'eScape' with Official Lyrics (Omega Theme) | Final Fantasy XIV

Chicken tenders are ready to fry!

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[HazardSJ]

Like a lot of FFXIV enemies, the song compliments the enemy you fight. In this case Omega's song does so beautifully. The song 'eScape', is both a call towards how Omega itself wants to return home, escape to his star essentially and the lyrics tell of its story. The way I like to interpret it is as follows:

It is a 'ship, ' one designed to seek strong enemies and in the course of its chase of Midgardsormr, it became a 'drifting tender, ' after suffering damage it could no longer communicate back to its star thus becoming a 'Galleon severed.'

'Stormheads gathers, ' could also reflect how it suffered electrical damage during its travels as well as its own doubts, thus when it desperately wanted to go back home, a futile endeavour, it decided it couldn't thus, 'illusions scattered.'

The entire next fast spoken bit is a reference to how once it landed on our star, it simply waited in hibernation mode, watching or sensing civilisations come and go, most likely referring to the many calamities. It's next piece: 'Hark the heralds, anchors aweigh! Hither happens mine escape, ' refers to the fact when we awoke it to fight Shinryu. 'Freedom forgone, sinking apace. Comets crumble, Phoebus fades, ' this refers to when Shinryu's prison began to decay (moon falling) and thus Omega prepares to fight. 'Under cosmic clamor decayed, hides a path untaken, ' is about how its fight against Shinryu will be the next big step in achieving its main directive of finding a strong enemy, but unfortunately it suffers during the fight, so it must instead retreat to its Interdimensional Rift.

The next part comes with, 'ancient echoes, in deafening silence, ' referring to Shinryu's sudden defeat at our hands silencing the 'ancient' cries of Ala Mhigo. Following this immediately is 'a wave of hazard, a-whorling inward, ' referring to us approaching its domain to deal with it. We ARE the hazard presented to Omega and thus a chance to achieve its main directive.

The second fast spoken section following is a description about the challenges it brings against us, the 'Stellar stories, starward bestrewn, ' refers to how they throw at us 'stories' of other games and their bosses to test us, but we as 'slipping sideways, see, they're snakes, ' somehow managed to overcome their probability of odds. 'Twixt the leaves you'll find naught amiss—missing aughts and crossing fates, ' details how it keeps calculating odds of us surviving, but somehow we keep surviving but still within bounds. 'Freedom surgent shifting ahead, comets dancing in her wake To the cosmic clarion's accord, along the path not taken, ' is about how it seems to think we may be the next step towards its 'evolution' in order to escape our star and return home, after our victories has 'comets dancing in her wake' referring to the star singing our praises.

The final bit is about how they try to kill us and fight us. 'Try, dare the dead tread ahead on a road that is borrowed, Design, through the sum of their sons do they seek tomorrow, ' is how they think our power is only limited and 'borrowed' as far as we wish to depending on threat, and thus Omega attempts to see our true peak, only to be stopped by Midgardsormr, who is our 'sum of their sons' referring to the legacy of our star. 'Tonight, witness then as the end shall begin what was final, Their lies, folding back, further back, ever back to the primal, ' finally we come to the climax, it finally catches up to the present, we are here and ready to fight against Omega, we have given them all the data and told them what they lack is a 'heart', a human like essence that no machine can really replicate with data alone. To Omega this is a 'lie', one which it doesn't understand in its current form and thus only by reverting to its 'Primal' or 'primitive' form can it truly comprehend, thus instead fighting as it is.

[Galeforce]

This is now another reason for Clive to freak out when he visits Eorzea.

[esthiem]

Omega: *uses Larboard Wave Cannon*
Me: Okay, I'll just run to the opposite sid-
Omega: *spins around*
Me: Wait, that's illegal

[shingshongshamalama]

I love how much those incredibly dense chorus lines look downright impossible at first, but the rhythm of them is such that once you memorize the words, they just flow off the tongue.

[Nyansyn]

"Omega play romantic music"

Omega: "Chicken tenders!"

[DynoSkrimisher]

2000: *Drifts* DO YOU LIKE. MAH CAAAR?!?!

2021: _A DRIFTING COME RIDE HEROES

[kzorander]

I'm just now realizing how much of a masterpiece A Long Fall is, Holy shit.

[stallionsLP]

It's funny how much Omega essentially is the reason everything from 2.X onward happen, because its existence is what led to THAT moment before Heavensward because it's the main reason that merchant potato caused such problems, and it's also the reason why we even travel outside of Eorzea in Stormblood to begin with.

[Konpekikaminari]

I absolutely adore the lightning fast alliterations in this song

[belzabub]

there's just nothing i love more than the fact that they used sea-faring language and phrasing for this song - it really makes me a little emotional thinking of Omega lost 'at sea' all that long lonely time

[_r._]

A chicken tender
With sauce on the side
A gallon soda
Please make it a Sprite
And I want dessert
I’d like apple pie

[SicilianFiraga]

Glad to hear this in Expert Roulette now

[Sky-CladObserver]

It took me until just now to notice the brilliant wordplay of "eScape".

[BiggieT]

Lebron James reportedly walked left for Larboard Wave Cannon

[Evnyofdeath]

Me a month ago: "Yeah, headbang to everything!"

Me now: "This is fine ;-;"

[DodderingOldMan]

I love, love, LOVE the way the chorus has that weird split with the two voices, with the last word of each line being left to slot into the next phrase for the next voice. It's the fascinating little intricacies like this that lift FFXIV music above not only other game music, but above pretty much all music.

[monsterfurby]

In the context of Endwalker, this song makes me wonder what plot elements were planned and in place at what point. FFXIV sometimes feels like a very well improvised story, but this is one of the instances where they had to know they were going to dive deeper into the topic of Omega's origin later.

[alittlebirdi]

Is it weird that I choked up when Omega discovered Dynamis? lol

[ryudhal]

Holy shit, this song has gotta be the song with the most foreshadowing in this game lmao. First Shadowbringers, and now Endwalker reveals more and explains the title of the song.

[kaileenabonaduce]

It's crazy looking back on this series that Omega used its universal construction technology to basically create a new Stigma node for the data processing necessary to run its simulations.