Lifelight

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Lifelight (命の灯火, Life's Light) is the main theme for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It was first revealed in instrumental form at E3 2018, while the full vocal version and the theme's title were first revealed at the end of the November 1st, 2018 Super Smash Bros. Direct during the trailer for Adventure Mode: World of Light. The theme is composed and arranged by Hideki Sakamoto, sung in English by Abby Trott, and in Japanese by Erina Koga. Both the English and Japanese versions of "Lifelight" can be selected as alternate menu music in My Music after clearing World of Light.

Lyrics

The song's lyrics can be found on the game's official website, on the Music page. The lyrics can be accessed by clicking on an animated twinkling star in the background of the theme's banner.

English

Colors weave into a spire of flame
Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed
Bear this torch against the cold of the night
Search your soul and reawaken the undying light

On that day, when the sky fell away
Our world came to an end
In our eyes, did a fading sun rise in the dark?
Glimmering shadows

Silence grows, in the spaces between
stretching out beyond time
Rising up, as a chorus of souls find a voice
flickering through the void

These little sparks, cling on to life,
everyone caught in the struggle,
And then the storms of change, they fan the flames
scattering ashes to the wind

Every soul contains a whisper of light
gleaming faintly as it dwindles from sight
No escape, no greater fate to be made
In the end, the chains of time will not break

Colors weave into a spire of flame
Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed
Bear this torch against the cold of the night
Search your soul and reawaken the undying light

As fate spins a thread without end,
new life draws its first breath,
Blossoming in a soil reclaimed from the past,
where destiny holds fast,

Here where we stand, hand clenched in hand
everyone caught in the struggle,
This is the day we finally find our way
stepping into our tomorrow

Every soul contains a whisper of light
growing louder as it calls to unite
From the distance sings a chorus of souls
rising slowly, stirring heat from the coals

Colors weave into a spire of flame
Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed
Bear this torch against the cold of the night
Light will guide you, on your way to the ultimate fight

Every soul contains a whisper of light
growing louder as it calls to unite
From the distance sings a chorus of souls
rising slowly, stirring heat from the coals

Colors weave into a spire of flame
Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed
Bear this torch against the cold of the night
Light will guide you, on your way to the ultimate fight

Japanese

Kana	Romaji	Translation
とりどりの色たちがつむぐ　炎の螺旋 果てしなく続いてく　はるかから受け継いだ光	toridori no irotachi ga　tsumugu honō no rasen hateshi naku tsudzuite ku　haruka kara uketsuida hikari	A rainbow of colors spins into spiral of flame Inherit the distant, undying light
空が落ちたあの日　目にしたのは 朽ちる明星か　尽きない宵闇か	sora ga ochita ano hi　me ni shita no wa kuchi ru myōjō ka tsukinai yoiyami ka	On that day, the sky fell away Is there a fading sun in the endless night?
永遠(とわ)に続くような　しじまの中 無数の魂が　ほのかな鼓動を打つ	towa ni tsudzuku yōna　shijima no naka musū no tamashī ga hono kana kodō wo utsu	The everlasting silence in between A myriad of souls, a faint heartbeat
命の灯火　全ての人たち 吹き抜けてゆく風に　身をゆだねたまま	inochi no tomoshibi　subete no hitotachi fukinukete yuku kaze ni mi wo yudaneta mama	Everyone's lights of life Left their body in the wind blowing through
生けるものが　かすかな光を放ち消える 悠久の刻の中駆ける　さだめと絆	ikerumono ga　kasukana hikari wo hanachi kieru yūkyū no toki no naka kakeru sadame to kizuna	These living things release faint light Unable to escape time, the chains of destiny
とりどりの色たちがつむぐ　炎の螺旋 果てしなく続いてく　はるかから受け継いだ光	toridori no irotachi ga　tsumugu honō no rasen hateshi naku tsudzuite ku　haruka kara uketsuida hikari	A rainbow of colors spins into spiral of flame Inherit the distant, undying light
めぐる因果の中　息が芽吹き 新たなる命が包む　この大地で	meguru inga no naka　ikiga mebuki arata naru inochi ga tsutsumu kono daichi de	As fate spins, a breath will sprout New life will begin in this earth
戦い　交わる　全ての人たち 立ち上がり踏み出して　明日へ進みゆく	tatakai　majiwaru　subete no hitotachi tachiagari fumidashite asu e susumiyuku	Everyone is caught in the struggle Together we step forward, facing tomorrow
生けるものが　かすかな光で織りなす星 悠久の彼方まで　魂たちは歌う	ikerumono ga　kasukana hikari de orinasu hoshi yūkyū no kanata made tamashi-tachi wa utau	These living things are faint light, joining into a star Until the end of time, our souls will sing
とりどりの色たちがつむぐ　炎の螺旋 果てしなく続いてく　どこまでも流れゆく光	toridori no irotachi ga　tsumugu honō no rasen hateshi naku tsudzuite ku　doko ma demo nagare yuku hikari	A rainbow of colors spins into spiral of flame Wherever you're led by the distant, undying light

Gallery

Theme video
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Theme video in Japanese
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Trivia

• This is the first main theme to have an official title.
• While the main theme of Super Smash Bros. Brawl has vocals in Latin, this one has full vocals in both English and Japanese, a series first.
  • Coincidentally, both main themes are the only ones in the series that can be used as alternate menu music (as opposed to remixes) via My Music.
• The English lyrics of the song on the game's official website used to contain an inconsistency in the seventh verse: the sung lyrics are "where destiny holds fast", while the printed lyrics were "where our future holds fast". On November 6th, 2018, this inconsistency was fixed on most English versions of the website, but it remained on the North American version, until it was fixed approximately two weeks later.
• A part of the theme is used for the Mii Fighters victory theme.
• A slightly slower, non-vocalized version of Lifelight can be heard during the game's first teaser trailer. The same remix can be heard in the World of Light opening cutscenes as Kirby overlooks the desolate landscape.
• The E3 instrumental version of Lifelight, heard during the "Everyone is Here" trailer, is absent, but not completely as the second to last vocal part of the song was used for the final boss fight between Galeem and Dharkon.