Pain

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Pain -piano version- <New Recording>
Original Title	Pain -piano version- <New Recording>
Composer(s)	Yasunori Mitsuda
Length	2:46
Used in	Xenosaga Episode I

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Pain Piano Version
Original Title	Pain Piano Version
Composer(s)	Yasunori Mitsuda
Length	2:25
Used in	Xenosaga Episode I

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Pain
Original Title	Pain
Composer(s)	Yasunori Mitsuda
Vocals	Joanne Hogg
Language	English
Lyricist	Tetsuya Takahashi
Translator	Takeshi Mogi; Matthew Zuckerman
Length	5:36
Used in	Xenosaga Episode I
Other versions	Pain Piano Version; Pain -piano version- <New Recording>; Pain instrumental

Pain is Disc 2, Track 18 on the Xenosaga Original Soundtrack, Disc 1, Track 17 on the Xenosaga Episode I album, and Track 1 on the Kokoro / Joanne Hogg Theme from "Xenosaga Episode I" album. It was also included as track 4 on the album Colours of Light (a compilation of Mitsuda's vocal works).

It plays in the cutscene where the party escapes Proto Merkabah as KOS-MOS causes it to break apart from the inside.

Lyrics[edit]

First we touch, and we hurt each other
Then we tear our hearts apart
We are too close and I can feel the pain
Fill my empty heart

Is this pain too much for me?
Can I stay the same?
When this pain consumes my heart
Will I be able to hold on to my soul?

Kindness is something I don't want or need
The sunshine would just dissolve me into light
Give me a pain as pleasing as your sigh
So I can feel you all the day and night
And keep me from fading away

Even when we behold each other
Somehow our eyes do not meet
And when you hold me in your strong embrace
Still I feel no heat

But it gives me such delight
To feel you closer now
I know I am true to myself
Though it cuts deep into my heart somehow

Kindness is something I don't want or need
The sunshine would just dissolve me into light
Give me a pain as pleasing as your sigh
So I can feel you all the day and night
And keep me from fading away

Album Notes[edit]

Album notes written by Yasunori Mitsuda. No official translation exists.

高橋監督からの要望は「アメリカン・ポップス調で」ということだったのですが、デモを作った段階では完全にアイリッシュ・サウンドでした。そのギャップを埋めてくれたのが吉良さんのギターで、改めて、色々なことが出来るギタリストなんだな~と感心してしまいました。

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Pain Piano Version[edit]

Pain Piano Version is Track 3 on the DigiCube original Xenosaga music CD. It is a remix of Pain for solo piano.

Pain -piano version- ❮New Recording❯[edit]

Pain -piano version- <New Recording> is Disc 1, Track 21 on the Xenosaga Episode I album. It is a slightly slower rerecording of Pain Piano Version.

Pain instrumental[edit]

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Pain instrumental
Original Title	Pain instrumental
Composer(s)	Yasunori Mitsuda
Length	5:37
Used in	Xenosaga Episode I

Pain instrumental is Track 4 on the Kokoro / Joanne Hogg Theme from "Xenosaga Episode I" album. It is a version of Pain with no vocals.

v • t • e Music of Xenosaga Episode I
XS1 Soundtrack Disc 1	Prologue • Opening • Battle • Battle's End • Startup Test • Reminiscence • Gnosis • Awakening • Shion's Crisis • Battling KOS-MOS • Sorrow • Life or Death • Game Over • Margulis • Pursued Spaceship • Relief • Everyday • U.M.N.MODE • Durandal • Invading the Enemy Ship • U-TIC Organization • The Girl Who Closed Her Heart • Kookai Foundation • Shion ~Memories of the Past~
Disc 2	Ormus • Nephilim • Warmth • Anxiety • The Resurrection • The Beach of Nothingness • Green Sleeves • Zarathustra • KOS-MOS • Panic • Song of Nephilim • The Miracle • Inner Space • Albedo • Omega • Proto Merkabah • Last Battle • Pain • Escape • Kokoro • Shion ~Emotion~
Other	Pain Piano Version • Warmth <New Recording> • The Beach of Nothingness <New Recording> • Green Sleeves <New Recording> • World to be Born • Pain -piano version- <New Recording> • Pain instrumental • Kokoro instrumental • COSMOS