Melancholia

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Melancholia (called Melancholia<VER.X> in the JASRAC database) is Disc 3, Track 6 on the XenobladeX Original Soundtrack.
It plays on the Squad Selection screen, as well as in the following cutscenes:
* Irina and the party reflect on them having rescued the BLADEs that had taunted Irina earlier at the end of Renewed Will.
* Kiefer and Leland Cole clear up their relation at the end of Fathers and Sons.
* H.B. and the party find Solan at the end of A New Rival?.
* suggests that the party take out the Sailing Grex during A Day in the Life.
The track was originally a song on Sawano's musica album, released in 2009. The version for Xenoblade Chronicles X is a remastered version of the same song.
==Lyrics==
(Blackschleger)
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
(Whitaker)
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
(Blackschleger)
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
(Whitaker)
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
(Blackschleger)
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
(Whitaker)
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
==Melancholia ~featuring vocal: Aimee Blackschleger~==
Melancholia ~featuring vocal: Aimee Blackschleger~ is Track 11 on Hiroyuki Sawano's album musica. It was released on the 15th of July 2009, before Xenoblade Chronicles X began development, making it the only track in the series (besides Green Sleeves) known to not have originally been composed for the game it appears in. Melancholia as it appears in Xenoblade Chronicles X is a version of this track with the balance between instruments changed (e.g. with a less prominent drum line).
==Notes==
The official lyrics for both the XenobladeX Soundtrack and musica don't list Whitaker's lyrics. The musica lyrics also lack the comma in "You cheer me, reminds me".
==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
Category:Music (XCX)Category:Songs composed by Hiroyuki Sawano