SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~

SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ (called Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- on the Revival disc, sometimes unofficially referred to as Small Two Of Pieces ~Restored Pieces~) is Disc 1, Track 19 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack and track 45 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack Revival Disc -the first and the last-. It was also included as track 12 on the album Colours of Light (a compilation of Mitsuda's vocal works).

Faraway Promise (and, by extension, A Distant Promise - Piano Version -, Wind from the Valley - A Distant Promise, and A Distant Promise (Music Box Version)) are versions of this track, with Faraway Promise being played on a music box.

This track is the ending theme of Xenogears, playing at the end of the final cutscene as well as in the staff credits. The song is also the audio to a music video stored in the Japanese version of Xenogears' second disc; however, this file cannot ordinarily be accessed without extraction tools or similar methods.

The lyrics were written by Masato Kato and sung by Joanne Hogg, and are as follows:

Run through the cold of night as passion burns in your heart Ready to fight, a knife held close by your side Like a proud wolf alone in the dark with eyes that watch the world And my name like a shadow on the face of the moon

Broken mirror A million shades of light The old echo fades away But just you and I Can find the answer and then We can run to the end of the world We can run to the end of the world

Cold fire clenched to my heart in the blue of night Torn by this pain, I paint your name in sound And the girl of the dawn with eyes of blue and angel wings The songs of the season are her only crown

Broken mirror A million shades of light The old echo fades away But just you and I Can find the answer and then We can run to the end of the world We can run to the end of the world

We met in the mist of morning And parted deep in the night Broken sword and shield and tears that never fall But run through the heart Washed away by the darkest water The world is peaceful and still

Broken mirror A million shades of light The old echo fades away But just you and I Can find the answer and then We can run to the end of the world We can run to the end of the world

Run to the end of the world

SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version -
SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version - is a remix of SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~. It is Track 13 on the -MYTH- The Xenogears Orchestral Album CD and track 3 on the B-side of the vinyl release.

Small Two of Pieces (Piano Version)
Small Two of Pieces (Piano Version) is a remix for solo piano of SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ performed at the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End-, and is the 9th track on the associated Blu-Ray disc.

Despite the name, the track is arguably much closer to Faraway Promise than SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~, sharing its structure and harmonisation with the former piece.

Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- (20th Anniversary)
Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- is a remix of SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ performed at the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End-, and is the 22nd track on the associated Blu-Ray disc.