'To The Edge' with Official Lyrics (Seat of Sacrifice Theme) | Final Fantasy XIV

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The official lyrics are out! Instead of adding annoying annotations to the old video, here's a new one. To The Edge is written by Masayoshi Soken and is a reprisal of "Shadowbringers" and "Neath the Waters".

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[RedsHitpostMedia]

When you fight the protagonist from a story that isnt yours...

[InbetweenGamer]

Producing this song while in hospital fighting cancer. Soken is a Legend.

[SilverJakler]

Fun Fact: The person providing the vocals is Jason Charles Miller, the original English voice actor for Raubahn (from ARR)!

[nicotoa]

"Like broken angels, wingless, casts from heaven's gate."

"No more men shall have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk."

[KaiIzuki]

We're all here because of a certain bard, who wrote this in the hospital.

[sparthyslaysstuff]

Elidibus wasn't the only one expending four limit bars when pushed to the edge. #welcomebacksoken

[PluPerfective]

Coming back after patch 6.4 really makes the story come full circle. What Elidibus could have been.

[RoyWirapati]

To think that Soken produced this song on hospital bed while fighting cancer... This brings more emotion to this song.

[ojisankusai]

"The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day...
...but you are not here to see it."

[shaniatreyu]

"Only alive in fighting death's amber embrace." Azem's star crystal is amber colored. Elidibus called the WoL the personification of death. Sweet mercy the references.

[VelouriaRavensworn]

Soken made this while he was in the hospital with cancer... I'm speechless... We're blessed to have the XIV development team.

[darkchris]

As someone who played the series since the 1st game, it was such a massive shock that Elidibus transformed into the first hero and still is to this day. It was all beautiful.

[amsaa]

The portrayal of Elidibus is something I still love; he was always seen as kinda the leader of the Ascians or at least the most powerful while being the only white robed one, but now we know that spot was probably Emet-Selch’s, while Elidibus was their hero and their martyr; in a way Emet felt bad about him; the young Elidibus sacrificed his life and now he was bound to his duty for all eternity.

He knew that after his death Elidibus would have no way of ever remembering what they were fighting for (even if Eli himself didn’t want to remember) so that’s why he chose to give you the means to kill him and finally put him to rest. So that in a way, his duty would end and all the ascians would see each other again in the afterlife like he wanted, just not how he wanted.

The part where Emet helps you breaks me, because Elidibus reaches out to him, only to be received by his farewell, realizing he’s truly alone in his fight, but of course that doesn’t break him and he calls for the warriors of light to continue the fight, because he’s will incarnate and will never give up. Which is another reason why Emet knew the only way to stop him was to kill him.

[pigfish]

The ascians had sunk too much into their failing scheme, and thus Elidibus was the only one left, who was basically a robot running on a preset program; rejoin the shards.

He not only realizes this, but also knows that he is the only one left.

This was a mercy kill.

[justinland]

I don't think it's hyperbolic to say Masayoshi Soken is one of the greatest composers of our time.

[jacobposey]

I feel so stupid. For as long as Shadowbringers has been out I just now noticed the literal countdown in the whispers. One brings shadow. Two toned echoes. Threescore wasted. Four-fold knowing. I am disappointed
in myself.

[jericm]

This song now hits like an unmitigated tank buster to my feels.

[Raptor]

"One brings shadow, one brings the light; two-toned echoes tumbling through time."
I love how the meaning of this line changes the further you get into Shadowbringers. Originally, you are the Warrior of Light, and the Ascians are beings of shadow. But in the First, you become the Warrior of Darkness, saving that world from the Flood of Light. When you fight Hades, it is quite literally your Light against his Shadow. And now, in the dirge of the last true Amaurotian, you remain the Warrior of Light fighting against THE Warrior of Light, the originator of the very idea of the Warrior of Light.

"In the rain do darkness and light fade."
This final battle isn't between Light and Dark--it's about a tragedy, about people who suffered immensely, who lost everything, and desperately yearn to save/restore what they had lost. Defeating Elidibus here would have been seen as a triumph back in Stormblood, ending the last of the Paragons. But now, it's not so much a victory as it is a funeral for a loss so great that it's difficult to imagine.

[Sylfposts]

"To begin, we must first see the end."

This hits SO HARD after Endwalker on so many levels.

[zenryokai]

To this day To The Edge is still one of my favorite pieces from him and the fact that he wrote it (and many other songs) while battling cancer in the hospital says a lot about how much he loves what he does and how passionate he is for Final Fantasy.
Thank you so much Soken <3