Don't even get me started on instrumental pieces.
Music is a funny thing. There are a couple songs that always make me tear up.
The second song from this clip is one of them. It's the final song (with vocals, ohmigosh) from the Chains of Promathia expansion set for FFXI. (I haven't even finished those missions, so who knows? Maybe it'll stop getting to me after I beat them. I kind of doubt it though.) (The first is part of the opening video.)
(I selected that video because it's completely spoiler-free, since it's, you know. A concert, and the clips they show on the screen are from the opening video or completely out of context and without words at the bottom.)
It can be a bit hard to understand, but it's supposed to sound like that, as it's sung in Esperanto, not English. (Or so Wikipedia claims...)
Distant Worlds
Seas invite in the evening sun
To light the somber abyss
Clouds dance up with the heavens' stars
Chanting an air of joyous bliss
Water fades back from blue to jade
Guiding young rainbows high
Flowers bloom into red and whites
Quenching our hearts when they run dry
Angels chained by a beast locked in slumber
Sin washed away by the swift flow of time
I may know the answers
Journeys over snow and sand
What twist in fate has brought us
To tread upon this land?
Blessed by light and the burden of shadow
Souls abide to an endless desire
I may know the answers
Though one question I still hear
What twist in fate has brought us
To roads that run so near?
Distant worlds together
Miracles from realms beyond
The lifelight burns inside me
To sing to you this song
To sing with you this song
To sing to you your song
It's a pretty song, and I don't think you'd need to be familiar with FFXI to enjoy it, though I'm not sure. Maybe it'd lose something, or maybe I'm just a nostalgia freak.
... Okay, I know I'm a nostalgia freak. QUIET.
(In other news, I also appear to have The Kingdom of San d'Oria uploaded, with no recollection of where that entry would be. SO HERE IT IS AGAIN? Edit: I found it! But I'm leaving the link, here, too, anyway.)
The second song from this clip is one of them. It's the final song (with vocals, ohmigosh) from the Chains of Promathia expansion set for FFXI. (I haven't even finished those missions, so who knows? Maybe it'll stop getting to me after I beat them. I kind of doubt it though.) (The first is part of the opening video.)
(I selected that video because it's completely spoiler-free, since it's, you know. A concert, and the clips they show on the screen are from the opening video or completely out of context and without words at the bottom.)
It can be a bit hard to understand, but it's supposed to sound like that, as it's sung in Esperanto, not English. (Or so Wikipedia claims...)
Distant Worlds
Seas invite in the evening sun
To light the somber abyss
Clouds dance up with the heavens' stars
Chanting an air of joyous bliss
Water fades back from blue to jade
Guiding young rainbows high
Flowers bloom into red and whites
Quenching our hearts when they run dry
Angels chained by a beast locked in slumber
Sin washed away by the swift flow of time
I may know the answers
Journeys over snow and sand
What twist in fate has brought us
To tread upon this land?
Blessed by light and the burden of shadow
Souls abide to an endless desire
I may know the answers
Though one question I still hear
What twist in fate has brought us
To roads that run so near?
Distant worlds together
Miracles from realms beyond
The lifelight burns inside me
To sing to you this song
To sing with you this song
To sing to you your song
It's a pretty song, and I don't think you'd need to be familiar with FFXI to enjoy it, though I'm not sure. Maybe it'd lose something, or maybe I'm just a nostalgia freak.
... Okay, I know I'm a nostalgia freak. QUIET.
(In other news, I also appear to have The Kingdom of San d'Oria uploaded, with no recollection of where that entry would be. SO HERE IT IS AGAIN? Edit: I found it! But I'm leaving the link, here, too, anyway.)