'Answers' with Official Lyrics (ARR Main Theme Song) | Final Fantasy XIV

[Halifax]

This song when I started playing: This is nice
This song after finishing Endwalker: MAH HEART HURTS

[abitamez]

No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise!

[RXCustom]

After going through Arr till the end of endwalker just wow the meaning of the song was just crazy

[cryssanie]

Listening to Answers after finishing ARR: ok, this is a pretty epic song, cool
Listening to Answers after finishing Endwalker: *sobs uncontrollably*

[reloadpsi]

I know Endwalker reveals a deeper meaning to these lyrics, but I always found the sentiment of "you've got your life, live your best one in honour of those behind you and the sake of those after you" fairly straightforward to begin with. It's the most elaborate "you got this, soldier" I've ever heard.

[krayte]

Can we talk about just how badass Louisoix is? The guy sacrificed himself to both shatter a planet destroying meteor, and one shot Bahamut simultaneously, after saving the Warrior of Light. What a legend

[chase]

"Tell us why given life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries"

"Thy life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow"

"In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die, and know"

I'm astounded. Bravo Square. Endwalker and the Hydaelyn-Zodiark arc are masterpieces.

[tyduswow]

This song turns me into a full dynamis despair blasphemy and at the same time gives me hope for my own existence and purpose. I have ascended. A Masterpiece of emotional art.

[chaosforged]

"Thou must live, die, and know" Venat's words when she sundered everything...Geez, there is so much to unpack with that, both hope and menace at the same time.

[SilvarusLupus]

**song starts playing at key moments** NO STOP WAIT MY FEELS!

[TheNN]

*What I remember about the fall of Dalamud, is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of Operation: Meteor, our Free Company was discreetly transferred back to Carteneau. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts we'd survive, any private thoughts of running? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the Aetheryte trip, not when the order to charge came down, and not when we saw Bahamut break free. Not a word.* - Unknown

Edit: I posted this comment after a spark of inspiration, shortly after beating the Coils of Bahamut raid series, finding out the truth about what happened. I'd only been playing the game a couple months up to that point, and since then I've long beaten Endwalker. My only regret: Not playing it sooner.

Happy 10th anniversary, FFXIV.

[rayvk]

Having just recently lost my mom to cancer, this song hits on an entire new level.
To live is to suffer, but to suffer is to live.
Rest well mom, see you in the ethereal sea.

[scrapox]

This is without a doubt Nobuo Uematsus magnum opus. I cannot help but get chocked up whenever the power balad part starts up. It just leaves me utterly entranced the whole way through every time I listen to it.

[maxjpz]

As someone who just ended ARR, this song hits HARD. And reading the comments, I'm gonna get hit HARDER later down the line, so... BRING IT ON, HEAVENSWARD!!

[zixserro]

It's so nuts how there's absolutely no way they had everything planned out for what Hydaelyn's ultimate goal was when they wrote this song, meaning it's entirely possible that her entire reason for doing what she did for the reasons that she did it were reverse-engineered based on the lyrics of this song just to make it that much more impactful when it's actually revealed.

[ninja_sloth]

ARR: woah cool song. war sucks.
ShB: oh my god I finally understand the lyrics.
EW: OH MY GOD STOP, MY FUCKING HEART

[AlunKahul]

I love the new meaning this song takes after Endwalker. Meteion wanted to know why we live. And why is that life destined to have strife. Venat’s answer is that the strife is what makes life worth living. If we don’t get sad/angry how can we know when we are happy. Something that does not just apply to our characters, but in real life as well.

[taco_sensei]

*EDIT: Spoilers for the MSQ of FFXIV*

She gave us a hint. "Hear, feel, think".
She knew we could only defeat Meteion if we struggled, yet collected memories of the hopes of the people of Etheirys by hearing their words, share their feelings and know their thoughts. Hear, feel think she told us when sending us on our journey.

Meteion asked every civilization these questions: " I want to hear your words, share your feelings, know your thoughts."

Hear, feel, think.

Bloody genius.

[vespi]

Only after playing Endwalker did I finally understood the lyrics. Brings tears to my eyes almost every time now, especially the final verse, and it's final lyrics: "In the same fleeting moment, Thou must Live, Die, And know." It sums up ones life perfectly. Our lives are but a fleeting moment, and in that fleeting moment, we must live and die, and know the answer to the question

[ruebuh]

This is THE version of the song. I Like them all: That Chinese live version; the anniversary concert; the Distant worlds one; the in game version; the like 5 most viewed covers. But this is the greatest imo