Template:Sideicon Template:Listen "Distant Worlds" is the ending theme song of the expansion pack of Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia, available in game via a July 2005 patch. It was originally performed by Izumi Masuda.
"Distant Worlds" was included in The Black Mages' third studio album The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight, atypically arranged as a slow-paced instrumental rock ballad. It has been performed live numerous times and included in the concert albums Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy (as a medley along with "Memoro de la Ŝtono" where it was performed by Susan Calloway and VOICES: Music from Final Fantasy. It also appears as the tenth track on the compilation album Final Fantasy XI 8th Anniversary: Memories of Dusk and Dawn, which celebrates the eighth year since the conception Final Fantasy XI.
Lyrics
- Seas invite in the evening sun
- To light the somber abyss.
- Clouds dance up with the heavens' stars,
- Chanting an air of joyous bliss
- Water fades back from blue to jade,
- Guiding young rainbows high.
- Flowers bloom into reds and whites,
- Quenching our hearts as they run dry.
- Angels chained by a beast locked in slumber.
- Sin washed away by the swift flow of time.
- I may know the answers.
- Journeys over snow and sand.
- What twist in fate has brought us
- To tread upon this land?
- Blessed by light and the burden of shadows.
- Souls abide to an endless desire.
- I may know the answers,
- Though one question I still hear.
- What twist in fate has brought us
- To roads that run so near?
- Distant worlds together.
- Miracles from realms beyond.
- The life-light burns inside me
- To sing to you this song;
- To sing with you this song;
- To sing to you your... song.
Trivia
- An NPC in the Weaver's guild in Final Fantasy XIV sings the line "Distant worlds together. Miracles from realms beyond", in a speech bubble while she spins thread.
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