Faraway Promise

Faraway Promise (called A Distant Promise on the Revival disc, the in-game jukebox in Shevat, and Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -) is Disc 1, Track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack, Track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack Revival Disc -the first and the last-, and Track 5 of the B-Side of the first disc of Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -. It is one of the tracks playable in the Nortune jukebox (under the option 'Requiem'), as well as the Shevat jukebox.

SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ (and, by extension, Möbius, SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version -, and Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- (20th Anniversary)) are vocal remixes of this track. In addition, Dark Daybreak, In A Dark Slumber..., and Wings all use a motif taken from this track's melody at 1:03. The track was remixed for the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End- as the second part of Wind from the Valley - A Distant Promise, in addition to the versions mentioned below.

It plays as the music in the following cutscenes:
 * Fei listens to the music box constructed by Kim. (Here, the music plays in-universe.)
 * Fei momentarily sees a flashback of him as a child playing with his mother after falling in battle near the Kislev border.
 * Rico remembers scenes from his young life after entering Kaiser Sigmund's room.
 * Fei and Elly have a heart-to-heart while adrift at sea in Aquvy.
 * Fei and Elly talk about the former being frozen in carbonite after the destruction of Etrenank.
 * Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Lacan's perspective).
 * Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Sophia's perspective).
 * Fei regains the memories from previous Contacts of the various incarnations of Elly dying, telling him to live each time.

A Distant Promise - Piano Version -
A Distant Promise - Piano Version - (called A Distant Promise -Piano Version- on Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -) is a remix of Faraway Promise. It is Track 14 on the -MYTH- The Xenogears Orchestral Album CD (it was not included on the vinyl release), and was also included as Track 5 of the B-Side of the second disc of Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -.

A Distant Promise (Music Box Version)
A Distant Promise (Music Box Version) is a remix of Faraway Promise performed at the end of the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End-, and is the 25th and final track on the associated Blu-Ray disc. It was played on an actual music box which was specially-constructed for the concert.