Melancholia is a track in Xenoblade Chronicles X composed and arranged by Hiroyuki Sawano with original lyrics by mpi and David Whitaker and vocals provided by Aimee Blackschleger and rap provided by David Whitaker that originally first appeared in Hiroyuki Sawano's album musica. It was rearranged for its release in the XenobladeX Original Soundtrack, listed as "Melancholia <Ver.X>" on the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) database. It is track 6 of disc 3 in the soundtrack. It is a track that plays in the Squad selection menu as well as during the following cutscenes:
- Nagi and Maurice discussing the dangerous indigen in A Day in the Life
- The final cutscene in A New Rival?
- The final cutscene in Renewed Will
- The final cutscene in Fathers and Sons
Lyrics[]
With this life, I'm exhausted
They are frozen, people's eyes
Kind of close to endless mental slavery
Always look up to the sky
Is this what I'm living for?
How can I spin this world better?
Every place I used to live
All the news we used to hear
All the things we heard from you
Are almost making fun of me
Every day we work so hard
Every thing will never change
Push forward, it's time to make the day yours
Push forward, it's time to make the day yours
See, it's not the cards that life deals
Anyone can alter situations
Push forward, it's time to make the day yours
Anyone can alter situations
They try to wear me down with what they tell me
I'm just trying to make moves, see beyond what they're trying to sell
Push for it, even if some attempts fail
Take problems mix 'em up like a cocktail
It's not the cards that life deals
Anyone can alter their situations by
Not sitting around, accepting the
Abuse and devastation
All of my life's begun to change you, until the end
Someone's death means
An indication of the new world
They hope won't be the same
We're kept unheard if we're silent
Waiting on others to make a sound,
Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance
Eyes on the back of the pack
It's time to make the day yours
Complacency never makes an impact
Believe media controls you if you don't act
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
But when we speak, listen, and act,
That's what we change
There's a chance for me to find my way of life
Anyway I know some nervous strain of time
You cheer me, reminds me
There is a sun rise
You told me to save me from a hell on earth
All of the world's begun to take me into the sun
Hiding people getting out from crumbling shelter
Now the time has come today
We're kept unheard if we're silent
Waiting on others to make a sound,
Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance
Eyes on the back of the pack
It's time to make the day yours
Complacency never makes an impact
Believe media controls you if you don't act
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
But when we speak, listen, and act,
There's nothing that can't change
All things can change
Credits[]
- Lyrics: mpi / David Whitaker
- Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
- Vocal: Aimee Blackschleger
- Rap: David Whitaker
- Piano, Keyboards & Programming: Hiroyuki Sawano
- Drums: Yasuo Sano
- Guitars: Hiroshi Iimuro
- Bass: Takeshi Taneda