"Shadowbringers" is the main theme of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers, composed by Masayoshi Soken and lyrics written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, with vocals by Amanda Achen-Keenan and Jason Charles Miller. It plays in the opening trailer and during the first phase of the final boss fight.
Game appearances[edit | edit source]
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers[edit | edit source]
The full version of "Shadowbringers" plays in the opening trailer. It features the opening refrain of "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and a bridge based on "Eternal Wind" from Final Fantasy III.
It is the thirty-seventh track in Shadowbringers: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.
A condensed version of "Shadowbringers" called "Who Brings Shadow" is used in the first phase of the final boss battle against Hades in The Dying Gasp, with the "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and "Eternal Wind" segments cropped out.
Rearrangements of "Shadowbringers" serve as the main dungeon boss theme ("Insatiable") and the boss theme for the battle against Innocence ("Insanity").
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
- For whom weeps the storm,
- Her tears on our skin
- The days of our years gone,
- Our souls soaked in sin
- These memories ache with the weight of tomorrow
- Who fights?
- Who flies?
- Who falls?
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- Two-toned echoes tumbling through time
- Threescore wasted, ten cast aside
- Four-fold knowing, no end in sight
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- One dark future no one survives
- On their shadows, away we fly
- The road that we walk
- Is lost in the flood
- Here proud angels bathe in
- Their wages of blood
- At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- To this riddle all souls are tied
- Brief our moments, brazen and bright
- Forged in fury, tempered in ice
- Hindmost devils, early to rise
- Sing come twilight, sleep when they die
- Heaven's banquet leavened with lies
- Sating honor, envy, and pride
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- Run from the light
- Authors of our fates
- Orchestrate our fall from grace
- Poorest players on the stage
- Our defiance drives us straight to the edge
- A reflection in the glass
- Recollections of our past
- Swift as darkness, cold as ash
- Far beyond this dream of paradise lost
- Home
- Riding home
- Dying hope
- Hold onto hope... Ohhh...
- Home
- Riding home
- Home, riding home
- Hope, finding hope... Ohhh...
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- One more chapter we've yet to write
- Want for nothing, nothing denied
- Wand'ring ended, futures aligned
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- One brings shadow, one brings light
- You are the light
- We fall
- We fall
- We fall
- We fall unto the end
- One world's end
- Our world's end
- Our end
- We won't end
- I am shadow, I am the light
