A blogger friend of mine, oOgA, posted on his site (TBE), about the two FFXIII songs (one for English edition, one for Japanese edition) with a poll and post here.

Honestly?

FFXIII’s storyline is angst. And emo. And about loss and everything, god knows what. The insert song reminds me greatly about Snow and Serah, “Because You Are Here”, the entire thing. I could probably interpret it in god knows how many different ways, even more if I HAD English translation lyrics.

“My Hands” just doesn’t bring that out, I guess. Maybe for Lightning, I guess? But it gives a feeling of the person being free of restraints, sounds more like a love song haha.

Oh well.

I think I’ll do a literary breakdown when I get English translations for Kimi ga Iru Kara.