Where are the official lyrics

@@mania1916 you can look through the wiki :)

Eh? That makes more sense? I always interpreted “Come to me, ten billion years in an instant.” As all the shock of the knowledge of the backyard and what that entails.

@@k.w.pillsbury4070 idk, to me I feel like it's weird that Delilah comes to Bedman first. The next line says he'll come to her in an instant, question is why would he come to her if she already comes to him? The consuming part I think can be interpreted as him not waiting in the afterlife and just consuming those years to come to her in an instant. Idk if that makes sense, everyone has different ways to interpret the song. What I care the most is the fact that this song slaps as hell and Naoki and Daisuke did a great job once again.

​@@Tilde_ShiiThe personal way I interpret it is that "Consuming Ten Billion years in an instant" is Romeo's life flashing before his eyes. Obviously life isn't 10 billion years long, but it seems that way a lot of the time, doesn't it?

Do you hear the beautiful chant?

​@@wangwang2211 "what the fuck did you just fucking say about me you little bitch, I'll have you know-" -the beautiful chant

"We talk about 'survival of the fittest' a lot but all that really means is the skilled live and the unskilled die. Since you're clearly in that second group, maybe pick your fights a bit more carefully? Do you understand what I'm saying? It's never going to matter how much you 'want it' when you're up against someone who can kill you with a sneeze."

Because of Bedman’s current situation, I thinks it’s appropriate to say that nothing is more dangerous that a broken death machine that knows how to maneuver it’s malfunctions into more deadly weapons to add to its arsenal

Bedman?

I don't think he has a choice to go to Heaven, its more that he chose this path of eternal damnation and being a lingering bed ghost by the actions he made. But he has some consolation knowing Delilah is safe and happy for once in her life and if anyone threatens that he can still act to make sure she stays that way.

He didn't give up a chance to go to Heaven. He died and realized there ISN'T any. No light, no chant, no warmth. Death is the end, there's nothing. That's why he's trying so hard to save Delilah from harm. She's not gonna join him at the end.

Aren't they so powerful they basically lived in the backyard? (wow that came out funny not including context) I always saw it as Badman just swapping places with Delilah in backyard, hence turning to stone and (probably), like a butterfly, releasing Delilah. Maybe for the reason of how powerful they both are they can't co-exist together physically, but since it's the "first" time for delilah outside backyard, she's not controlling her powers well enough (hence the DLC for strive where she almost goes "Justice and Japan 2.0"), while bedman already mastered magic while sleeping, prompting him to be able to influence things all the way from the backyard like how he controls his bed here, while Delilah was but a baby in using magic and couldn't do anything outside backyard but watch him/chat with him when he's at the backyard. Don't worry, i didn't understand what i said either, the beauty of guilty gear's lore...

@@romosome this is the most accurate interpretation

Personally I could see that as those things being their last link to humanity, zato and Millia, bedman and Delilah, the thing that tethers them to the living world without them they’d be nothing more than walking corpses and angry ghosts

The Irony that the Universal Will who eradicated Bedman is now locked up with no purpose. While Bedman's Will still exist in the form of his Bed.

Some return with the will to succeed their final wish. What of those whose will is the life of another? To take that life, they lose all. To save that life, they ascend.

You mean a Requiem? I think the word you're looking for is "Requiem."

​@Mr. JvGravy Universal will was being puppeted by chaos who is still free cuz he's the strongest character in the setting (-God I'no)

Romeo (Bedman's name, Delilah mentions it at the end of her Arcade mode with Ram) knows he died and is actively ignoring it just to protect Delilah

At the same time one gave up on caring about anything and the other still holds onto a shred if their humanity, I think bedman won in the end

that's a really interesting point. Both come face to face with the sense of nihilism that comes with the realization of the inconsequentiality of their actions, but they try to break free from that nihilism in different ways. Happy Chaos seeks out personal pleasure as well as he attempts to enlighten others, he wants to stop humanity from discarding what makes them human, as he feels that the desires that make us up are all that matters. In terms of morality his approach is one of everyone following their desires as they know what they want better than anyone. Bedman and Bedman? regardless as to whether they are the same or if they are deeply connected yet distinct entities chose a philosophy that's a bit closer to feminist ethics, which is that they valued relationships and personal connections over some supposed duty to humanity. And this sense of relation sticks with them even as nothing more than a lingering sense of will

"Fuck it we ball" - Happy Chaos

"Fuck it we ball." (Positive) - Happy Chaos "Fuck it we ball." (Negative) - Bedman?

​@@ToiLanhLIVE Not really. Happy Chaos still wants to see humanity succeed and grow, and especially hold on to what makes them human. He doesn't hold anything specific close, but to quote the man himself in his song, "I don't have anything that's really important to me, that's why everything is beautiful" Because he doesn't have any material connections, he sees everything with the same sense of wonder and beauty with fresh, unclouded eyes. He just loves existence.

The way the vocals just end there mid sentence instead of finishing like before with "on the border of the circle" while the instrumental continues a bit makes it feel as though the singer has simply vanished. It's like a noticable emptiness that feels kind of profound.

​​@@jetsetdizzy9433or like he's left the circle of rebirth and now he really is there

The entire song is giga sad, but God those choruses hurt man

​@@Raidon484 The bed became real *run*

@@jetsetdizzy9433 I think it's more him consoling his sister. Without the "on the border of the circle" the message goes from what happened to him after death to what is important to him now: he's there, by his sisters side. nothing else needs to be said.

*REQUIEM GUILTY GEA-*

Just like metal gear rising

@@SgtFrogger better than metal gear rising imo but that is just me still metal gear rising soundtrack is amazing

Guilty Gear Strive and Metal Gear Rising are both musicals

@@taterthepenguin I know you don't mean musicals traditionally, but now I'm just imagining Metal Gear Rising as a low budget stage musical akin to a high school play and Raiden and Sam are belting while just slowly "running" (more like slow walking to simulate slow motion) to clash at each other.

​@@taterthepenguin That's such an awesome revelation you just dropped on us. Can't seem to stop smiling about that. Thank you!

That last bit about younger siblings is exactly why I tear up a little when listening to the song tbh. I'm a believer in the idea that Bedman gave up the chance to pass on and is possessing the bed, but the bed can only allocate so many resources before needing to "delete" him and bring him back, thus putting him in a death loop, all for Delilah. It's something I can look at and try to put myself in that situation and it genuinely makes me sad to think about.

Even if they're super annoying?

@@brickpuncher1429 especially when they're super annoying

Love is real.

​@@brunop.8745 Real shit

@@squek__ what country is that flag and why are all the hot women from it

You forgot “while also making them so dang emotional”

​@@nebbygetinthebag7263don't forget about the hot men too bro

"surely you can't hear the beautiful chant"

speak for yourself, to me this was love at first listen babyyyyyyyyy

I was shocked at first because it sounds a little different than the trailer, but now i can't stop listening to it.

Litterally every song has done that, how do they make it happen every time

This is very accurate for me since the trailer had all the guitar parts but when the theme got released it sounded weird now it’s one of my favorites in the soundtrack

fr at start I only like the chorus or big bangers of the song but then I realize the whole song was a banger to begin with

I love hearing other people's interpretations of this song. I personally think that beyond the circle there's nothing - just an infinite void of nothingness beyond the circle, which is why Bedman asks god if he can see the radiant light and all that, to which the song responds with no, there isn't any heaven, any god or anything beyond the circle, just an infinite void of nothingness, so Bedman decides he's going to cheat death just to protect Delilah. This man would rather put himself in a hell of his own creation to protect his sister and atone for the sins he committed rather than die.

Damn. I liked my interpretation better, even though yours is probably correct. I thought that section was talking about his love for Delilah, and him being able to feel their connection as siblings on a deeper level now that he has lost his corporeal form. But because she's still alive, she can't feel it. The lyrics at the end "I'm here, I'm here" is what he wishes he could tell her, but because he has no corporeal form, he won't be able to tell her anything ever again.

@@nexuszero2683 Here I interpreted it as the bedframe asking his creator (Bedman) if there was anything more and Bedman responding That there's nothing.

(Read at bedman xrd speeds) Is this why we like the song? To debate the meaning and meaning alone? I like going on long rants, but I don’t get why everyone here is so defensive of the excellence of this song, it feels honestly kind of one note, figuratively obviously not literally because a one note song would not even be a song anymore by most definitions, no, I instead mean the lack of key changes and how little of a range the singer goes through, maybe it is the fact that one of my favorite songs and characters are Faust and alone infection respectively, but if that biases this argument then so be it as this was always a subjective take anyway, but I grew up on carry on my wayward son and need some amount of pace or key change, or at least a good chord progression to keep me hooked on a song, but this song feels like a slip ‘n slide with how smooth it feels, and not in the cool jazz way, but in the elevator music kind of way, and yet you lure me in, not because of this song, but how much I sometimes get where bedman is coming from with the xrd monologues and the lyrics of the song, and it annoys me just enough that I have to come here because I’ve had random ggst songs stuck in my head for the past three weeks because that’s when I first got into it and now I have to talk about it because of one random comment I saw on a teirlist ranking the songs back then feeling betrayed it wasn’t in like the top three, and while I do have some abnormal opinions, like liking requiem more than most, but frankly, in the end, I am seriously just curious and confused about why someone would like this specific song so much, even with better existential pieces like the gravity and drift, and better chill songs that you can just throw on in the background like trigger, which literally has vibe in the song, what I’m basically saying is just please explain why someone would genuinely think this is deserving of a place in like the top 4 songs

@@ianweckhorst3200 Because I see the circle

glad to see im not the only one who had this thought. though it may be extra sad it makes so much sense.

​@@ovi___ It does cut off abruptly. So yes.

​@@Berd-Wasted. WAIT ARE YOU THE GUY FROM THE SUBREDDIT

​@@SCP--rj8hm he is This fucker is everywhere

That's a banger interpretation, but I'm not sure about it. The intro of the song feels like what Romeo would see *after* dying. A place where there's no beginning or end, no peace, and silence, it's Purgatory. Repeatedly it states that there's "A radiant light, a beautiful chance, a tender warmth" but there's "Nothing here", nothing in that Purgatory, like he's being called to Heaven, but he can't (or won't) go. There's another line which emphasizes "Pitch black, Pure white, all the same!" As though Romeo stopped caring about whether he goes to Heaven or Hell, either is awful because he's leaving Delilah behind. I think the rest of the song is about him fighting to try and get back to the world of the living, to leave the Circle of Purgatory. He spends the first 2 choruses "On the border of the Circle", but by the end he states that "I struggled to go outside the Circle!", like he's finally made it out, finally found some semblance of a way to escape Purgatory, even though he's not able to fully communicate through the Bed. He states in the final chorus that "I may not be able to make you smile, but I'll never make you cry, even once, never!" If you look back at the earlier choruses, the line is "I'm here, I'm here. On the border of the circle!" The reason why he says "I'm here, I'm here!" at the very end without following up is because he's finally *here*, in the real world with Delilah. He gave up his shot at going to heaven, at moving on and being able to just exist in a state of pure bliss, because his sister was finally awake, and he wanted to be back with her, to protect her. At least, that's my interpretation. Yours feels just as reasonable. Maybe the Bed is just running around because it was left with the subroutine to protect Delilah. The Arcade Mode seems to indicate that the Bed is just a Bed (given that everyone refers to it that way). The and Guilty Gear official website seems to indicate it's a Bed (hell, the link is literally "www.guiltygear.com/ggst/en/character/bed/", not /bedman?, not /bedman, just /bed). I still think there's something more here, because it feels (to me) like the Circle is literally calling back to the image of Purgatory and the circles of Heaven and Hell, and that the rest of the lyrics just don't quite sync up to the interpretation that this just Romeo's last moments.

Being too brothely to die is the realest shit i have seen a bed do

Gives me some Deftones vibes which is fitting for this sequence

You're not going to heaven, bedboy

@@nobleradical2158 I can't help but read this in a southern accent

Kinda funny, you can sleep after knowing BEDman theme lyrics

Except there's probably like one line that's wrong and we won't find out until they drop a second album

@@svgaming263 yeah especially the part at 1:36 feels like hes saying something else

You can go to bed... man

@@weckardo yea I keep thinking it says count instead of come

Copy : *That*

Eyes:Crying

GOD

@@TufukinsDO YOU SEE THAT RADIANT LIGHT?

One after : the other

I interpreted the first two "copy that" lines as being spoken by the bedframe, accepting Bedman's program and operating thusly. The third, though, is Bedman accepting his circumstances and the hellish hardship he's up against. If it's for Delilah, he's ready to play.

I can agree with that. Because if you listen. The first two times he speaks that. There’s the sound of what sounds like the bed starting up. The third “Copy That” doesn’t have that robotic sound

there is a program booting noise on the first two 'copy that', almost like it is following bedman's orders, but the third one has the same voice as the rest of the song and no booting noise which i think implies it is now sentient

All I know is that reminds me of that one old gamestop ad with the most awkward performance in all of everything on the read of that same line

so real….i love that detail, thank you for pointing it out!!

zatos theme must have hit something fierce then too huh?

Beautifully said.

Lingering Will from Kingdom Hearts is my other favorite example of this

Beautiful

So something like Strive's Faust?

I know the smell of the game, and it smells fucking beautiful

@@brickpuncher1429 So how your brick punching been going?

​​@@brickpuncher1429so hows your brick punching been going?

WHO TOUCHED THE CHILD? NOBODY!

That last one... Q_Q

Yep, ironic as hell

The first line has to be interpreted more as "The existence of YOUR family does not give you strength" than as "The existence of a family does not give strength to anyone" Second one he really didn't know how motivated he was. Third one is just a interpretation of the concept of ghost, if you think about it he is already foreshadowing that he himself will defies the concept of death

Damn, dude really said "⭕️"

According to a comment on a different video of this song, the circle is a referance to a theory that all of time is happening at once, but humans can only see one point of time. In the theory time is represented as a circle, and supposedly Bedman? Is able to see al of the circle, or all of time,at once which is backed up by the lyric "comes to me 10 billion years in an instant". So the song is about how he can see everything from the beginning of time to the end of time, and is choosing to focus on Delilah.

I legit could not stop laughing

I thought he said "TACO" fr

@@Cattomic_Bomb That... would actually make a lot of sense. Nice find

I feel you, it’s quickly becoming one of my favorites

@@trihexa7096 I can confidently say this is my nr 1 GG song. Feels are just too damn strong.

This one is definitely up there

as a sibling, i relate spiritually with this song, and I don't even play strive, it just fits the whole purpose of being a sibling in the first place.

Older sibling gang rise up

It’s still good to listen into in game idk wtf these goobers been talking about

It makes me feel like a final boss ngl

if you have a great battle then you will be able to hear all of it

Is that the real Adachi from the hit video game "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4?"

@@flubberdubbert yes.

Shut up adachi

Wooow I love "I've watched and you've been alone" so much more

But now on the GG wiki: "And if the words that won't go West to ruin my head" (wtf what does the West have to do with it) "Where I can't find with access to the back of my eyelids" (What does its mean?) "No" is actually still "No"

That doesn't actually work out though, because his arcade mode is about him trying to get himself killed by a strong enough opponent

@@esn_64 Only because he sees himself as a threat to Delilah's happiness. The song is probably sung after arcade mode when he realizes Delilah wants to keep him around.

bedman loves his sister so much when he dies he mourns and doesn't let go

What I think in the first do you see/hear/feel line followed by nothing here was bedman starting to die but couldn't see heaven, instead getting a sort of rush of the crushing weight of reality coming to him in seconds. The second time though the nothing here is interrupted with a no you CAN'T see/hear/feel if you can give someone something I think is God directly telling bedman he can't go to heaven because he still has a duty to his sister.

@@VengefulJay Yeah, the part about duty is what I thought too. He has unfinished business, and we all know what that means.

yeah

Even after listening other lyrics vídeos I had to come here to see that parts.

Here too 4:17

cloud drop is sick like that, some of the other ones have similar syncs that make the video very nice

No no no. That sounds entirely like Happy Chaos.

It's Twitter, mate. They hate anything that isn't up to their standards. If they even had any.

*twitter* Yeah, no surprises there mate

I'm glad I don't use Twitter... My standards must be kept safe

Its not fighting game music at all. Whether this is a good song or not doesnt matter because this is a fucking snore to fight to

Its a good song to fight to, or at least it would be if you could here the full song during fighting. Thats a flaw a lot of these strive songs seem to have, theyre good as a whole but they dont take into account that since fights are so short you often dont get far past the intro.

Because of course they are.

Same here.

Same and make a free download of the song

Since the game in pc is in a unplayable state atm, I came here as the obvious next choice.

New elphelt dropped

WE HEARIN THE RADIANT LIGHT WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@@Gamer_Lizard_68 WE SEEIN THE BEAUTIFUL CHANT WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

​​@@ee-qs8gfWE FEELING A TENDER WARMTH WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

WE CONSUMING TEN BILLION YEARS IN AN INSTANT (I CANT FUCKING MAKE FIRE EMOJIS ON MOBILE)

​@@Hot_RashBlazeBoilI gochu 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

time to go to bed, old man

im too tired to read this shit, im just gonna go to bed, man

Man

Yup; i'm going to have this stuck in my head rent free for a very long long time..

"ONE AFTER THE OTHER, OVER AND OVER AGAIN-"

@@Nikowo1610 CIRCLE!

The pendulum thing could be that Bedman’s found a new goal? Something that he can focus on? I’m out of the ballpark there but maybe it’s some sort of thing to do.

Maybe that line about watching a "new pendulum" over and over has something to do with how he was stuck for a long time, just thinking of a way he can reach out to the world of the living? In the second verse, I hear "Where my left hand can't reach", which reflects his bed's broken left hand as well as his inability to impact the living world while in what is effectively purgatory. Also in the second verse, I hear "But I can find you with access to the back of my eye lids". In life: Bedman was at his strongest while he was dreaming, eyes closed, effectively looking at the back of his eye lids. If only he could close his eyes and dream, he would find the solution to his problem faster, but he's dead. I think "if you can give someone something" might be him contemplating how he can protect his sister and maybe redeem himself (because it kinda seems like he's going to hell if he doesn't). I think by the end of the song: he's finally pierced through the veil of purgatory so he can control the bed and help Delilah, while he struggles to do so throughout the rest of the track.

I like to think the line “If you can give someone something” means Bedman’s commanding the bed to give Delilah what he never had in life: A peaceful life without having to harm anyone for what she wants!

For the pedulem comment, he says "*new* pendulem" maybe hes talking about life, in the way that it ticks away like a pedulem slowly slowing down, and he sees either the *new* pendulem as his life in deatb or delilah's life. Does that make sense, not really. But thats what i though of after 2 minutes

I have the same feelings when it comes to the circle meaning the circle of life and bedmam begin of the egde of it, but in my opinion the "Comes 10 billion Years in a instant and ill come to you without a second thought" is referning to bedmans ability to instantly processes information and the fact that even though he always talks about rationality and doing what's smart, he still acts according to his feelings when it comes to Delilah.

Going to be honest his growls are good

My other comment is I wish there is part that he sings very fast like how Bedman speaks lol.

Am going to be honest he does not growl

I can't think of a single Naoki miss

@@Gloomdrake Smell of the Game....

oh dude, this rules

God wouldn't it be cool if instead of Bedman he was named Deathbed

​@@Nikowo1610 Sounds metal AF and i love it

To save *her* sister? /Gen

@@notwhisp thanks

The sheer amount of ways this song can be interpreted is amazing, while still being a banger of a song too.

I really like that interpretation actually, I never even thought about it. My general interpretation of this song is that it's a recording of Romeo's final moments that act as the basis for Bedman?'s core, but your interpretation could also work quite well. This is a machine who exists to serve the purpose of being a guardian, and nothing more, so when it can no longer fully perform it's task it becomes obsolete and has no meaning. This would also make their arcade mode story much more meaningful, as Delilah's pleading for Bedman? to stop fighting doesn't have to do with their status as a protector, but instead because she associates it with her brother and can't afford to lose it. She doesn't value it for its intended purpose, but instead as a source of strength and support. Bedman? the machine does not see life beyond it's own programming, and yet the person who they are supposed to protect is still desperately trying to give them a life to live

Great interpretation i like this more than if it's abit of bedmans soul feels like what ya said makes more sense and would be way cooler

I honestly believe the Bed is it's own Being, it has the same Red Glow of Life as Reborn Faust, the two being in the story together to me feels intentional

@@nevrikx I was thinking about this myself, or at least something somewhat similar. I don't think the bed is literally possessed by Romeo, but in some capacity is acts as a remnant of Romeo's will, or at least it did. In the arcade mode, Delilah manages to change the bed's behavior and change what their purpose is, and at that moment it ceases being a remnant of Romeo's will and instead becomes a culmination of both Romeo and Delilah's wills, thus giving form to something new and unique from either of the siblings

Good quote m8.

Seriously, this song is badass, sad, and touching!

criminally underrated comment i cackled

10 billion years in the backyard i wanted to see my sister, i compromised. i got reincarnated into a bed

"a character no one really liked ot cared about in xrd" U what mate?

You were doing so well, but then you exploded at the finish line :(

We don't know about that, but His indomitable will and love is here to protect Delilah at all cost

@@heracrossz7701 playing Bedman XRD copypasta **BEEP**

Aren’t souls and spirits like a recurring thing in guilty gear? Regardless though, i kinda interperated it similarely but instead the reason theres no “salvation/warmth” is because bedman cannot, and will not move on without knowing his sister is safe. That would make the line “If you can give someone something” make more sense, with bedman not moving on until he’s given Delilah security. I love this song so much dude

Funnily enough, I interpret it in the entirely opposite way. The lyrics continue with "if you can give someone something". Bedman *could have* seen the radiant light, beautiful chants and tender warmth, but he choose to stay in with the living, at the border of the circle of life and death, and protect his sister. He could have resigned on life and on the ability to have effect on the world to move beyond, but didn't

@@IStealYourZs This is also the way I interpreted it. He could've "pass on" now that he was dead, but he decided to stay behind in the limbo between life and death (border of the circle on Samsara) to protect Delilah through the bed. Pretty sad stuff

gay as hell nihlism

I didn’t really take it that way, I saw that bit as Delilah not seeing her brother’s perspective, she was still alive, can’t hear the chant or feel the warmth of heaven

I just love that, the fact that the whole song he's struggling to get out of that "circle", and the final part, "I'm here, I'm here" with a sound of relief in the voice, and followed by nothing more, at the end of the song he managed to get out of that circle and come to his sister, I truly believe the end of the song is the beginning of the fight, when he comes from nowhere to protect his sister.

@@tamiko_chxn4974 it can also mean that he's here... but then the circle begins again. That's why it ends abruptly in silence.

A punishment worse than death, being a mathematician major 😔

That's basically on character for him lol

bruh no its him realizing he cant get into heaven because he has attachments in life

@@erfaniom9576 yup but i still find it pretty funny to say ahah

You can finally hear the beautiful chant.

Do you see the radiant light? (or did you go blind?)

@@hoodless_1 both

Oh

..same

(although I think the lyrics are pretty hard to determine so it might be like drift where it's reuploaded with fixed lyrics after a while)

Same