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Do A Plague Tale next
an empty hearth down by the sea. 🙁
lyrics are in almost every single boss theme in FFXIV actually, at least in one of the boss' phases.
love your content btw, been watching for like 2 years now, back before the name change <3
FFXIV is quite the can of worms music wise. SOOO much stuff to unpack and loads of tracks.
They also like to play around with motifs. You can find references to many other tracks in one song.
Always nice to see someone going over it
You should do Dragon's Dogma Main menu theme "Into Free". It sounds like a legit anime opening
my favorite song in FFXIV
Sophia song portraits quite the tragic tale: Koji Fox, the lyrics writer for Equilibrium, said it was about a girl whose father died in a battle against the Allagans. Her mother started beating her in grief and the girl prayed to Sophia.
Sophia told her that balance in her family was broken and she must kill her mother… so she did. But then Sophia told her balance was still off and she must kill herself… so she did.
Lyrics:
The sigh of the shifting sea
The kiss of the salt-sweet breeze
The white of her silken dress stained in red
A memory fading fast
Her mother sits, eyes downcast
A torn uniform in hand, farewells unsaid
That once a certainty, lost in grief
A daughter's desperate cries, unheard pleas
Forsaken, beaten, tried, on her knees
A prayer passes from her lips
Into her soul, the Goddess whispers:
"A heartbeat without harmony
Is moonlight without dark
The heart seeketh equilibrium
With balance will your worry part.
So still this broken melody
And therewith shoulder thee
One last step only leaving
An empty hearth down by the sea
An empty hearth down by the sea"
need more final fantasy xiv songs
not being irony we have nier songs within final fantasy xiv heheh
Final fantasy have many materpieces
a lot of ffxiv boss themes have lyrics its pretty cool
Heyy I'm glad you really enjoyed it !! @AtlasBenighted
And many thanks for the reaction to this track too!
There's actually a DOZENNN of tracks that have their own stories and own specialities that make them unique and stand out from the rest and each other, I genuinely think Masayoshi Soken is definitely Nobuo Uematsu's successor cause what a phenomenal track record he's been pumping out nonstop, and even if you had to compare he's "least" favourited ones they all stand for their own.
For another fun fact, if I believe correct the guy was fighting cancer and composed one of the tracks in around Shadowbringers – Endwalker, and most likely even the newest FF16, what an absolute legend and he still delivers it on a golden platter, so much praise and love for him.
A full transcript of the lyrics was shown at Fanfest Las Vegas 2016. According to Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, the lyrics describe a Meracydian family torn apart by war against the Allagans and Sophia's brand of "justice" and "balance": after the father is slain in battle by the Allagans ("A torn uniform in hand, farewells unsaid"), the mother becomes abusive ("Forsaken, beaten, tried, on her knees") and, at Sophia's request, the daughter murders the mother to restore the imbalance created by her father's death ("The heart seeketh equilibrium / With balance will your worry part"), and then commits suicide, punishing herself for murder and leaving their home empty and forgotten ("And therewith shoulder thee / One last step only leaving / An empty hearth down by the sea").
Music like this is quite typical for FFXIV, including battles and raids. The whole library of music for the game is exceptional.
I can understand not being able to get into the game but the story is just so good.. it’s a bit grindy and slow paced in a realm reborn but once you get into heavensward and beyond it’s just an emotional action packed cruise that has godtier music! Even if you didn’t experience the game it’s still great to see you experience a big part of what gives it its soul! The music!