Dragonsong

"Dragonsong"

"Dragonsong" is the main theme of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. It was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Tsutomu Narita, and sung by Susan Calloway. The lyrics were written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox and Kazutoyo Maehiro.

The lyrics relate to the history of Ishgard: from the story of Hraesvelgr and Saint Shiva to the Dragonsong War.

1 Game appearances
- 1.1 Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
2 Live performances
- 2.1 Distant Worlds IV: more music from FINAL FANTASY
3 Lyrics
4 External links

Game appearances[]

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward[]

This song plays in the beginning of the final battle against Nidhogg during The Final Steps of Faith and The Minstrel's Ballad: Nidhogg's Rage trials.

It is the 55th track in Heavensward: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.

"The Heavens' Ward" is an arrangement of the song, composed by Masayoshi Soken and arranged by Kenichi Kuroda, that accompanies the eponymous Heavens' Ward.

"Contention" and "Misconception" are two other instrumental arrangements. The former was arranged by Kuroda and Soken while the latter was arranged by Ken Ito and Soken.

Live performances[]

Distant Worlds IV: more music from FINAL FANTASY[]

An orchestral arrangement performed by Distant Worlds Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus and Susan Calloway is included on this album.

Lyrics[]

Children of the land do you hear

Echoes of truths that once rang clear

Two souls intertwined

One true love they did find

Bringing land and heavens near

But flames that burned full bright soon fell dark

Memories dimmed by shadowed hearts

In the waxing gloom

Did wane the lovers' moon

Watching as their worlds drift apart.

One soul's cry

A passion welling within

Sacrifice

A final plea to her kin

Yet this bond of hope

By treachery was broke

Scattering her words to the wind

Swelling overlong

Seas of blood are a song

And death an afterthought

To those who fight for naught

A throne lying empty

A reign incomplete

Alone for eternity

A pain without cease

Children of the land answer this

Why must you turn to empty bliss

Tell me why break trust

Why turn the past to dust

Seeking solace in the abyss

Tell me why create

A circle none can break

Why must you let go

The life you were bestowed

This I fear I'll never know

Never know...

External links[]

FINAL FANTASY XIV - Dragonsong - YouTube

Final Fantasy XIV Music

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Battle themes
Artists	Composers	Masayoshi Soken - Banri Oda - Michael-Christopher Koji Fox - Tsutomu Narita - Yaeko Sato - Nobuo Uematsu
	Vocalists	Susan Calloway - Paula Kaye Gerhold - Michael-Christopher Koji Fox - Akane Ikeya - Ayumi Murata - Ashelyn Summers - Sam Carter - Amanda Achen - Jason Miller
	Groups	Eorzean Symphony - The Primals
Albums	OST	Before Meteor - A Realm Reborn - Before the Fall - Heavensward - EP Vol.1 - Heavensward - EP Vol.2 - Heavensward - EP Vol.3 - Heavensward - The Far Edge of Fate - Stormblood - Stormblood - EP - Shadowbringers - Shadowbringers - EP - Shadowbringers - EP 2 - Shadowbringers - EP 3 - Death Unto Dawn
	Compilations	Field Tracks - Battle Tracks - Eorzean Frontiers Untempered: Primal Battle Themes - Time and Again: Raid Dungeon Themes - Untempered 2: Primal Battle Themes
	Rearrangements	From Astral to Umbral - Duality ~Arrangement Album~ - Journeys ~Arrangement Album~ - Pulse: Remix Album - Scions & Sinners ~Arrangement Album~ Orchestral Arrangement Album - Eorzean Symphony: Orchestral Album - Orchestral Arrangement Album Vol.2 - Eorzean Symphony: Orchestral Album Vol.2 The Primals - The Primals: Zepp Tour 2018 - Trial By Shadow - The Primals: Out of the Shadows
Musical themes	Before Meteor	"Prelude - Remembrance" - "Primal Judgment" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
	A Realm Reborn	"Prelude - Rebirth" - "Torn from the Heavens" - "Prelude - Discoveries" - "The Land Breathes" - "Under the Weight" - "Through the Gloom" - "Hubris" - "Tumbling Down" - "Penitus" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Ultima" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Battle on the Big Bridge" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Now I Know the Truth" - "Out of the Labyrinth" - "Oblivion" - "Magiteknical Difficulties" - "Blind to the Dark" - "The Reach of Darkness" - "Eternal Wind"
	Heavensward	"Heavensward" - "A Cold Wind" - "Solid" - "Melt" - "Unbending Steel" - "The Mushroomery" - "Dragonsong" - "Locus" - "Metal" - "Fiend" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Rise" - "Battle to the Death - Heavensward" - "Equilibrium"
	Stormblood	"Storm of Blood" - "Prelude - Long March Home" - "The Measure of Our Reach" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "Revolutions" - "Omega²" - "Decisions" - "Final, Not Final" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Amatsu Kaze" - "A Battle Decisively" - "Dancing Mad" - "Wayward Daughter" - "eScape" - "Sunrise"
	Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "Four-fold Knowing" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Civilizations" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "A Long Fall" - "Return to Oblivion" - "To the Edge" - "In the Arms of War" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
	Endwalker	"Endwalker"

Musical themes

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call

Recurring themes	Airship theme - "Battle at the Big Bridge" - List of battle themes (Battle theme · Boss theme · Final boss theme) - "Chocobo Theme" - Dungeon theme - Ending theme - "Final Fantasy" - "Good Night" - Main theme - "Moogle Theme" - "Prelude" - Town theme - Victory Fanfare

Game specific themes

Final Fantasy	"Main Theme" - "Battle" - "Chaos Shrine" - "Matoya's Cave" - "Mt. Gulg"
Final Fantasy II	"Battle Theme 1" - "The Rebel Army" - "Main Theme" - "Battle Theme 2" - "Tower of the Magi" - "Finale"
Final Fantasy III	"The Altar Cave" - "Battle 1" - "Eternal Wind" - "Tozus" - "Battle 2" - "The Boundless Ocean" - "Priestess Aria" - "Doga and Unei" - "The Crystal Tower" - "The Dark Crystals" - "Last Battle"
Final Fantasy IV	"Theme of Love" - "Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY IV" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Rydia" - "Edward's Harp" - "Mystic Mysidia" - "Battle With the Four Fiends" - "Troian Beauty" - "Dancing Calbrena" - "The Final Battle"
Final Fantasy V	"Main Theme of Final Fantasy V" - "Lenna's Theme" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Mambo de Chocobo" - "Sorrows of Parting" - "Home, Sweet Home" - "Music Box" - "The Evil Lord X-Death" - "Legend of the Deep Forest" - "A New World" - "The Final Battle" - "Dear Friends" - "Ending Theme"
Final Fantasy VI	"Battle" - "The Decisive Battle" - "Terra's Theme" - "Celes's Theme" - "Kefka" - "The Phantom Forest" - "Kids Run Through the City" - "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" - "Relm's Theme" - "Battle to the Death" - "Searching for Friends" - "Dancing Mad"
Final Fantasy VII series	Final Fantasy VII	"Opening - Bombing Mission" - "Anxiety" - "Let the Battles Begin!" - "Tifa's Theme" - "Fight On!" - "Turks' Theme" - "Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII" - "Farm Boy" - "Descendant of Shinobi" - "JENOVA" - "Cosmo Canyon" - "Aerith's Theme" - "One-Winged Angel"
	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	"Calling" - "Safe and Sound" - "The Promised Land"
	Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-	"Redemption" - "Longing"
	Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-	"Theme of Elfe"
	Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-	"CRISIS CORE Theme" - "The Price of Freedom" - "Why"
	Final Fantasy VII Remake	"Hollow"
Final Fantasy VIII	"Liberi Fatali" - "Balamb GARDEN" - "Blue Fields" - "Don't Be Afraid" - "Force Your Way" - "The Man with the Machine Gun" - "Premonition" - "Fisherman's Horizon" - "The Oath" - "Eyes on Me" - "The Castle" - "Maybe I'm a Lion" - "Ride On" - "The Extreme"
Final Fantasy IX	"A Place to Call Home" - "Vamo Alla Flamenco" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Festival of the Hunt" - "Kuja's Theme" - "Roses of May" - "Unrequited Love" - "Not Alone" - "The Final Battle"- "Melodies of Life"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X	"Zanarkand" - "Tidus's Theme" - "Otherworld" - "Battle Theme" - "Hymn of the Fayth" - "Thunder Plains" - "Assault" - "Via Purifico" - "Suteki da ne" - "Fight With Seymour" - "A Contest of Aeons" - "Final Battle"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X-2	"KUON: Memories of Waves and Light" - "Real Emotion" - "Yuna's Ballad" - "1000 Words" - "Their Resting Place"
Final Fantasy XI	"Memoro de la Ŝtono" - "Vana'diel March" - "Ronfaure" - "Battle Theme" - "Gustaberg" - "Rolanberry Fields" - "Voyager" - "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno" - "Battle In The Dungeon #2" - "Mog House" - "Awakening" - "The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" - "Fighters of the Crystal" - "Faded Memories - Promyvion" - "Distant Worlds" - "Griffons Never Die" - "Ragnarok" - "Forever Today" - "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel"
Final Fantasy XII	"Opening Movie [FFXII Theme]" - "Boss Battle" - "The Dalmasca Estersand" - "Giza Plains" - "The Archadian Empire" - "Struggle for Freedom" - "Kiss me Good-Bye"
Lightning Saga	Final Fantasy XIII	"FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Promise" - "Blinded By Light" - "Saber's Edge" - "Ragnarok" - "Eternal Love" - "March of the Dreadnoughts" - "Fighting Fate" - "Fang's Theme" - "Gapra Whitewood" - "Will to Fight" - "Sulyya Springs" - "Dust to Dust" - "Born Anew" - "Nascent Requiem" - "Kimi ga Iru Kara" - "My Hands"
	Final Fantasy XIII-2	"FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - Wishes -" - "Paradox" - "Etro's Champion" - "Noel's Theme" - "The Last Hunter" - "Caius's Theme" - "Yeul's Theme" - "New Bodhum" - "Worlds Collide - "Unseen Intruder" - "Eclipse" - "Village and Void" - "Limit Break!" - "Plains of Eternity" - "New World"
	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	"Almighty Bhunivelze" - "Crimson Blitz" - "Divine Love" - "Noel's Theme ~The Shadow Hunter~" - "Noel & Yeul ~The Promise~" - "Savior of Souls" - "Desert Lullaby"
Final Fantasy XIV	Before Meteor	"Primal Judgment" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
	A Realm Reborn	"Torn from the Heavens" - "The Land Breathes" - "Under the Weight" - "Through the Gloom" - "Hubris" - "Tumbling Down" - "Penitus" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Ultima" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Battle on the Big Bridge" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Now I Know the Truth" - "Out of the Labyrinth" - "Oblivion" - "Magiteknical Difficulties" - "Blind to the Dark" - "The Reach of Darkness" - "Eternal Wind"
	Heavensward	"Heavensward" - "Solid" - "Melt" - "Unbending Steel" - "The Mushroomery" - "Dragonsong" - "Locus" - "Metal" - "Fiend" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Rise" - "Battle to the Death - Heavensward" - "Equilibrium"
	Stormblood	"Storm of Blood" - "The Measure of Our Reach" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "Revolutions" - "Omega²" - "Decisions" - "Final, Not Final" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Amatsu Kaze" - "A Battle Decisively" - "Dancing Mad" - "Wayward Daughter" - "eScape" - "Sunrise"
	Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "Return to Oblivion" - "To the Edge" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
	Final Fantasy XIV battle themes
Final Fantasy XV	"Somnus" - "Stand By Me" - "Too Much Is Never Enough" - "I Will Be" - "Choosing Hope" - "Calling for Rain" - "Apocalypsis Noctis" - "Magna Insomnia" - "Conditioned to Hate"
Final Fantasy Tactics	"Hero's Theme"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	"Main Theme" - "Teach Me, Mont Blanc" - "Shiroi Hana"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift	"Summer Vacation"
Type series	Final Fantasy Type-0	"The Beginning of the End" - "Tempus Finis" - "Vermilion Fire" - "Zero" - "Colorful - Falling in Love" - "Utakata"
Type series	Final Fantasy Agito	"FINAL FANTASY AGITO" - "FINAL FANTASY AGITO The Beginning of the End" - "Forbidden Fruit" - "My Diamond"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	"Sound of the Wind" - "Moonless Starry Night"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers	"Kuule tää unelmain"
Dissidia series	Dissidia Final Fantasy	"DISSIDIA" - "The Messenger" - "Cosmos" - "Chaos"
Dissidia series	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	"Cantata Mortis & God in Fire"
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call	"THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL Special Arrange Medley"
Final Fantasy Dimensions II	"Timeless Tomorrow"
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius	"DUEL!!" - "Touch It - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Remix" - "Immortal Flame"
World of Final Fantasy	"Innocent²" "Silent World" - "World Parade"