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

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

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

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

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

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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!!

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

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

These lyrics have ALWAYS permeated the entirety of FF14. The story has always been about the struggle to live, and finding reasons for doing so. A core theme of the game primarily deals with the fight against authoritarian forces from the Imperials to Ishgard's diocese to the Monetarists, the drive to fight for a better world instead of rolling over and accepting a present that might be safer for you personally but one that both robs you of true agency and endangers those less fortunate than you. In all of these cases the player is constantly challenged by people who are suffering from complacency, whether you're trying to convince the Monetarists to accept refugees or the people of Yangxia to rise up and fight. Even the Tribes go with this theme, as Primals undoubtedly make their lives WORSE but often represent a comparatively simple solution to the colonialism of the City States. ShB pushes this up a notch by actually demanding that YOU make this choice too. Emet Selch offers you a place at his side in what would be a genuinely utopian new world, offers to essentially make you an honorary member of what is quantifiably a superior race. The player is expected to reject this, not because he's wrong - by all metrics the Ancients were just a more ideal existence - but because we're being asked to value all life, to not join him in appointing ourselves as a judge of who deserves life and who doesn't, to value the diversity of existences and experiences and cultures as more important than trying to quantify life into a formula. EW finally personifies this with Hermes and Meteion, but the game asked us the question long before Venat spelled it out directly. The Tribes and their Primals, the lowbornes and the dragons, the people of Ala Mhigo and Othard, the list goes on. We were constantly, CONSTANTLY finding peoples' answers for living. But the actual answers, the reasons, didn't matter. 'Hear, Feel, Think' doesn't refer to WHAT people are hearing, or feeling, or thinking; it's referring to the fact that they do and that's all that should matter. Your answer isn't what you say, your answer is the fact you seek one. The ones who suffer are the ones who stop seeking.

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.

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.