Say My Name: A Revan fanmix

[extrapenguin]

I realized it's possible to make unlisted playlists on YouTube, so have it in YouTube format this time! Notice how I got cute with the format in a reflection of the game structure.


One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of enemy attack! You swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now it's time to make good on that oath! –Trask Ulgo
Temperance - Way Back Home
I hear a voice that speaks inside my head
Telling me not to change the way I am
But to believe and chase the best everyday
Another moon will smile upon my way
Another sun will lighten up my face
Don't be surprised, the circle never ends
You can't leave to remain

The council would not normally accept an adult for training, but this is a special case. –Zhar Lestin
Ad Infinitum - Live Before You Die
A new day has come
Your mind flies towards the sky
The journey has begun
And there's no turning back
Your restless soul wants to see, wants to know

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - A Stranger I Remain
I've finally found what I was looking for
A place where I can be without remorse
Because I am a stranger who has found
An even stranger war

Match found? What the…! It always muttered something about 'rejected patterns' for me! –Jolee Bindo
Wolfie's Just Fine - Trying to Sleep
I don't know who you are, but I'm in your land
I don't know how I got underneath the sand
I've been trying to sleep
I've been trying to sleep for you

Blackbriar - You're Haunting Me
You look so familiar to me
Like I know you from a dream
Or another life, maybe
Like a distant memory
You're haunting me

What greater weapon is there than to turn an enemy to your cause? To use their own knowledge against them? –Bastila
Surma - Rendition
[instrumental]

When the Mandalorian threat first arose, Revan and Malak were eager to defeat the enemy of the Republic. –Zhar Lestin
Everdawn - Rider of the Storm
You're born to ride above the skies
Destroying someone's paradise
Glanced crusades of ravaged lands
There is no limit to our trance

Another call of restless hearts
Another land is torn apart
Your entertainments darkest light
The world we knew will end tonight

Within Temptation - The Reckoning
As cold as stone, they march in darkness
Enslaving the young and killing their fathers
But soon they'll know the path they've chosen
Has carved their faith in stone

But the council thought it best if we moved with care and caution. The true threat, the council feared, had not yet revealed itself. But Revan would not be dissuaded. –Zhar Lestin
Beast in Black - Crazy Mad Insane
You built a kingdom of hypocrisy
And then you dared to name it honesty
I bear the burden of the blame
That you poured on me

When they left after the Mandalorian Wars ended, they were Jedi. When they returned… they were something else. –Carth Onasi
Moonlight Haze - Nameless City
Maybe I should have listened to their warnings
And shun this place, but now it's too late
To satisfy my hunger for the unknown
I may soon die, I'm sure it was worth it

Vision Divine - Were I God
Were I God
Believe me you'd stand by the rules I want
No more free will, you don't deserve it
Were I God
I'd fly from North to South around the World
And make you kneel down
A snap, goodbye
In the blink of an eye

With each conquest thousands more flocked to join the invaders, swelling their numbers. Even many of our own Order have betrayed us, lured by Sith promises of riches and power. For two years the Sith were all but invincible. –Dorak
Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history

Blackbriar - I'd Rather Burn
But know I'll return and I'll be dead awake
I'll be dead awake, rising from the stake

One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of enemy attack! You swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now it's time to make good on that oath! –Trask Ulgo
Temperance - Way Back Home
I can't remember my previous name
I can't remember people over me
I see the dawn between heaven and hell
I have no friends and yet I have no rights
By the sea but I can't see the tides
I feel alone in this lonely world

Are you certain Revan is truly dead? What if we undertake to train this one, and the Dark Lord should return? –Vrook Lamar
Ad Infinitum - Live Before You Die
Tonight a thought crosses your mind
Has our world become blind?
Your story books never revealed the whole truth
That stands behind the veil covering your eyes

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - A Stranger I Remain
I've come here from nowhere
Across the unforgiving sea
Drifting further and further
It’s all becoming clear to me
The violent winds are upon us and I can't sleep
Internal temperatures rising
And all the voices won't recede

Match found? What the…! It always muttered something about 'rejected patterns' for me! –Jolee Bindo
Wolfie's Just Fine - Trying to Sleep
Under perfection I woke
As you protected your home
Oh, I just kept getting stronger
I did my best to control
The growing unrest in my soul
I could suppress it no longer (no longer)
I tried to sleep for you

Blackbriar - You're Haunting Me
You look so familiar to me
Like I know you from a dream
Or another life, maybe
Like a distant memory
You're haunting me

You can't hide from what you once were, Revan! Recognise that you were once the Dark Lord! And know that I have taken your place! –Darth Malak
Volturian - Crimson Dust
[instrumental]

Reasons Behind - Binary Stars
Ain't no jail, no chains 'round my feet
But there’s something that keeps me here, consuming everything
The lie they just fed me with is stuck inside of me:
I can't run away, can’t wake up from this dreamless sleep

Ego Likeness - Burn Witch Burn
And the jury of my peers has yet to learn my name
And the congregation of your fear refuses me my name

Once again, we shall face each other in single combat, and the victor will decide the fate of the galaxy. –Darth Malak
Delain - Burning Bridges
All my bridges are falling apart
I've got a torch
With a thorn that fits
In your heart
Can you hear me?

Within Temptation - Trophy Hunter
In the end, we go our own way when time comes, no one can stay
Why is nothing ever easy and the truth is never straight?
Slowly learning how to be me
All alone but I can see
That I never will give in, no always free

Saviour, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all of these things, Revan... and yet you are nothing. In the end, you belong to neither the light nor the darkness. You will forever stand alone. –Darth Malak
Ad Infinitum - Lullaby
Echoes of my name, forever will survive
I'll never really die
Some will acclaim it while some others will despise
Torments I can't deny
Tell me what is wrong or right
Bringing death with the intention of saving a life
Oh my dear don't fall down
I paid the price a thousand times

Comments

[annathecrow]

I've been listening to this fanmix since last week, and I have to say, I'm enjoying it a lot. As a work background, granted, so I'm definitely not giving it the attention it deserves, but hey.

The repeated songs threw me off the first time - honestly thought that was a mistake at first - but I think I get what you're trying to do with that.

Can't say any of those songs really made me go "OMG this is Revan!!1!" ("A Stranger I Remain" is probably closest, with the "Because I am a stranger who has found -- An even stranger war"), BUT the tone/genre as a whole really did! Several times I stopped and went "oh yeahhhhh, Revan is definitely this, whatever it is". Still not sure what, tho. XD Melodic metal?

Favorite song: "Wolfie's Just Fine - Trying to Sleep" -- I love the sound, but also "I don't know how I got underneath the sand" gives me the worst Tatooine/Jakku vibes, dammit.

[extrapenguin]

I discovered one could repeat songs on YouTube playlists and immediately knew I had to get cute with my Revan playlist. The first block is the playing-without-spoilers bit of "okay, must save Bastila – oh hey, I'm a Jedi? Sweet!", then there's The Reveal, then we jump back to the start of the Mandalorian Wars and continue chronologically through Revan's life. I tried to get songs that could be interpreted multiple ways and picked different pull quotes to contextualize them. IDK how well it worked, but I wanted to do it.

Most of the songs are symphonic metal! Centuries, Trying to Sleep, and A Stranger I Remain (and perhaps Crazy Mad Insane) are the outliers, but I think everything else gets the symphonic metal label.