[The JukeBox] #79 – Masayoshi Soken – Scream

Back on August 23rd, Square Enix released their 2nd tier of the Endwalker 8-man raid and as per usual, the composer Masayoshi Soken released another banger of a tune!

This time, he collaborated with AKINO (Kawamitsu), an American/Japanese solo singer to perform the song Scream

There is also an instrumental version that is used for one of the fights named Silent Scream.

Lyrics:

Fell child, bastard and beast
A lost lamb, first to the feast
Go claim if you’re able, a spot at this table

Mild and meek, down on your knees
For hide and seek, it’s time that we feed
Your heart is racing, blood is running cold
Your fractured will is whispering (fly a- fly a-)

“Fly away,
Here be lions”

Say goodnight!
With each bite does your sanity die!
Sucking the life out, letting the dark…

Inside!
Say a prayer as the light leaves your eyes!
Or scream all you like, your Gods can’t hear you…

Scream
Now scream
Scream

So suicide, don’t choke on your pride~

Scream
Now Scream
Now scream
Yeah, we’re gonna watch you bleed

Incensed, inflamed, how does it feel?
Your pound is paid, those scars will not heal
You’re lost in suffering, drowning in your tears
Won’t someone, somewhere, tell me, where I (where I)…

Go from here?
Be the lion

Say goodnight!
With each bite does your sanity die!
Sucking the life out, letting the dark…

Inside!
Say a prayer as the light leaves your eyes!
Or scream all you like, the Gods can’t hear you

Dressed in rage, inside my cage
My Pandæmonium, still bound to the flame that I bear
Buried alive, in the coffin of who I used to be!

Oh scream all you like, ’cause we’re all mad here

Simpering, Tempering
Whimpering, Wandering

Simmering, Hungering
Forever falling into the night
Deeper, deeper down tonight

Say goodnight,
To the shadow I’ve left far behind!
I’m just a stranger, we are all strange,

Inside!
You can run but there’s nowhere to hide
So scream all you like, no one can hear us

Follow me, come follow me
To Pandæmonium, still bound to the flame that I bear
There’s no release, from this empty, waking wonderland

So scream if you’d like ’cause we’re all mad here
Scream all you’d like ’cause we’re all mad here