Echoes of Life - A Mass Effect 2 Fanmix
cover art is credited to the incredible rocketchick
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So, this is the first time I've attempted something like this. Although most of the music didn't give me any particular trouble, a few characters absolutely refused to cooperate. And it became apparent that there would be far too much to squeeze into one mix anyway. So hopefully, this will just be volume one. I started by searching for simple character themes, but began finding an increasing number of what I call relationship themes - songs that describe interaction between two characters. I realized when I set them all down that all of them were directed to Shepard, but I hope eventually to compile a few from her point of view. Enjoy my little corner of the Mass Effect universe!
Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin (Commander Shepard)
They fall in line
One at a time
Ready to play
(I can't see them anyway)
No time to lose
We've got to move
Steady your hand
(I am losing sight again)
Fire your guns
It's time to run
Blow me away
(I will stay in the mess I've made)
After the fall
We'll shake it off
Show me the way
Only the strongest will survive
Lead me to heaven when we die
I am a shadow on the wall
I'll be the one to save us all
What I've Done - Linkin Park (Mordin Solus)
In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies
So let mercy come
And wash away
What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done
Rule the World - Kamelot (Jack/Subject Zero)
When a new day reaches dawn
I feel it's worth the wait
But I tumble and I fall
When up against my fate
When the barricades come down
I build them up again
When I'm just about to drown
I still don't know the end
Sometimes I tremble
Like a little child
That faces morning
With a broken smile
Sometimes I crumble
When the shades unfurl
Sometimes I feel that
I could rule the world
Hand of Sorrow - Within Temptation (Thane Krios)
The child without a name grew up to be the hand
To watch you, to shield you, or kill on demand
The choice he'd made he could not comprehend
His blood a grim secret they had to commend
He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life
He prayed for both but was denied
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind
So many years have passed, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
Won't Back Down - Fuel (Zaeed Massani)
I know what darkness means
(and the void you left for me)
The isolation stings
(so I think it wants to bleed)
The echoes in my brain
(of the things you said to me)
You took my everything
Now I'm coming for you!
I won't back down
I will not bow
(I've come to bring you hell)
I can't forget
Things you did
(I've come to bring you hell)
Remember - Josh Groban (Ashley Williams)
Remember, I will still be here
As long as you hold me in your memory
Remember, when your dreams have ended
Time can be transcended
Just remember me
I am the one star that keeps burning so brightly
It is the last light to fade into the rising sun
I'm with you whenver you tell my story
For I am all I've done
Remember, I will still be here
As long as you hold me in your memory
Remember me
Sleepwalker - Nightwish (Morinth)
Close your eyes
Feel the ocean where passion lies
Silently the senses
Abandon all defenses
A place between sleep and awake
End of innocence, unending masquerade
That's where I'll wait for you
Hold me near you
So closely, sear you
Seeing, believing
Dreaming, deceiving
A place between sleep and awake
End of innocence, unending masquerade
That's where I'll wait for you
After All - Delerium (Kaidan and Shepard)
She knows the voices in her mind
They tell her to leave
She's tired of smiling madly
Until silence becomes very silently
A noise in her mind
After all she's got nothing inside
No good to give
No meaning to live
The mist engulfed tonight
Every single star
After all they shared
How could he simply say no
After all they shared
He turned away from her to go
She said she wouldn't cry
That was really just a lie
If I Die Tomorrow - Motley Crux (Thane to Shepard)
I wake up to find myself
After all these years
And where all the time has gone
Still seems so unclear
'Cause there's no one else
Since I found you
I know it's been so hard
You should know
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
You're my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
Without You - Breaking Benjamin (Garrus to Shepard)
Search for the answers I knew all along
I lost myself, we all fall down
Never the wiser of what I've become
Alone I stand, a broken man
All I have is one last chance
I won't turn my back on you
Take my hand, drag me down
If you fall then I will too
And I can't save what's left of you
Sing something new, I've nothing left
I can't face the dark without you
There's nothing left to lose, the fight never ends
I can't face the dark without you
M4 Part 2 - Faunts (Liara to Shepard)
I have wondered about you
Where will you be when this through
If all goes as planned
Will you redeem my life again?
And I need you to recover
Because I can’t make it on my own
And I need you to recover
Because I can’t make it on my own
Running Blind - Tatu (Legion to Shepard)
Fading, slowly
You're drifting into darkness
I can't see I can't think
I need to keep on searching
Every memory
Every thought of you
Is inside of me
Tells me what to do
Calling your name I hear only echoes
Searching the rain I see only shadows
You've got to show me your face
Voices I hear them calling behind me
Phantoms of you are burning inside me
You've got to give me a sign
Never Let Go - Bryan Adams (Crew of the Normandy)
Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live?
Can you take what you need, but take less than you give?
Could you close every day, without the glory and fame?
Could you hold your head high, when no one knows your name?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say
We say goodbye, but never let go
We live, we die, cause you can't save every soul
Gotta take every chance to
Show that you're the kind of man who
Will never look back, never look down
And never let go
