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Music: Nobuo Uematsu

Arrangement: Tsutomu Naria

Lyrics: Yaeko Sato & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox

Vocals: Susan Calloway

Choir: Tomoko Kanda, Junko Menish, Haruhiko Azuma, Satofumi Suyama

I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer?

Release your hands, for your will drags us under.

My legs grow tired, tell us where must we wander?

How can we carry on if redemption’s beyond us?

To all of my children in whom life flows abundant,

To all of my children in whom death hath passed his judgement,

The soul yearns for honour, and the flesh the hereafter.

Look to those who walked before to lead those who walked after.

Shining is the land’s light of justice.

Ever flows the land’s well of purpose.

Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe...

The land is alive, so believe...

Suffer (Feel)

Promise (Think)

Witness (Teach)

Reason (Hear)

Follow (Feel)

Wander (Think)

Stumble (Teach)

Listen (Speak)

Honour (Speak)

Value (Tell)

Whisper (Tell)

Mention (Hope)

Ponder (Hope)

Warrant (Wish)

Cherish (Wish)

Welcome (Roam)

Witness (Roam)

Listen (Roam)

Suffer (Roam)

Sanction (Sleep)

Weather (Sleep)

Wander (Sleep)

Answer (Sleep on)

Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated.

Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated.

Our souls have been torn and our bodies forsaken.

Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken.

War born of strife, these trials persuade us not.

(Feel what?) (Learn what?)

Words without sound, these lies betray our thoughts.

Mired by a plague of doubt, the Land, she mourns.

(See what?) (Hear what?)

Judgment binds all we hold to a memory of scorn.

Tell us why, given Life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries?

Witness (Feel)

Suffer (Think)

Borrow (Teach)

Reason (Hear)

Follow (Feel)

Stumble (Think)

Wander (Teach)

Listen (Blink)

Whisper (Blink)

Shoulder (Blink)

Ponder (Blink)

Weather (Hear)

Answer (Look)

Answer (Think)

Answer together

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 that same fleeting moment,

Thou must live, die, and know.