring for all!

["Shadowbringers"]
(One brings shadow, one brings light)
(Two-toned echoes tumbling through time)
Tumbling down!
Tum- buh- ling down!

Every step we take / echoes in our wake!
For to [?]
Forge ahead!
Should we lose our way / tire of (of) this pain
We won't be afraid,
Forge ahead!

There is no more place! / No more time to waste!
It is not too late!
To forge ahead!

As we ride again! / To another end!
Where it all begins!
Forge ahead!

[Mysteltain]

From the media tour footage we've been getting, it sounds like the daytime theme for Old Sharlayan has lyrics in it (with Amanda Achen gracing us with her vocals once more, it seems!). The mixing of them is similar to the Crystarium's night time theme, as well. Gonna need more than a few listens to make out what she might be singing in this...

[Cilia]

For thousands of years I lay dormant. Now, in the lead-up to Endwalker, I fulfill my promise to return!

Here's what I can make out of Endwalker's main theme:

Heart of ember / wrought in time
Cooling swiftly / abating light
Smoldering softly / biding time
Marching forward / left behind

Fire and shadows clash
Forgotten footfalls engraved in ash
Fire will be repaid
'fore our echoes begin to fade

Fade away...
Fade away...

Heart of ember / wrought in time
[???]
[???]
[???]

Sing a song along the way
Tales of love, steel, fire, and fate

[Heavensward bridge]

Storm of blood!
Born from blood!
Of our fallen brothers

Time's stood still!
Oaths fulfilled!
Now we go for freedom!

Born in blood! (Still we forge ahead!)
Stained in red! (Until tomorrow!)
Bound by blood! (Still we forge ahead!)
Don't lose hope! (Until tomorrow!)
Godless thieves! ([???])
Hand in hand! ([???])
Stars align! ([???])
Forge ahead! ([???])
Move forward! (Still we forge ahead!)

[Torn from the Heavens bridge]

Our song of hope
She dances on the wind
Higher! Oh, higher!

Ere our vows endure
Everything's fulfilled
Strong, standing tall
In the dark do we carry on!

On wings of hope
You rise up through the night
Higher! Oh, higher!

Carry in a song
[???]
[? ...] that its chorus might ring for all!

One brings shadow, one brings the light
Two toned echoes, tumbling through time
Tumbling down! Tumbling down! AHHHH-!

Every step we take / echoes in our wake
But tonight's our fate to forge ahead!

Should we lose our way
Tire of all of this pain
We won't be afraid
To forge ahead!

'till the fall of night
We won't stop the fight
No, it's not too late to forge ahead!

As we ride again
To another end
Where we all begin
To forge ahead!

[Veloran]

Based on the vinyl description, apparently the Endwalker theme and the medley version used for the trailer are two distinct songs.

[HiraishinNoJutsu]

Based on the vinyl description, apparently the Endwalker theme and the medley version used for the trailer are two distinct songs.

Pulled straight from the Vinyl Promotional website

A 7-inch vinyl record featuring the theme song for the latest FINAL FANTASY XIV expansion,
"Endwalker", will be available for purchase ahead of the expansion's launch!
The record includes two versions of the iconic track: "Endwalker,"
edited as the main theme, and "Endwalker - Footfalls," heard in the full-length opening trailer.

The song is composed and performed by the Primals, the official band of FINAL FANTASY XIV,
while Sam Carter of the world-renowned UK metalcore band Architects, appears as the main vocalist.

The jacket features an entirely new illustration
from the talented artists of the FINAL FANTASY XIV team.

"Endwalker - Footfalls" is the medley containing themes from every expansion that we hear in the Full Trailer. The main expansion theme "Endwalker" has yet to be distributed anywhere as far as I know. Soken did say that digital purchase will be available come November 17th so I suppose we have one more surprise waiting for us.

[accidias]

They are, however in Death Unto Dawn, there are no lyrics for "Starlight de Chocobo" and "Starlight de Chocobo?"

Thank you for double checking! VGMdb credits Koji Fox as the lyricist for both tracks, so I was hoping that meant they had, well, lyrics. Disappointing, but I guess a fully fleshed-out Starlight carol would have been a bit unreasonable.

[MrThinker]

So there is an Endwalker MV teaser. Most of what audio is there is clear, but that 3rd line Im still having trouble with. Anyone want to take a gander before next week's Dev Blog Lyrical Journey gives us our answers?

[Mysteltain]

After listening to the first few minutes of the launch trailer a couple (dozen) times (in the different languages) here's what I've come up with for the lyrics. I'm actually pretty confident in these, for once, outside of the ending of the first line of the second verse.

Whispers falling silently, drifts on the wind
But I hear you
Our journey, now a memory fading from sight
But I see you

Falling! Winding to our eternal sea
And yet our hope remains
Guiding! Lighting our way
No time for (mor)-- [the song cuts off here to the next verse]

Tales of loss, and fire, and fate
Every word, our oaths, and our pain
Forge ahead, 'til the end we pray

[Guiballad]

Not only this but the FFXIV x Fender commercial has most of the ending verses without the trailer sounds https://youtu.be/xuL-07N18Jg

[MrThinker]

Not only this but the FFXIV x Fender commercial has most of the ending verses without the trailer sounds https://youtu.be/xuL-07N18Jg

Now just listeining to that first part it really just sounds like

"Wanton rounds of fate"

Anyways here is my (updated) guess at those last lyrics

Every step we take
Echoes in our wake
Wanton rounds of fate
Forge ahead

Should we lose our way,
Tire of all this pain
We won't be afraid
forge ahead

Fearless of our Fate (....)
No return to grace
No its not too late (No its no to late!)
To Forge Ahead (Let us Forge Ahead)

(..another end)

As we ride again (... backs to the sun)
to another end
Where it all begins (.....)
Forge Ahead (Forge Ahead)

I I may have missed it but has noone else tried to figure out what the echoed voices say in the last two verses? some of the lyrics overlap, but other things they say are markedly different. I definitely hear

"backs to the sun"

when the lasst verse begins.