Mostly classic rock, metal (with a non-average amount of Judas Priest lol), classical (particularly minimalism and early 20th-century English choral music/song), and a couple of Final Fantasy-related tracks. There are 49 tracks in the playlist matching 49 chapters in the fic, although it’s not the case that each track corresponds to one chapter; the later chapters tend to be more heavily represented.
Chapter 1: Jecht + Braska
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high
You’d laugh and say nothing’s that simple.
But you’ve been told many times before, Messiahs pointed to the door
And no-one had the guts to leave the temple.
Chapter 2: Braska
Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood—
Fair shine the day on the house with open door;
Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney—
But I go for ever and come again no more.
Chapter 9: Auron
One flesh, one bone, one true religion,
One race, one hope, one real decision …
Chapter 15: Braska
And my dear mother left me when I was quite young,
She said, “Lord, have mercy on my wicked son.”
Chapter 17: Auron/Braska
There’s a pain,
A famine in your heart,
An aching to be free.
Can’t you see
All love’s luxuries
Are here for you and me?
Chapter 17: Braska
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,
Never tired pilgrim’s limbs affected slumber more,
Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast …
Chapter 18
We’ll face our foes so they can hear our voices,
The land rejoices in empathy.
This trial by fire will build from their attrition,
It’s ammunition for our enemies.
Chapter 19: Auron/Braska
I thought that I heard you laughing,
I thought that I heard you singing,
I think I thought I saw you try.
Chapter 20: Braska
In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let his eye see Sin, but through my tears.
Chapter 20: Auron/Braska
But don’t talk, put your head on my shoulder,
Come close, close your eyes and be still,
Don’t talk, take my hand and let me hear your heart beat.
Chapter 23: Auron/Jecht
Better leave no clues to tell him where the hell you been,
You know it’s only late or soon before the truth starts rushing in …
Chapter 25: Auron/Braska
Hanging on the wire,
I’m waiting for my change.
I’m dancing through the fire
Just to catch a flame.
Chapter 26: Auron/Braska
Now every time it rains,
It sometimes gets too much.
You know I feel the pain
When I feel your loving touch.
Chapter 26: Auron/Braska
I would give you all my love,
Nothing else is free.
Open up your heart to me
And I would be your slave.
Chapter 27: Auron/Braska
Hopelessly, I’ll love you endlessly,
Hopelessly, I’ll give you everything,
But I won’t give you up,
I won’t let you down,
And I won’t leave you falling
If the moment ever comes.
Chapter 29
Earth might be fair, and people glad and wise.
Age after age their tragic empires rise,
Built while they dream, and in that dreaming weep.
Would they but wake from out their haunted sleep,
Earth shall be fair, and people glad and wise.
Chapter 34: Auron/Braska
You’re everything I’m wanting,
Come to think of it, I’m aching.
On account of my transgression
Will you welcome this confession?
Chapter 36: Auron/Braska
I held Love’s head while it did ache;
But so it chanced to be,
The cruel pain did his forsake,
And forthwith came to me.
Chapter 37: Auron/Jecht
Though you try, you can’t hide
All the things you really feel. This time, decide
That you will open up, let it in,
There’s no shame sharing love you feel within,
So jump right in …
Chapter 38: Auron
Chapter 39: Braska
Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!
Chapter 40: Auron
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path.
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh,
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying.
Chapter 40: Auron
How does it feel,
The weight of the steel
Of the flat of the blade?
How does it feel
To kneel at the feet
Of the choices you make?
Chapter 41
Chapter 41: Auron/Braska
Well, I guess what they say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.
Chapter 43: Auron/Braska
I’ve asked myself, how much do you
Commit yourself?
It’s my life, don’t you forget.
It’s my life, it never ends.
Chapter 43: Auron + Jecht
We were warned this would happen,
But the words just rang in our ears.
We can only hide for so long
Before they harvest us for the souls that we have left.
Chapter 43: Jecht
Now that it’s real,
Now that the dreams have given all they had to lend,
I want to know:
Do I stay or do I go,
And maybe try another time?
Chapter 44: Jecht
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.
Love is strong as death.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Chapter 44: Jecht + Braska
Hope in my heart as a new day has dawned,
I see your light on the wings of a dove.
Lifting me up as the dark clouds retreat,
My courage transcends and you make me complete.
Chapter 44: Jecht
I never knew that this could happen to me,
So many lonely days and nights.
I never knew that you were waiting for me,
Hope was out of sight.
And suddenly, I see the future clearly,
No longer living in the past
As I let go.
Chapter 44: Jecht
Drink to me, drink to my health,
You know I can’t drink anymore.
Chapter 44: Auron/Braska
I know it was you I hurt,
I didn’t mean to hurt you.
So much to forgive and forget,
Can’t take any more of this hurt,
There’s so many things I regret.
Chapter 45: Braska
When the truth is found to be lies,
And all the joy within you dies,
Don’t you want somebody to love?
Chapter 45: Braska
Assis dans le noir
Occupé à compter mes défauts,
Au fin fond du couloir
Accroché à un atome d’espoir.
Chapter 46: Braska
I have trod the upward and the downward slope;
I have endured and done in days before;
I have longed for all, and bid farewell to hope;
And I have lived and loved, and closed the door.
Chapter 46: Auron/Braska
Bloody and bruised, brought to my knees,
When beaten down, when broken up,
You would appear, reach out to me,
Heal every wound and make me whole.
Chapter 46: Braska
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan.
Chapter 47: Auron/Braska
I had a dream I was you,
Strong as the fire in my veins.
Then when I called out your name,
I would remain to witness the pain. I am beyond silent black,
I will be back as your guardian.
Chapter 48: Auron
Chapter 48: Auron
You don't know the chances,
What if I should die?
A place inside my brain,
Another kind of pain,
You don't know the chances.
I'm so blind.
Chapter 48
This bitter earth,
Well, what a fruit it bears.
What good is love
That no one shares?
Chapter 49: Auron
I took a heavenly ride through our silence,
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life.