FFXIV: Dawntrail EndGame Theme with Lyrics - Smile

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⭐⭐⭐Immerse yourself in the enchanting melodie of the "Dawntrail" endgame theme song, "Smile," from Final Fantasy XIV. In this video, I present the full track, accompanied by on-screen lyrics, so you can sing along and fully experience the magic of this epic conclusion. Whether you're reminiscing on your journey or seeking inspiration for new adventures, let this beautiful song lift your spirits and bring a smile 😁 to your face.
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Title: FFXIV Dawntrail EndGame Theme with Lyrics - Smile
Game: Final Fantasy 14
Expansion: Dawntrail
Lyrics from multiple sources reasech
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⭐⭐⭐Lyrics:
😊At the crossroads standing here
Not a star in the sky to guide me tonight
If we're in lost in lasting fear
Deep in darkness 'round the cracks
All this pain inside me
Don't know where it starts or when it'll end
Try to tame the agony
As I close my eyes and scream to the wind
😊Look around and find I'm standing all alone
Look again, we're standing there
Cause the storm has taken everything you know
Ev'ry loss you needn't bear
Don't know why I thought I'd make it by myself
After all that we've been through
Out of time, I'm running; black inside my head
We were always there for you
😊There's so much in life I couldn't understand
Understand we're by your side
Standing tall we face tomorrow hand-in-hand
Putting yours in yours and mine
Ev'ry memory through thе war, the everyland
This is our tale, our tapestry
Nеver losing sight of everywhere I've been
Never lose a part of me
😊In lighting's wake did naught but ash remain
Yet in the rain does life's song ring again
Our ancient chorus sounds beyond the flames
It carries on
We will carry on
😊So smile and let the rainbow sing
Remember of you and me
Alive with everything it breathes
Perserve our peace and harmony
We walk a neverending trai
In our hearts, we'll carry this
We know that our wish shall never pale
This is our inheritance
😊Just imagine what's around the bend
Just imagine what it wil be
Magic or mischief, Gods forfend!
As you sing, remember me
Endless marvels, myst'ries, newfound friends
Which involves around on us
Wilder than wildest dreams portend
To tomorrow it will come to part
😊Tight, seize the day and hold on tight
The sun is risin'
Life, take it slow and take a bite
So high, on the dawn we set our sights
Unwind your heart and find your worries'll disappear
A new horizon
Fly, ever forward, starry-eyed
Now turn the page to tales untold
😊Oooo, yea!
😊Hold tight this land we call our home
Built upon our common dream
We fight to never let it go
On and on, we still believe
Of fire, we have not seen the last
In the sun, where we shall rise
We’ll rise again, we’ll see this past
Ever on, we march in stride
😊An ever if you'll be out on your own
Tender hearts or sorrow's skies to mend
If youl trip will carry you
😊We’ll spread our wings and take in the sky, oh
Fill them with golden tones instead
Together look at we can do
😊Come, wipe away the tears in your eyes
Steady forward, there's so much to see
Let`s do it once again
😊Together for the rest of our lives
All flow together, you and me
Tomorrow will come again
😊Clim the heaven's peak
Clim the heaven's peak, and from the heavens
From the heavens
😊Grab all that we need
Grab what we need
Soon we go on, we'll carry on
journey on, Ooo!
😊Never gonna stop, never gonna stop
Never gonna stop
😊Aaaa! Yeaaa! Aaaa! Yeaaa!
Working together, this land we defend
😊Aaaa! Yeaaa! Aaaa! Yeaaa!
Now and forever, for we won't end
✨Thank you for being a part of our incredible community. Let's step into the Dawntrail together!✨
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[@NightwingsBeyond]

😁I am 95% sure i manage to cover it all. I have use multiple sources such as reddit, genius and multiple free voice remover browsers in order to build it. Please be gentle with me in the commnets🙏. I'm currently making content in my own spare time but if you'd like to support me and my work, please take a moment to like and subscribe to the channel. Your support helps a lot and grows my audience. Thank you🤗!

[@JangoFox11880]

well, we will know it for sure when SE releases the complete lyrics ^^ Until then is your video more then enough ^^ Thank you for the effort you put into it! I love this song since it was played thes very first time in the MSQ :)

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@JangoFox11880 thank you so kindly for you kind words, it means a lot.

[@Alex-jd4il]

Feels like the part about holding hands should be ‘mine in yours and yours in mine’.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@Alex-jd4il hmm, will have to wait for the official

[@minhbi99]

A recommendation for the lyric part: Don't use the "glaring" effect for the music, as well as the running through glares. Lyrics should at the foremost, be easy to read and notice. The glare effect would often obscure the first few words when the lyric appear, while, making it a real distraction to read the lyric.

[@dbslayer7]

Knowing what the lyrics are make the song hit harder. It starts as a somber song about someone lamenting their pain and loneliness but the chorus keeps coming in to join them and let them know they aren't alone. Perfect for a story about disparate cultures and communities finding peace and harmony in the face of adversity.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Well said 👏 👌

[@SuperSnivMatt]

3:47 The “Just imagine what’s around the bend” part is just peak to me, listening to the entire song just made me enjoy it so much more. 100% was a jarring experience hearing parts of it with no build up but I very much enjoy it and the lyrics

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you very much for your comment

[@Fall-u7q]

Love the part when they star saying "So smile and let the rainbow sing," it is raining and it tranzition to a sunny moment! Good video !

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you, that was intended to do!

[@lysandermorgensonne9850]

I've had this on repeat all weekend and I am filled with serotonin, thank you for the upload! It'll tide me over until the OST finally ships to me

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@lysandermorgensonne9850 omg, thank you so kindly for your lovely comment, this one was hard to add lyrics, and me personally, i still think this is a beautiful song. Regarding my WOL, i have never use a fantasia, been like this since the beginning.

[@Fatone1927]

This sounds like the end of a disney movie

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@Fatone1927 yep

[@monsunoguy19]

SPOILER ADJACENT AHEAD So for those who know, NG+(SHB) to "restore" living memory, yes. BUT. If you have the weatherman plugin you can change the weather while its still restored, it looks so pretty at night, this just makes me believe that restoring it as an actual city for the Alexandrians is possible in the patches. We all know it would be a shame for nothing to be done with this area, I mean- kind of.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Mate, i am NG+ all the time there for fates. I'm super sure I will plug back in the lights. And i bet to you that Kona is going to be the Hero.

[@DrakeWurrum]

I don't care what the haters say. It was truly refreshing to have an expansion that was hopeful and optimistic, looking towards a brighter future as we accept loss and keep walking forward beyond the end. To our next adventure, my fellow Warriors of Light! *raises a glass*

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@DrakeWurrum (raising a glass up) Cheers! Thank you for your comment.

[@jessnkinz]

Musically, Soken also tried to use various North and South American musical styles ....for example this song, is very much rooted in afro-american gospel/new age praise and worship. The musical roots of the Americans, *tend* to be very uplifting, bright and hopeful. Jazz, Country, American Theatre, Gospel, Salsa, Reggie, Swing, Rock, American Classical Music (like Copeland and Gershwin) all appearas influnces in this explansions music plus much more.... and all are hopeful, bright and uplifting. And when not these things, driven. I teared up many times in zones hearing various themes *not* because they were moving in that way, but because they moved me. To hear, that this Japanese man, trying to replicate and color a world to tell a story and show culture...that he sees us, or at least hears us, this way. As hopful and cheery and uplifting and positive. That the world...or at least Soken still sees the America's as a vibrant, place of hope.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@jessnkinz Wow! Just wow! Going to be honest, reading your coment, i was really having images of the gospel song and people coming together! Mate wow.

[@jessnkinz]

@@NightwingsBeyond

[@Sir_Lockmane]

I personally love this song, during the MSQ and in the end. I also loved DTs story, i know not everyone did, but by the end i adored my time with it. Teriffic work on the video, thank you for putting this together!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@Sir_Lockmane thank you for your kind words, it was hard work this one , but i enjoyed it.

[@TransientWitch]

For actual years now, whenever I got to help someone new through one of the later story trials...Mostly starting in Shadowbringers, I would usually bid everyone smile because tomorrow is going to a beautiful day. The rains would cease. Then we come to the end of Dawntrail...And it tells me to smile, because tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day. The rains will come and go, and we'll be greeted with fresh skies and gorgeous rainbows. Here's to endless marvels, mys'tries, and newfound friends.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

It's incredible how Dawntrail echoed your sentiment, bringing it full circle in such a beautiful way. This moment must have felt like a validation of all the optimism you've shared with others. Here's to continuing to find endless marvels, mysteries, and newfound friends together in the adventures ahead!

[@0xKazuto]

i love this song very much and i put it on repeat. feels like this song is presented for Azem. But i have to say, the credit scene is kinda off for this song.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

What do you mean 😊? Kinda off, made me curious 🤔 😅.

[@altoxicity]

i caught a few typos (trai->trail, (clim->climb a couple times) but this is so well-done, thank you op!! i love this song and it makes me really emotional, the perfect song for ending dt with🥹

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you for the coment, i can swer it was all good before going live!! This one was a tough one with 3 voices at thy end... Glad you like it !!!

[@mario9153]

Dam... was actually wondering when someone will do the lyrics for the song. The end part, thank you so much! It was bugging me to know what they were saying. Good job, buddy!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you so kindly! I appreciate it!

[@papersage69]

The line “ev’ry memory through the war, the everylnad” I think actually reads “Weaving memory through the warp and weft of the land”. The warp and weft are what makes up a woven fabric, and it ties into the chorus referencing a tapestry. Though the “of the land” part is still hard for me to parse, I for sure hear warp and weft.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I can't say anything to be fair. We will see when the official will come out.

[@Stickarms99]

***SPOILERS FOR DAWNTRAIL MSQ*** - - - - - I couldn't help but notice that the while song can be interpreted as as being about either Alexandria or Tural; I think it actually eludes *more* to Alexandria. The first thing I caught was "the storm has taken everything you know"; which, in fairness, could on its own just be a metaphor for hard times. Then I noticed "in lightning's wake did naught remain but ash". THAT'S far more specific, when you consider the story of Dawntrail as context. But THEN I noticed "climb the Heaven's peak, and from the Heaven's peak, grab all that we need; soon we'll go on, never gonna stop". This had me full-stop. What was Sphene's goal, again? To invade the other shards and kill everyone they find so that they can harvest their souls and use them to fuel their own artificial afterlives? Sounds like the song just reworded that extremely selfish and downright evil goal in a flowery and nice sounding way. This fascinates me, because the entire song has a COMPLETELY different vibe when you read it this way. It effectively becomes a call from Sphene to the Alexandrians, to optimistically unify as a people with the common goal of inter-shard genocide, so that they can keep having their own immortal paradise to themselves. The song is still happy sounding, because the people singing it *are* happy. It's about togetherness, love, unity, always being able to count on each other, a nation of people who are all helping each other through adversity; but the solution to their adversity is at the cost of potentially billions of innocent lives. It's a really clever and subtle way to give the song a sinister twist, that only people paying close enough attention will notice.

[@littleowl3493]

I don't think you are wrong about who it's about. However I think, like a lot of second themes in ff14, it's a bit more then that. I think the singer is *her* after the fact. She is lamenting on what she didn't do, and all of those in the asterial sea and in some ways those still alive, telling her she never was alone. She didn't have to take this mantle of leadership on her own. They will find a new way forward. Notice the song plays *after* everything that happens. Least this is my interpretation of it. (sorry for being vague, trying to avoid big spoilers, though if you don't want spoilers why are you here?lol)

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Wow, going to be honest, i never expected so much depth. Just wow 👌 👏

[@Stickarms99]

@@littleowl3493 Like I said, there are definitely multiple different valid interpretations, and the lyrics are vague enough that they can still apply. But I think the lines I quoted were intentionally written into the song to justify the interpretation I pointed out, to say "yes, it can mean this very sinister thing too, and we hope someone does read that in between the lines" Also, I started my comment original comment with a big ole spoiler warning. If anyone still reads it and then opens the replies to it, that's on them at this point lol

[@Crossbattle777]

I think j it’s a song that encapsulates that Tural and Alexandria as well as Wuk Lamat and Sphene are mirrors. Tural also has just faced heavy storms that left people dead, homes destroyed, roadways blocked or destroyed

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@@Crossbattle777 yea.. i think you're on to something

[@CadeAid1]

I love how unique this song is compared to the other credits songs. It's got good vibes 😊!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Honestly, when i heard it the first time, i felt a Disney vibe. Of happily ever after.

[@MaisieSqueak]

It surely has.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@MaisieSqueak i know right! So happy that i am not the only one thinking this way.

[@ToastyCoyote]

PSO2 JRPG sounding-ass song (compliment) It reminded me of the end song for PSO2 Ep.3 “Hello”

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Lol, i just Google that now 🤣, You are right. It does give that vibe .

[@Clashbreak]

Hell yes, I was comparing it to hello since the first time I heard it

[@MahalGC]

This and Starless Skyline (Solution 9's theme) gave me that vibe, and I'm all for it personally.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@MahalGC glad you like it, it's a cute one, some Disney vibes.

[@icathianPLD]

1:1 what I thought lmao

[@KonDragon008]

Thank you for the work on tracking down the lyrics! This is probably my favorite song in the DT soundtrack.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

thank you so kindly for your coment, i really do apreciated it a lot, fell free to share the link around 🙏

[@SkaterDevil-ig5yp]

*Y'sthola looks up to the obelisk then sideways with a smile.* "I am blind. :)"

[@NightwingsBeyond]

😅😅😅

[@edeonsaint9938]

I really CANT wait for a community verison of this song, with hundreds of voices singing it!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Omg, yes! It will be legendary!

[@muffetmissulena6540]

I honestly don’t want anything from the community when it comes to Dawntrail. They’ve made their hate for this expansion well known and I’m just sick of it at this point.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@edeonsaint9938 yep same here!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@muffetmissulena6540 uff, really sorry to hear that 🤗

[@itsOasus]

I'll definitely be answering the call when it gets sent out 😊

[@MBunn-uf1we]

it's somewhat odd thats this song can also be about Alexandria too. considering the mentioning of thunder, storms and climbing mountains.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I think the thid it for both Citys, as the story is happening around them.

[@sgtass1]

This song gives a lot of Hikaru Utada vibes. Personally speaking, this is one of my favorite expansion songs. It's nice to have a genuinely happy song for once.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Yep a agree!

[@Flynnicus]

the singer sounds off-key in the song... a lot. Like randomly going very flat, and honestly needing to sing too quickly for the lyrics to flow properly. Don't know if she actually is, but it sounds bad anyways. Both a performance issue *and* a song-writing issue. Still love the message and the tone, though. Not an awful Expansion song, but definitely the worst thus far. Definitely feels like the composed the instrumental motifs for the expansion first, and then tried to force lyrics onto those melodies.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I must say, reading your commnent, it is hard to know if you like the song or not :)

[@Flynnicus]

@@NightwingsBeyond Ha, you're totally right. I'd say the feeling is something like "I can't help but like it!" I think it's not up to the standards I expect from Mr. Soken or Mr. Uematsu, but it's cute and there are lots of parts that sound really nice. I guess the problems just stick out to me more because I'm not used to seeing any.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@Flynnicus i see, wow, interesting indeed.

[@Nillami]

Oooh... I was hoping that this song will appear with lyrics at some point, but I never thought that it will be uploaded by a content creator I had a chance to be in the same FC with for a little bit of time :) (Back on Phantom, in Umbral Eclipse). Thank you for the upload, I will share it with my friends, leave you a like and this comment to boost your algorithm, hopefully this video will blow out! :) Wish you all the best!💜

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Hello there! Oh my, thank you so kindly! Hope to meet you again in the game

[@TheBolondron]

The whole "squeeze four syllables into one beat" thing they tried with this just sounds bad. Like there are songs that do it well, this isn't even close to being one of them.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

oh well, it is what it is...

[@snubbirth136]

Someone said there is black gospel in this. I'm not hearing it unless you're talking about....the use of a choir that's not uniquely black gospel.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

In my personal opinion, i felt like it was a Disney song.

[@YueAki]

I cant be the only one who expected a bit more out of this cutscene... Like not emotes but new amimations and all that, more people on the background. Etc etc. But other than that, I love the song

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Honestly, you are so far the only one, apologies, i am saying that because i do read all the comments and replay it back. But how much more?

[@YueAki]

@@NightwingsBeyond maybe I just got spoiled by games like BG3 but the whole emoting NPCs is kinda off. Like the scene when they are telling the NPCs of Solution Nine their precious queen is dead. Where is everyone? There should be a full city, but we can count people on our fingers there.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@YueAki oh man, not a good comparison, BG3, is something else in totally,

[@YueAki]

@@NightwingsBeyond ikr, 😂😂 but I see all the other games doing so much else, and FF kinda locked in the same. And we know they can do better. I expected more from them. And I'm not new to the game, I've been playing since HW, no-stop (mostly, I'm not playing this patch for now, for example). It's not like I don't know the limitations they had. But they don't have most of them anymore. We know by the benchmarks and other cutscenes that they can do better than this.

[@DJVirgoNeun1]

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I love the expansion song was very off-putting when I first heard it. I get the message that it gives, but the composition feels rushed and the vocalist sounds like she's struggling. I dunno, this song feels like it's very incomplete with last minute decisions made! I want to love it, but it feels like I'm listening to a demo.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I felt like it was a Disney song 😂

[@DJVirgoNeun1]

@@NightwingsBeyond Thank you! Someone here finally said it!!

[@NeoTrggrTheGammer]

just wrapped up the main story and this song just gave me Lion King vibes in the best way possible

[@NightwingsBeyond]

OMG, i swer i was having so many Disney vibes out of it. 😅😅😅

[@FeydenAR]

Lion... queen? Hehe.

[@NeoTrggrTheGammer]

@@FeydenAR *golf clap* that was actually funny

[@NeoTrggrTheGammer]

@@NightwingsBeyond actually for lols made the Dawntrail title using the Lion King font because of it :D

[@superhetoric]

bc it's showtunes inspired and classic Disney was all about being inspired by Broadway

[@steakdriven]

What is this off-broadway High School Musical late model Disney kitsch?

[@NightwingsBeyond]

song called "Smile"😉

[@millamiqote8827]

Not a fan of the main singing tbh (breathy, and... there's something else I'm not sure how to explain). Most of all I think the song in the MQ was... not placed well which lowers my impression of it as well. This is normally the type of song I tend to enjoy alot though, so it still get's an ok. That said, I'm impressed with your work with the vid though. Good job!

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you so kindly, i really do appreciate it.

[@Alissandre_Iskander]

I feel the same way. To me, it was a bit jarring in the dawnservant ceremony and... kind of bizarre to hear when we were turning a train into a bomb. As far as the vocals, sometimes, it felt like the singer was borderline straining at some points. But I do like the song, for the most part.

[@YueAki]

I ALWAYS want to cry when I listen to this song, is so beautiful ❤️😢

[@NightwingsBeyond]

i understand you so well!!! Don`t worry we all been there

[@Iceteafire2914]

Incredible! nice work

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@devilmillenium2912]

i don't care what many people are saying about Dawntrail, it was the best expansion to me, it's a perfect way to start a new narrative arc, It's a very good way of telling everyone not to forget what has been, but to let it go and move on to the future. Of course, the expansion didn't have a great interdimensional war spanning several millennia like the previous ones, but on the one hand, you never start a story with its ending, and if Endwalker or Shadowbringers had been released at the time of ARR without all the previous worldbuilding it would have been mediocre, so you can't expect an expansion whose role is to be an ARR 2. 0 to have the same degree of involvement and narration as a story told over 10 years, the end of the expansion follows this message well, thanks to the story of Sphene: as was the case for the ancients, you pull the plug and let the past be the past, to turn towards the future, which was already announced after all when we fight Zenos for the last time and after the postgame of Endwalker, we are no longer the Warrior of Light, we are Azem, the Adventurer.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Dam, that is a very good comment! Honestly, you have nailed down to a T.

[@devilmillenium2912]

@@NightwingsBeyond i'm pretty sure my grammar left me in some of those sentences but thank you

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@devilmillenium2912 no man, honestly, it was good, as i did understand you, you left me speachless.🗣

[@8itesize]

There’s a certain person calling people racist for not liking this song. That’s really stupid.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I know, to be fair, it's up to the people to decide whether it is or not, Personally, i see it as a Disney song.

[@8itesize]

@@NightwingsBeyond yeah that's totally fair seeing it as a disney song.

[@blankAschente]

Wuk's english va saying people hate this for being "black gospel" is so moronic it hurts.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

It is what it is, 🤷 the Internet is a vast ocean of people with different perspectives. Personally, it did not bother me.

[@river_g]

The vocals 😬😬😬

[@NightwingsBeyond]

What is with them?

[@river_g]

@@NightwingsBeyond Very flat

[@superhetoric]

I came to KZbin to try and find who sings the vocals bc they caught me off guard with how... ill-fitting and amateur sounding they were ;-;

[@river_g]

@@superhetoric And the mixing doesn’t do it any favors. The mic quality sounds bad and doesn’t fit the instrumental

[@river_g]

@@superhetoricAnd the chorus/choir in the background mixes poorly, too

[@Kebin13]

Oof, guess there is a first time for everything, and my first time here is not liking a ff xiv music.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that 😔 .

[@luciferr09]

This is peak 90's Lion King musical.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

It does give you that feeling. Like even the environment seems a lion king ending

[@NixonAxi]

Meme.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

😅

[@woljay9362]

This song really applies to my life right now… so many years thinking I was alone yet I had people there always tor me ❤ Depression really can make us blind to many things. Beautiful lyrics and melody 🫶🏼

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Omg! Thank you for the comment, hope youa re well and keeping safe. I know how hard it is when the world is closing in on you. 💓

[@woljay9362]

@@NightwingsBeyond Aw!! I should be thanking you; this is the first time I see the full lyrics and they sure hit home. Thank you also for asking! I’m a lot better and definitely at my healing stage 🫶🏼

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@woljay9362 glad to hear you are ok. Honestly these lyrics were tha hard yo add. And thank you for your kind words.

[@zyndyr5984]

ngl, I am not for the overlapping parts, but lyrically - this song is awesome. Clean parts/Soft Parts, love em. Not into the kind of prayer/disney choir bits but it is what it is, there's been other themes this xpac i've ADORED.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

It is a good song. what do you mean by "the overlapping parts," is the lyrics ? feedback is apreciated it.

[@zyndyr5984]

@@NightwingsBeyond Aye, I sort of mean how the chorus chanting behind the main lyrics are performed, the prayer-sounding parts :)

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@@zyndyr5984 i see, yea, good point.

[@MaisieSqueak]

Ok I wasn't sold at first but... I give it credit... This is a cracking song. It's just SO out there... I hope we return to something more akin to the previous songs after this interlude. I guess with Zodiark/Ascians and Hydealyn gone we can no longer expect the epic choir and opera... Shoot... That makes me very sad.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Hmm, I've never thought that the choir was only for the Zodiark and Hydaelyn saga. It kind of makes sense now, from climatic battle to down to earth skirmishes 😂. Yea, now i see it.

[@AkaRystik]

So I havent played Dawntrail because as a healer main I just felt like FF14 forgot about people like me, so coming at this song fresh with no context: its corny as hell. Holy shit this song is awful, the singer just sounds bad, like off key or something, and the lyrics are just so cheesy and Disney musical like. I can understand why there are so many people talking about this song now.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

I see, hmm, i think after you play the game you will have a different opinion

[@loldeathnote]

This song first appears during a bomb making action oriented scene. A song telling you to smile as things blow up. It's peak cringe. It's quite fitting for this lackluster expansion.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@loldeathnote you are wrong of were it apears the first time. It's not the train bom but when she becomes Downservant. But on the other hand the placement of this song when they built the bomb, yes you are right.

[@JinzoMask656]

I liked the music, but the game had too much of FF9 IMO, there was obviously slight deviations but the core antagonist motivation was the same along with the whole throne theme. It didn't feel unique like the previous story (I know there was influences from other series. Just wasn't as prevalent), I guess if you've never played FF9 it isn't an issue though

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Ok, i see what you mean. When i finish the game people was like "FF9 al over again" so i search a youtube story video. And yea i see the similarities.

[@JinzoMask656]

@NightwingsBeyond but if you haven't played FF9 I highly recommend it. Hopefully a remake of it comes out

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@JinzoMask656 i am to much of a sucker for good graphics in this days if s remake will come out. For sure will play it.

[@lunarose9535]

It was directly inspired by ff9 and... (spoiler below) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... is supposed to be the same world the story of ff9 took place on, though a fair bit in the future. as i understood it.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

@@lunarose9535 Dam, yea it kind a make a lot of sense if you put it that way.

[@TNTspaz]

I'm so confused now. Saw on discord that apparently there is drama about this song being "black gospel" music. It isn't even gospel music lol. More sounds like one of those rushed disney songs. Where the vocalists was given like a day to practice and they weren't really given any direction. Either that or this would be like one of those choir songs you'd practice for one session before you had to do a concert lol. I've been in that situation before and it sounds exactly like this. Edit: Couldn't put my finger on it but after listening to it a few times. I think I spotted why the song sounds so off to me. They made the lyrics independently from the music composition and are trying to force it to fit together. It just doesn't work. She is trying so hard to squeeze in the lyrics her voice literally goes flat. Just to give an example of how important this is most of the time. Listen to the bee song. The music and the lyrics are so synced together that the lyrics can be sung easily without the underlying music. Since they were made together and they almost literally meld together. Now try and sing the lyrics of Smile without the accompanying music. It doesn't work. You can sing a phrase and then there is like two extra words that really should either not be present or the notes in the music itself should have been extended. Those are the parts her voice goes flat cause there is literally nothing to accompany it. It's also why the song heavily leans into the call and response choir. Since the music sheet literally just says 1 note loudly lol Actually had a music teacher who demonstrated this to a class I took. He had one person compose a piece of music. Then told another person to write lyrics for the music without ever listening to it. Just being given a vague description. Then had a vocalist who hadn't seen either try and attempt to sing the lyrics with the music. It was nearly impossible for them to match them together. It was used to demonstrate the importance of communication on a collaborate project. Since it's not uncommon for lyricists and composers to work together. It's an extreme example but on some level. That's what sounds like happened here.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

ow wow, yea i seen Xenos reacting to it as well. I honeslty think is more of a disney theme and gospel.

[@woljay9362]

It most definitely has gospel influences. Also btw Disney also has a lot of gospel influence. A great example was the music of Hercules (1997)………

[@shybandit521]

Eh... it's okay. It's no Tomorrow and Tomorrow or Flow, but it's okay.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you!

[@yuina88]

total cringe song

[@NightwingsBeyond]

But it is a good one😁

[@aaronvillanueva3592]

I'm so whimsical and I love it

[@NightwingsBeyond]

​@@aaronvillanueva3592 glad you like it

[@maik5201]

we killed a lot of not death nor alive ppl, our fight got interrupted for HER and we even get the side character treatment in our final fight, then we disney....

[@NightwingsBeyond]

😅😅😅

[@HaddaClu]

Not even the good Disney song treatment....

[@NeroLucifarious]

1. This is her story not ours, put your main character syndrome back on its shelf. 2. Theres the door edgelord no one will miss you, just like no one will miss me.

[@redgeoblaze3752]

It's an alright song, but it's definitely no Tomorrow and Tomorrow, or Flow.

[@NightwingsBeyond]

Thank you for your comment 🤗

[@ChocoboGordo]

:(

[@NightwingsBeyond]

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