I've attended a number of recording sessions over the years, but this honestly was the first time I had to fight back tears while listening in. I hope everyone else is as moved by the song as I was.
Nobuo Uematsu
"Choosing Hope" is the main theme of Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, the multiplayer expansion of Final Fantasy XV. It is composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Tsutomu Narita, and sung by Emiko Suzuki.
Uematsu thought that a gospel sound would befit Comrades, and "Choosing Hope" was written with a swing rhythm Suzuki had sung before in gospel music. The lyrics describe the state of the world during Comrades, which takes place after Noctis departs Lucis and the world plunges further and further into darkness. The former members of Kingsglaive (the player characters) try to protect the populace until the coming of the True King. It speaks of keeping hope alive in trying times, the people needing to persevere.
The theme is playable in the music player.
Lyrics[]
- Battle-scarred down to the bone
- Falling, failing to believe
- Living in so much despair
- With no hope of release
- Was I born to be betrayed?
- Was I born to simply die?
- Can I bear to seek the truth
- When it feels like a lie?
- Into the darkness we will fly
- Soaring above our fears
- Praying this world will survive
- Fighting and striving for the light
- Living life knowing that we must die
- Loving until the end
- Choosing hope when all hope has seemed lost
- And believing in the strength of our friends
- If the Oracle can heal
- If the plague can be removed
- And the darkness overcome
- Then I'll carry on, too
- Must I live to sacrifice?
- Must I die to make things right?
- Do I dare believe in hope
- When surrounded by night?
- Into the darkness we will fly
- Soaring above our fears
- Praying this world will survive
- Fighting and striving for the light
- Living life knowing that we must die
- Loving until the end
- Choosing hope when all hope has seemed lost
- And believing in the strength of our friends
- We fought even the fiercest of foes
- Strong against all the odds
- Giving our all when friends needed us most
- Without ever counting the cost
- I chose hope when all hope had seemed lost
- And I believed in the strength of my friends
