SILENT HILL 3 ENDING & THEME SONG ANALYSIS

A review of the ending along with a look at the significance entrusted to the theme and insert songs.

E n d i n g    A n a l y s i s
After God was dead, what was it that she saw?
[summary]
After Heather has defeated the monster, all of her stress and tension seems to loosen at once and she breaks down crying while calling out for her father. However, immediately afterwards she senses that someone is there and looks back over her shoulder. After this, Heather returns to where she left Douglas and cheerfully discusses how her assumed name is no longer necessary.
Heather kicks the monster in the head and puts the church behind her. Valtiel is already nowhere to be seen.
 
opening theme
[You're Not Here]

The opening theme is sung about the feelings involved with the loss of an important person. These feelings of loss become an important factor in what drives the heroine in the latter half of the game.

Blue sky to forever,
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along,

So now what should I do, I'm strung out, addicted to you,
My body it aches, now that you're gone,
My supply fell through,

You gladly gave me everything you had and more,
You craved my happiness,
When you make me feel joy it makes you smile,
But now I feel your stress,
Love was never meant to be such a crazy affair, no
And who has time for tears,
Never thought I'd sit around and cry for your love,
'till now.
 
 
insert song
[Letter – from past days]

This insert song is the background music for the scene in the car driving to Silent Hill. In a voice expressing pain, it is sung about hope for the future.

A letter to my future self,
Am I still happy, I began,
Have I grown up pretty,
Is Daddy still a good man,
Am I still friends with Colleen,
I'm sure that I'm still laughing,
aren't I, aren't I,

Hey there to my future self,
If you forget how to smile,
I have this to tell you,
Remember it once in awhile,
Ten year ago your past self,
Prayed for your happiness,
Please don't, lose hope,

Oh, oh what a pair me and you,
Put here to feel joy, not be blue,
Sad times, bad times, see them through,
Soon we will know, if it's for real what we both feel,

Though I can't know for sure how things worked out for us,
No matter how hard it gets, you have to realize:
We weren't put on this earth to suffer and cry,
We were made for being happy ---
So...be happy...for me. For you... Please.

Oh, oh what a pair me and you,
Put here to feel joy, not be blue,
Sadder times and bad times, see them through,
Soon we will know, if it's for real what we both feel,

We were put here on this earth,
put here to feel joy, (repeat)
 
 
insert song
[I WANT LOVE]

This is the insert song for the scene in which Heather and Douglas meet again. The two of them are in the mutual situation of having lost a family member, which overlaps with the world of the lyrics. The song emphasizes sorrowfulness.

I want a cup that overflows with love
Although it's not enough to fill my heart
I want a barrel full of love
Although I know it's not enough to fill my heart
I want a river full of love
But then I know the holes will still remain
I need an ocean full of love
I know the holes will still remain

And this Swiss cheese heart knows
Only kindness can fill its holes
I'd love to dry my tears
As pain disappears

I need a miracle and not someone's charity
One drop of love from him,
My heart's in ecstasy
The high that is sending me
Is most likely ending me
I need a miracle and not someone's charity,
---------------inst---------------
Fill up my heart with love
Oh you'd be amazed at how little I need from him
To feel complete here and now stirring within me,
Are these feelings I can't ignore,
I need a miracle and that's what I'm hoping for
I need a miracle and not someone's charity
One drop of love from him,
My heart's in ecstasy
The high that is sending me
Is most likely ending me
I need a miracle and not someone's charity,

Anybody's love but his will never fill this place within me,
Now doctor give me what I need to free my heart from misery.
 
 
ending theme
Hometown

The memorable lyrics of the ending theme seem to be about the story of Silent Hill being told in a town somewhere far away.

He spoke of tortured souls,
So outrageous the toll

You can lose all you have
He refused to give in,
To the town that takes all.
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want,
All the time then he shouts at the moon.
"She's gone!" and fear has overcome.
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone...

Four and twenty dead birds, they bleed upon the nest
There was no time for reasons they had no sign of a threat.
Now it's too late for me, this town will eventually take me
Now it's too late for me, this town will win.

Through this fog they came along
Dark creatures singing a terrible song
The rest of the bar laughed at him
Only I felt my hope grow dim
They found him dead the very next day
No more stories from him, I heard them say
We blame bad luck, for his fate.
Only I felt terror so great.

That misty night, that dismal moon
The dead search for their kin
While angels sing, in endless dark
The dead seek out sin.

Footnote:
The lyrics in Silent Hill 3 were made to fit the songs from the original Japanese verses and produced with the English translation. The Japanese is written strictly in poetic verse, and the English translation isn't exact in quite a few sections because it was fitted to the music and converted to English.

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