'Last Stardust' - Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (English Cover by Sapphire)

Here's my English cover of "Last Stardust" from Fate/Stay Night (UBW)

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Original Artist(s): Aimer
Vocalist: Sapphire
Lyrics: Sapphire

Lyrics

As my dream comes to an ending,
Through this rain that’s everlasting
All I find are cold hard memories
Pale fragments of the past

Take my love
Take all I am
A price I would pay to save all I can
Grant me a single wish to finally set me free

This is my heart, my strength
Full of color, full of life
My story ends in pain
But I’ll be all right
This is the LAST STARDUST
So stand, rise up
Dust to dust, ash to ash into the night
May our dreams bring us hope for all time

Brave shine…
See your light…
Saved my life…
Your brave shine…
Brave shine…

This is my heart, my strength
Full of color, full of life
Our story ends in pain
But we'll be all right
I do this all for us
Farewell Judas
Dreams of old turn to dust and fade away

Memories come to me
Light a fire in my soul
And though my heart is weak
I choose to walk alone
This is the LAST STARDUST
So I’ll rise up
Dust to dust, ash to ash into the night
May our dreams bring us hope for all time

[TheDragonsPit]

"I am..."

"You Wouldn't."

*"The Bone of my Sword"*

[averageotaku]

"My story ends in pain, but I'll be alright" That line gave me chills it perfectly embodies Shrirou in the UBW route. This is some great stuff right here, well done!

[doctorsnakeeater]

I love this cover and how these lyrics contrast and reference the original Japanese ones.

Instead of *'My wound-riddled heart of glass relights the passion that I had started to forget/kizudarake no garasu no kokoro ga wasurekaketa netsu wo tomosu '*,

you instead localized it as

*'Memories come to me, Light a fire in my soul, And though my heart is weak, I choose to walk alone'*

Memories, forgetting, possibly referencing Archer who's strayed from his path and became jaded, forgetting most of his past, only remembering the passion he felt for how he wanted to protect others when he sees Shirou's determination. A heart of glass/a weak heart, part of Shirou's Unlimited Blade Works aria chant and referencing his fragile and twisted heart, one that has been beaten and battered time and time again. A fire in the soul, a passion, could even reference the flames that stoke the forge of the Unlimited Blade Works, the fire that spreads through the world as the Reality Marble is activated.

'I choose to walk alone'. This resounds with me the most, because in the end, Shirou will always follow his ideals and walk the path of a Hero of Justice, continuing to soldier on, even as his friends and family die, even when he ends up alone, he'll continue to try and save as many people as he can, because its what he believes is the right thing to do.

Each and every one of these lyrics is just as strong and emotional as the original ones. I absolutely love this.

God damn it I rambled about my personal feelings on Fate/Stay Night again.

[bryanwong]

After listening to this, a sudden thought popped up in my head

"Would anyone be crazy enough to travel to war zone countries like Syria or Afghanistan, not partaking in either sides of the war, but just with the sole wish to save any survivors or refugees left from the war, maybe even adopting some of the little ones and bring them to a safe haven?"

Yeah, that sounds kinda what emiya shirou would do.
You're either crazy or you're just emiya shirou to act in such way

[arthurpendragon]

Shirou Emiya : A boy, who has seen hell. His soul died a long time ago, but for the sake of humanity and his dream, he continues living without a soul.

[LordCommander-uifw]

2:45-“I do this all for us, farewell Judas.” I love this line. Shirou knows a betrayal is coming, but he keeps on going for the sake of others. I feel like his battle with Archer could be considered an analogy to the Temptation of Satan, an offer to stop before the pain begins, and a refusal to give in and abandon his ideals and he dream.

[aryot]

"That's hell you're walking into..."

[ProjectDT]

This has got to be one of my favorite versions of this song!
"My story ends in pain"
"But I'll be alright"
So damn beautiful.

[smoczystrumien]

When I heard this song, I always wondered how Emiya would look and behave after the Alter phase, after the tens or even sects of thousands of hells, like not millions. When he finally managed to fulfill his ideal, even once.

I had this idea. He'd go back to his old look. Less tan. Longer hair still white. His eyes would have gotten a golden shine back, and now his eyes would be golden white. They would lose a flash of life, free will in return. His mantle would now be white with gold and red ornaments. He would also wear a white cape with similar ornaments.

He would have succeeded in achieving his ideal, but in turn he would have become a completely nothing more than a broken machine. All his emotions and memories would be lost. The memory of his father and the memory of Saber's sumoning as well.

The only thing that would be left of these times is a glass sword cracked, brittle but a sword that will never be destroyed. It would represent the fact of becoming the sword of humanity. In it would burn the eternal fire of his will and hope, which will never be destroyed.

[Whovian]

"Even if I am a fake, this is absolutely true. For everyone to be happy... That an ideal everyone thinks of. So I won't back down. Because this dream is... There's no way my dream is a mistake!" -Emiya Shirou A beautiful cover of a beautiful song, Sapphire. <'3 I've been longing to hear this and covered in English and I love how this song beautifully capture Shirou / Archer and Kiritsugu's beliefs / ideals and as shown in your lyrics. As a fan of the Fate series, I hope there's more Fate song covers to come.

[peynnep]

Characters outside Fate I can imagen this play to


Perosna 3 Mc (Battle Against Nyx as he unlock Universe arcana)
Jonathan (as he slice of Dio's head or during his own death)
Madoka/Homura (As Homura's backstory is shown or Madoka makes her wish of the final timeline)
Subaru (Last time he have to execute Return to death for the arc)

[miguelaguilar]

My holy lord, I'm speechless. This is beatiful, from the lyrics to the singing performance. Gosh, thank you for making this happen!

[Tfbrave]

Covers like this are the reason I subscribed to you,
Sapphire, thank you, I've been going through a lot lately and i'm facing a choice that can change my life (for better or worse, I don't know yet) and listening to this and remembering this scene this song was used in- I see i'm in a extremely similar situation as shirou was, the person who set me on this path has tought me everything I know but my relationship with him was always strained at best (can you imagine what it's like to be so greatful to a person, yet utterly despise them at the same time??)
Listening to this cover and thinking back to that scence from UBW helped me realise that even if I may regret it later, the choice I'm making is what I feel is right for me and that and that even if that person believes I'm not suited for this path i'll still walk it

Thank you for everything

[Sydney_C_]

When i heard this song in english, i just realized its about shirou wanting to become a hero and that he will walk in the path full of hell and never ending pain. Its truly magnificent

[Pearlglimmer]

I know I sound selfish, but I so wished that this was a full cover. Still, I was pleasantly surprised when you first announced that you would be covering my favourite Fate song, and it came out beautifully!

[thanewolf]

For 2 years of searching of an English cover of last stardust, but my efforts were wasted. I cried in sorrow the day I couldn't find one and settled on the english translation that didn't even match the beat of the song. You brought to the world the song that i searched for so long. And I thank you for your gift to the world.

[superfiver]

I been looking for a good english cover for this, FOREVER! Here it is, after I had given up hope, months later, here it is. Funny enough, you released this the day after my birthday, so thanks for hearing my secret wish!

[kehn]

I'm so happy you covered this, it's hard to find english covers of this song. You did this song so much justice!

[klikssiikubra]

Finally an English version of this song and it's effin amazing

[JakeSmith-mqdc]

Finally, a real and actual full cover of this beautiful amazing song.Thank you, I've been searching for something like this forever now and jut about given up on ever finding something like this just a few days ago. This was awesome and so are you, remember that no matter what happens in the future, you today, have brought a major smile to my face and moved me to my core as well. :)