promises to keep ~ see you again version - ft. haruno sora, ROSE & POPY

"... i could never forget you. try as i might." -gaia with dawn hot on our trail, i thought it would be appropriate to look back at some of my favorite moments in final fantasy xiv. although i'm frequently on the record of not being too keen on shadowbringers, the eden series has a special place in my heart. it was the first savage raiding i participated in (though, i did still pretty quickly decide it wasn't for me after proving i could do it!), but it also centered ryne, a character i have a pretty intense personal connection to. i hope i was able to capture how much her and gaia's story means to me. and, well... the role mitron played in all of it. thank you for listening. #ffxiv #synthesizerv - arranged from "promises to keep", "return to oblivion", "shadowbringers" and "answers", featured in final fantasy xiv: shadowbringers. additional lyrics, arrangement, and production by h. p. heisler. vocals provided by synthesizer V by dreamtonics. produced in cubase 13 pro. - lyrics: SORA / Mitron (POPY / Ryne) [ROSE / Gaia] i heard the words call back shadows long cast far from our past horrors that stare aghast behind their masks darker than black memories shift like sand passed through our hands to understand power which shakes the land ours to command at journey's end- i see your face staring through mine as the world unwinds here, locked beyond time i will wait, please find me. beyond the light there's a garden waiting if you forget all the promises you keep the sun is bright and the clouds are breaking and the life that you wanted is in reach your sacrifice will be one worth making if you forget, see how suddenly you're freed from all of life's mortal burdens weighing soon you'll rest for eternity in peace (don't close your eyes) (keep breathing and try) (don't follow the light, i'm begging you please) (hear my promise to fight) watching you now forget [eyes wet with tears] (i'll dry your tears) hardships well-meant [her song in my ears] (my song in your tears) in our descent i won't let go, not let [broken, faded, how long have i waited?] soon this torment [to open my wings as-] will see its end as- judgement comes, we'll become one [judgement turns the light on.] when our battle's done [don't let her in when she turns the light on.] (don't let her in, gaia, please!) floodwaters will run [turn the light on, the pain won't end when she turns the light on.] our new dream's begun. (please, just remember me...) if you could see, see your fate more clearly. gather the shards of your broken mind (FOLLOW, SUFFER, STUMBLE, LISTEN!) you would believe, leave this world with me we'd travel the stars til we find. (LIFE WON'T MATTER WITHOUT YOU IN IT!) rivers and lakes and the open seas. there's beauty beyond all our wildest dreams (PROMISE YOU DON'T REALLY MEAN IT!) power to make all we'll ever need our paradise just within reach. (ANSWER! ANSWER! ANSWER ME, GAIA!) beyond the light there's a garden waiting if we forget all the promises we keep the sun is bright and the clouds are breaking and the life that we wanted is in reach our sacrifice will be one worth making (She brings shadow, I bring the light) if we forget, see how suddenly we're freed (Two-toned echoes, tumbling through time) from all of life's mortal burdens weighing (No one else should get to decide) soon we'll rest for eternity in peace (Who we love and how we live our lives) [soon we'll rest for eternity in-] [rivers and lakes and the wind opens seas [where the lives that they lead are the ones we believe] [should go on with the world now forever reborn] [finding loves of their own as our names overgrow in the earth] my love, was it naive? was paradise a dream? washed away by tears that have stained your face. my love, how can it be? the gates are calling me. in the end, i know i'll see you again. in the end, i know i'll see you again. i know i'll see you again. - dawntrail, shadowbringers, ff14, ffxiv, final fantasy, eden, eden's promise, synthesizer V, synthesizerV, vocal synth, vocaloid, remix, arrangement, arrange, orchestral, vocal, dawntrail, haruno sora, rose, popy, bandori, bang! dream,