Bastion OST~17. Mother, I'm Here(Zulf's Theme)

This music plays near the end of the game...for what reason? You'll have to find out.

I set my sail
fly the wind it will take me
back to my home, sweet home

Lie on my back
clouds are making way for me
I'm coming home, sweet home

I see your star you left it burning for me
Mother, I'm here

Eyes open wide
feel your heart and it's glowing
I'm welcome home, sweet home

I take your hand
now you'll never be lonely
not when I'm home, sweet home

I see your star, you left it burning for me
Mother, I'm here

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Bastion and it's music is copyright to Supergiant Games and Warner Brothers Games Studios.

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[VillainousOperative]

When that one just carried on shooting, and then got knocked out by the others...

[Gravenkal]

I felt so great when they stopped shooting.

[LuckyLokiLuko]

Zulf's back story really got me. He came from nothing, spent his life promoted to peace, fell in love, made a home for himself in Caelondia. To suddenly lose it all and then to find out that the people he devoted himself to betrayed him so completely and utterly; I can understand the choices he made, and it really chokes me up.

[SandPaperbatVG]

*sigh* oh Zulf... why...?

[charmagician]

@shurhaian oh, undouptebly, they're both there, and i think so too, but, in "who knows where,"

its part of the kids back story,when his time on the walls was done, he arived home to only to

find that "his mothers time was up too" as Rucks says.

eveybody seemed to be stating their theorys, so, i joined in.

[crowcade]

Most manly vidya tears I've ever shed.

[shurhaian]

@charmagician I don't doubt that the parallel is there and intentional. In light of it being a funeral song for the world of the game, though (which, note, has been stated by the composer as the idea that the song started from), returning to the Lorn Mother makes at least as much sense to me as being reunited with any mortal mother (who might not be dead, especially in a city with such a richly militaristic culture - sons predeceasing their parents doesn't seem all that unlikely).

[charmagician]

@shurhaian or, it could be refering to the kid's mom, who *spoiler* died while he was working on the rippiling wall. just some food for thought

[shurhaian]

@Ellio Mmm. It does seem more appropriate to Caelondia than it does to Ura, even in that light. Funeral song I can well believe - and "Mother" in either case may well refer not to any biological mother, but to Micia the Lorn Mother, Goddess of Loss and Longing. "We are all born from the Lorn Mother, and to Her we all return..." or something to that effect. (Stranger's Dream)

[Ellio]

@shurhaian It's not meant to be specifically Ura, especially since it relates to the Kid so heavily, with the mother themes and all. However, Darren did say during an interview that it was meant to be a funeral song:

"My approach for this one was to write a song that might be sung at funerals in the world of the game."

Source: kotaku.com/5871695/the-best-ga­me-music-of-2011-bastion