Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Caity_Cat]

This is what I have so far for Hic Svnt Leones! I borrowed a little here from others interpretations (mostly just the "sanis novus")

Wild freaks
Rise through the deep
Dangerous creatures
Perverted and evil
From foulest rite
Coveted pride

Teeth bared
Clawing the air
Seeing bodies heaving
collapsed in their drool
Slaughtered kin
Behind vile wings

Jaws slack
Blood on your back
Here in the valley your death casts no shadow
Seal this fate
Come storm the gate!

Laid bare! Break free! Repeat!
With the moans that fuel the knife, you'll be
Perfect! Born free! Go Forth!
'til there's nothing left but ash

Dark horizons, horrific deeds
(Pandæmonium!)
From the borders, chaos bleeds
(This chaos in me)
Sanis novus, come to thee
(Pandæmonium!)
Here be lions
Follow me

Dig in
Pull back the skin
See what's inside you, this sickness that drives you
Paint it black
Demoniac

Die, grieve
Marred by disease
Rotting and aching, their doomed soul awaking
Testify
Come take a bite!

Bite down!
Blood in the current
Choking out life, as your light's slowly swallowed
Feed your way
All join the fray!

Laid bare! Break free! Repeat!
With the bones that fuel your insanity
I'll wipe! All form! Your mind!
'til it shatters just like glass

Dark horizons, horrific deeds
(Pandæmonium!)
From the borders, chaos bleeds
(This chaos, chaos in me)
Sanis novus, come to thee
(Pandæmonium!)
Here be lions
Follow me

[salthien]

I know this is rather late in the game, but I've got some fixes I've been trying to make for public posts of Flow's lyrics - there are a few generally-accepted lines that I don't think are correct.

Omitted some correct verses for length, but here's my interpretation, with the old incorrect lyrics marked with strikethrough:

Well come and well met, my brave little spark
How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star
Oh, I have long awaited you patiently all this time
Past every fate
Now sing with me once more
Share of your life
Far greater than memory
These loss-and-love Its loss and love,1 words can not hold
Boundless, the tale overflows
And carries your light out to sea

---

Deep dark, far away
I have heard your voice, with weighed2 your every choice
Now our hands join 'round the meaning you sought
I'll catch your tears
Quench your fears with joy, to your devotion 'til you leave ashore3
Where in time all shall as hope be reborn

Hush, love, close your eyes
Let them sleep all blind in such a strange light
It calls to undo dreams, be and all cast down to dreams below4

And my justification for each of the marked corrections:

1. Its loss and love - The sheer amount of both sorrow and joy in the WoL's life is so great that it cannot be held by words alone - thus, the tale overflowing in the following lines, carrying their light out to (the aetherial) sea.

2. weighed your every choice - I don't hear the 'th' in 'with' here, but I do hear the 'd' in 'weighed'. Venat is saying she's been alongside the WoL each step of the way, listening to their words and either weighing the choices they've had to make alongside them, or weighing the choices the WoL has made to see if they can be trusted with the fate of mankind.

3. 'Til you leave ashore - This line makes much more sense to me than 'to your devotion'. The previous lines were all about water - waters flowing into larger and larger bodies, the WoL's light being carried out to sea, sinking into its embrace and being borne down by the tides before surfacing. This is Venat saying she'll comfort them, care for them until it's time for them to leave once more upon the shore of the aetherial sea - Etheirys, where souls are all eventually reborn.

4. It cast down to dreams below - The hardest part of this song to hear by far. I'm certain the line prior to this isn't correct at all, but I haven't the slightest what it could actually be. This line, however, I'm reasonably sure I have correct, because the previously-suggested line is kind of word salad-y and this feels more grammatically correct. It's a toss-up whether it's "calls" or "cast", but the rest is right.

[Mysteltain]

Updated the first page with the official lyrics for Flow, Close in the Distance, and Hic Svnt Leones, as well as the official titles for the final boss themes.

[Enkidoh]

I guess it's rather moot now but the EW end boss theme titles had been apparently leaked a few weeks ago (they were listed on the FF Wiki), but it's nice to see they were both confirmed now with the official OST's release.

Also, I'm wondering if Uematsu should get a co-composer credit on the first page for Your Answer, given it's a remix of Answers (I presume it was also using Susan Calloway's lyrics from the original recording of Answers resampled, but I wasn't sure if it was really her or if Soken had Amanda Achen record the new lyrics instead). But if he's not officially credited in the OST liner notes (I haven't got it yet so I cannot check) then there's no problem either way.

Technically The Final Day also could potentially have a Uematsu credit too, as among other things it has a partial cue to none other than Final Fantasy too if you listen closely, but maybe I'm clutching at straws with that one so don't mind me!

[Iscah]

The official lyrics for "Close in the Distance" confirm something I had suspected but it seemed a bit speculative to bring up in my previous post on the lyrics – that some of the words have a double purpose in two different lyrics.

Specifically, "I see you unbroken"/"unbroken promises" (there's even a comma suggesting the first lyric is more intended) and "no time for mourning"/"morning rises".

[Roxas33150]

Yes i can confirm it is rlly Susan Calloway who singing the song 'Your answer' Soken just did a remix

[Alpheus]

Yes i can confirm it is rlly Susan Calloway who singing the song 'Your answer' Soken just did a remix

That's good to hear, would have felt wrong otherwise personally speaking; I'm aware they didn't get her into a studio to do a new recording but given she was the voice of Hydaelyn initially all those years ago it's a nice bookend even though it was simply using a prior vocal performance.

[Carin-Eri]

Am at the point in the game where am almost entering Endwalker - I'd resisted watching the trailer/cinematic for it as didn't want to spoil anything.

But I watched it a short time ago, and dear god it blew me away.... and I have to confess this part of the song/cinematic, with the key-change:

Fearless hearts ablaze
(When the world comes crumbling down)
No more time to waste
(Know I'll be there)
No, it's not too late
(Though our fleeting moment has gone)
To forge ahead
(You're not - you're not alone YEAH)

Broke me.

[AlexionSkyllark]

Did anyone manage to piece together the lyrics of the song in 6.1 trailer?

I'm talking about the music that plays from the halfpoint of the trailer onward.
I've been trying to figure out the lyrics, but English is not my native language and it's been hard...

Someone pointed me to this topic so I guess I'd ask for help

Here's what I (tentatively) got so far (with timestamps from the trailer):

2:00 -- "____in, hand in hand _____"
2:05 -- "____ will follow (long note)"
2:28 -- "May we walk on the _______"
2:32 -- "(Remember/Forever)?, see what's inside _______ "
2:37 -- "May we fight for the _______"
2:41 -- "Must be praised, be praised, praised in song"

Also, I ran the audio for the trailer when that song is playing in an AI voice isolation app. Result is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXE...ew?usp=sharing

[Rocl]

I've learned from previous trailers that trying to decipher lyrics in them is a difficult and often unproductive process. That didn't stop me anyway.
The song starts at roughly the 1:41 mark fwiw, behind Y'shtola's voiceover. It's hard for me to make much out with the sfx and voice acting, and much of what I have matches what you've said or is near close-enough.

So I'll just list the earlier bits I hear here:

1:45 (during Endsinger) -- something high?
1:50 (during Alpha & Omega) -- one of us will carry?
1:53 (WoL looks upward) -- "when day beckons night" <-- this is one of the clearest lines, i think
2:00 (Hien amongst the Terminus) -- "hand in hand"
2:20ish (party running up the stairs) -- for Echoes spun?? ride through the moonlight??

I also definitely feel like they say something akin to "the court divine" at approx 2:30