It's a malay song which I'm quite fond of (being a Malaysian and a Malay :P ). The song is sung by a local singer and she's pretty cool.

This song reminds me of the time Sephiroth killed Aerith and during the hand reach scene.

I've written the translation at the bottom.

Pulangkan / Return to me by Misha Omar

Seharum bunga yang menggoda
Sekadar dipandang usah dipuja
Kau pasti tak percaya, kasihku bukan
Untukmu Sayang

Tiada kusangka
Kau sungguh kejam
Kau rampas segalanya yang kau dendam
Namun takkan bahgia kehidupanmu
Bila bunyi bersatu
Kau millikku

chorus:
Pulangkan cinta hatiku
Hentikanlah menghantuiku
Pulangkan... oh pulangkanlah padaku
Kupulangkan kesan hidupmu
Yang dikau musnah
Tanpa relaku
Bebaskanlah... Maafkan daku
Oh kasih...

Tiada kemaafan di sini
Kau ragut degupan hatiku ini
Akan kujejakimu ke mana jua
Hingga akhir masa
Sayang...

(bridge)

Pulangkan...cinta hatiku
Hentikanlah menghantuiku
Pulangkan... oh pulangkanlah padaku
Kupulangkan kesan hidupmu
Yang dikau musnah
Tanpa relaku
Bebaskanlah... Maafkan daku
Oh kasih...

Tiada kemaafan di sini
Kau ragut degupan hatiku ini
Akan kujejakimu ke mana jua
Hingga akhir masa
Sayang... Sayang...

English translation

As sweet as a flower that arouses
With just a glance don't worship it
You wouldn't believe that my love
Isn't for you
Love

I didn't expect
that you would be so cruel
You took away everything that you've damned
But your life would never be peaceful
When the music unites
You're mine

chorus:

Return to me the love you stole
Please stop haunting me
Please return to me... return me the love
I return the life I took from you
That you've destroyed without my consent
Please release and forgive me
My dear

There is no forgiveness for you here
You snatched the beating of my heart
I will track you wherever you go
Till the end of time
my dear

(bridge)

Return to me the love you stole
Please stop haunting me
Please return to me... return me the love
I return the life I took from you
That you've destroyed without my consent
Please release and forgive me
My dear

There is no forgiveness for you here
You snatched the beating of my heart
I will track you wherever you go
Till the end of time
My dear...my love...




Well, I'm not a good translator, but this is it fo now.
Will accept any questions about it :) .

question!
lol...not really.. maybe i am slow but is this interpreted as cloud singing to aerith? Sounds kinda angsty... poor cloud 2 years of loneliness has driven him over the wall *huggles cloudy* ^_^

Wow. That's so... sad... angsty. I've always perceived Cloud as the angsty type... it fits them! Hee~! :D

Pretty song!! You're Malaysian? I'm Singaporean!! :D Which part of Malaysia are you from?

Aww... so darkly sweet. ... :P

Well if you're wondering, for this song.

The way the song is sung, it's gives the impression that Cloud is singing to Sephiroth (if I'm not mistaken) to return Aerith to him. Well that's the main reason I posted this song up.

Anyway, here's another song which sort off reminds me of Cloud x Aerith.



Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Andrew Lloyd Webber
(Phantom Of The Opera)

You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once friend and father
Then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I would

Pulsing bells and sculptured angels
Cold and monumental
Seemed for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle (Well, Aerith was the warm and gentle type :P)

Too many years fighting the tears
Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we would say good bye
Try to forgive teach me to live
Give me the strength to try

No more memories no more silent tears
No repeating of lost and wasted years
Help me say good bye
Help me say good bye!



To me it seems more like Cloud saying 'goodbye' to Zack, but it still gives the Cloud x Aerith feel in some parts.

this song reminds me whta cloud might be feeling after aerith "went away", its from the Escaflowne movie, sung by Maaya Sakamoto, its called yubiwa, i think its called Vector in english not sure though lolthe ENglish translation is directly after the parapgraph


namida ga ato kara afuredashite
saigo no egao ga nijinde mienai no
ikanaide ikanaide koko ni ite
sora e hikari kakenukete-yuku [1]
>As my tears keep overflowing one after another,
I can't see your last smile through their blur.
Please don't go, please don't go... Stay here.
Light bursts through the sky. [1]

konna ni chiisa na watashi dakedo
anata wo dare yori sei ippai aishita
arigatou ikutsumo no
taisetsu na kimochi
tewata shite kureta yo ne [2]
>Even this insignificant me
loved you more than anyone, with all my soul.
Thank you for all of
the precious feelings
you've given to me. [2]

"sono toki zutto, watashi wa [3]
kie kaketa hikoukigumo wo mite-ita..."
">When you took off, I was [3]
watching for a long time as the vapor trail disappeared."

wasurenaide
hitori ja nai
hanarete mo te wo tsunaide-iru [4]
>Please don't forget
You're not alone.
Even if we're apart, we can still carry on hand-in-hand. [4]

hajimete no koi hajimete shitta
konna kanashimi ga aru koto
> With my first love, I first realized
that there could be such sorrow.

nanika ga shoumetsu shite mo nanika ga
futatabi yadotte
wakare ni kureta hohoemi wa tsuyoku ikiyou to yuu
anata kara no
MESE-JI
> Even if something lapses away, something will
live once again.
When you gave me a smile as we parted, it was
your message for me
to truly live with all my heart. [5]

itsuka kitto aeru
futari naraba
tookute mo hitomi mitsumeau
kibou to yume no subete wo kakete

> I just know that we'll see each other someday.
If we're together,
even if we're far apart, we can gaze in each others' eyes
Let's bet everything on all our hopes and dreams.

yakusoku wo shiyou yo
ano hi no hageshisa wo
daite
ashita saku mirai wo
ikiru

> Let's promise each other
that we'll hold on to the intensity we felt
that day,
and live the future that blooms
in tomorrow.

Funny, I’ve heard this song so many times, for so long, and never I linked it to CxA, but you are so right.

Now I´ll cry thinking of them each time I hear the music.

This is another song I found which reminds me alot of Cloud and Aerith. It 's form SailorMoon SuperS, one of the ending themes.

It's in japanese and the translation which I found with the lyrics is at the bottom of each verse.

Watashi-tachi ni Naritakute; Want to be Together With You

Anata to deatte kara
Mune no oku de hikatteru
Itoshisa ga setsunakute
Shizuka ni hitomi wo tojita

Ever since I first met you
I've been shining in my heart
My love causes so much sorrow
I broke off my glance so quietly


Nan de mo nai shigusa mo
Goku futsuu no kotoba mo
Omoidasu sono tabi
Namida ga desou ni naru

Your insignificant gestures
And your ordinary words
Every time I think of them
I feel like I'm going to cry


Koi wa Lonely Lonely heart
Hitoribotchi yo
Lonely Lonely heart
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo itsu datte
Watashi dake no yume no naka
Koi wa Lonely Lonely heart
Dakedo kitto itsu no hi ni ka
Anata no tsuyoi ude ni dakarenagara
Watashi-tachi ni naritakute...

Love brings a lonely lonely heart
I'm just all alone now
Lonely lonely heart
All the joy and pain I feel, I'm always
Dreaming it by myself
Love brings a lonely lonely heart
But I know that someday it will come
While I'm being held in your strong arms
Wanting to be together with you...


Anata no sugu chikaku de
Zutto watashi matteru no
Kidzuite wa kurenakute
Nan do mo gakkari shita wa

Right at your side, I'm standing there
I'm always waiting for you
But you don't return my advances
I've been disappointed so many times


Dare ka wo suki ni naru to
Naze konna ni kurushii no
Watashi dake hitori ga
Kaze wo hiita mitai ni

Then I fall in love with someone
Why does it cause me so much pain
All alone, by myself
It's like I've fallen sick


Ima wa Baby Baby love
Douzo onegai
Baby Baby love
Samishisa ni makesou na sono toki wa
Tekagami wo nozokasete
Ima wa Baby Baby love
Naita yoru mo itsu no hi ni ka
Mukashi wo natsukashinde waraiaeru
Watashi-tachi ni naritakute...

And now it's baby baby love
Please, I beg of you
Baby baby love
When I feel I going to lose to this loneliness
I have to look into my hand mirror
And now it's baby baby love
Seems like every day I'm crying through the night
I long for the past, smiling to myself
Wanting to be together with you...


Dare mo shiranai
Secret tears
Nugueru hito wa
Only
Watashi yori
Watashi-tachi ni naritakute...

Nobody knows about these
Secret tears
The one to wipe them away is
Only
Not just myself
Wanting to be together with you...


Koi wa Lonely Lonely heart
Hitoribotchi yo
Lonely Lonely heart
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo itsu datte
Watashi dake no yume no naka
Koi wa Lonely lonely heart
Dakedo kitto itsu no hi ni ka
Anata no tsuyoi ude ni dakarenagara
Watashi-tachi ni naritakute...

Love brings a lonely lonely heart
I'm just all alone now
Lonely lonely heart
All the joy and pain I feel, I'm always
Dreaming it by myself
Love brings a lonely lonely heart
But I know that someday it will come
While I'm being held in your strong arms
Wanting to be together with you...


By the sound of this song, it's Aerith singing of wanting to be with Cloud from the Lifestream. May be related to the hand reach scene , too, but more appropriately when she's praying in the Forgotten City (I think).
:unsure: