Stand By Me

'Stand by Me' is one of the greatest songs probably of all time so I was really glad that the game had chosen this song to do. We really wanted to make it our own, bringing it into the world of Florence + The Machine and the world of Final Fantasy XV.

Florence Welch on "Stand by Me"^[1]

Florence_+_the_Machine_-_Stand_by_Me_Announcement_Trailer — Florence + the Machine - Stand by Me Announcement Trailer

Florence and the Machine on "Stand by Me"

"Stand By Me" is the theme song of Final Fantasy XV. It was arranged and performed by the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, and produced and mixed by Emile Haynie. The song was first made famous in 1961 by American soul and R&B singer Ben E. King.

"Stand By Me" features the "Prelude" in its background instrumentation. The song expresses the gratitude Noctis Lucis Caelum feels towards his friends and cannot find the words to express.^[2]

"Stand By Me" was released on the Songs from Final Fantasy XV EP on August 12, 2016. It was also released as a bonus track on the limited edition box of the Final Fantasy XV: Original Soundtrack.

Part of "Stand By Me" plays in the opening when the party is pushing the broken down Regalia to a service station. The full song plays during the ending credits. "Stand By Me" does not play in Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition. Noctis makes a possible reference to the song when he asks the Glaives to stand by him in a scene added to the Royal Edition and Windows Edition of the game.

Lyrics[]

The lyrics were released on the official video on YouTube.^[3]

When the night has come

And the land is dark

And the Moon is the only light we'll see

No, I won't be afraid

Oh, I won't be afraid

Just as long as you stand, stand by me

So, darling, darling stand by me

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand now

Stand by me

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall

Or the mountain should crumble to the sea

I won't cry, I won't cry

No, I won't shed a tear

Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darling, darling stand by me

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand now

Stand by me

[Chorus]

And darling, darling stand by me

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand

Stand by me

Whenever you're in trouble

Won't you stand by me?

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand now

Stand by me

And darling, darling stand by me

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand now

Stand by me

Whenever you're in trouble

Won't you stand by me?

Oh, stand by me

Oh, stand now

Stand by me

References[]

Final Fantasy XV

Content	Artwork (Big Bang) - Allusions (Religious allusions) - Development - Downloadable content - Dummied content - Missable content - Patches - Story - Timeline - Translations
Gameplay	Features	Characters - Locations - Menu (Archives - Datalog)
	Abilities	Armiger - Armiger Unleashed - Cross chain - Elemancy - Glaive Art - Link-strike - Techniques - Warp
	Inventory	Accessories - Auto Parts (Music player) - Fish - Ingredients - Items - Key Items - Leisure Goods - Lures - Shops - Treasures - Weapons (Engine Blade - Royal arms - Genji Blade - Sword of the Father - Trident of the Oracle - Ulric's Kukris - Rakshasa Blade)
	Mechanics	Ascension - Attire (Prince's Fatigues) - Camp (Lodging) - Damage types - Dossiers - Elemancy - Fishing (Fish - Fishing spots - Lures) - Elements - Photos (Archive Highlights) - Recipe - Restaurant - Remodeling - Quests (Hunts - Menace Beneath Lucis - Scraps of Mystery - The Frogs of Legend) - Stats - Statuses - Survival - Timed Quest - Tours - Warp
	Transportation	Airship - Chocobo - Regalia (Type-D - Type-F) - Royal vessel - Snowmobile
	Enemies	Bestiary - Enemies
	Summons	Titan - Ramuh - Leviathan - Shiva - Bahamut - Garuda
	Other	Achievements and trophies - Multiple endings
	Minigames	Fishing - Justice Monsters Five - Chocobo racing - Totomostro
Downloadable Scenarios	Mystery Disc - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Prompto - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Final Fantasy XV: Comrades - Final Fantasy XV: Assassin's Festival – Moogle Chocobo Carnival — Close Encounter of the Terra Kind — Adventurer from Another World
Media	Demos	Episode Duscae - Platinum - Trial of Titan
	Trailers	E3 2013 - Omen
	Related media	Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition - A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV - Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn – Prologue - Final Fantasy Versus XIII - Justice Monsters Five - Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV - King's Knight -Wrath of the Dark Dragon- - Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV - Final Fantasy XV Prologue Parting Ways - Final Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- - Final Fantasy XV Official Comic Anthology - Final Fantasy XV: Episode Carbuncle - Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV
	Music albums	Final Fantasy XV: Original Soundtrack - Final Fantasy XV Original Soundtrack Mishūroku Trailer Gakkyokushū - Final Fantasy XV Original Soundtrack Volume 2 - Songs from Final Fantasy XV - Final Fantasy XV: Ultimate Collector's Edition Special Soundtrack - Piano Collections: Final Fantasy XV - Final Fantasy XV Live at Abbey Road Studios
	Music themes	"Somnus" - "Stand Your Ground" - "Veiled in Black" - "Valse di Fantastica" - "The Fight Is On!" - "APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS" - "OMNIS LACRIMA" - "NOCTIS" - "Starlit Waltz" - "LUNA" - "Hellfire" - "Magna Insomnia" - "Main Theme from FINAL FANTASY" - "Stand By Me" - "Too Much Is Never Enough" - "I Will Be" - "Choosing Hope" - "Conditioned to Hate" - "Prayer of the Oracle"
	Guide books	Final Fantasy XV Ultimania Scenario Side - Final Fantasy XV Ultimania Battle+Map Side - Final Fantasy XV World Prologue (Dengeki) - Final Fantasy XV First Master Guide (V Jump) - The Art of Final Fantasy XV (Ultimate Collector's Edition) - The Art & Design of Final Fantasy XV (Cook & Becker)
Topics	Censorship - Fashion industry collaboration - Product placement

Musical themes

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival - Theatrhythm Final Bar Line

Recurring themes	Airship theme - "Battle at the Big Bridge" - List of battle themes (Battle theme · Boss theme · Final boss theme) - "Chocobo Theme" - Dungeon theme - Ending theme - "Final Fantasy" - "Good Night" - Main theme - "Moogle Theme" - "Prelude" - Town theme - Victory Fanfare

Game specific themes

Final Fantasy	"Main Theme" - "Battle" - "Chaos Shrine" - "Matoya's Cave" - "Mt. Gulg"
Final Fantasy II	"Battle Theme 1" - "The Rebel Army" - "Main Theme" - "Battle Theme 2" - "Tower of the Magi" - "Finale"
Final Fantasy III	"The Altar Cave" - "Battle 1" - "Eternal Wind" - "Tozus" - "Battle 2" - "The Boundless Ocean" - "Priestess Aria" - "Doga and Unei" - "The Crystal Tower" - "The Dark Crystals" - "Last Battle"
Final Fantasy IV	"The Red Wings" - "Theme of Love" - "Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY IV" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Rydia" - "Edward's Harp" - "Mystic Mysidia" - "Battle With the Four Fiends" - "Troian Beauty" - "Dancing Calbrena" - "The Final Battle"
Final Fantasy V	"Main Theme of Final Fantasy V" - "Lenna's Theme" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Mambo de Chocobo" - "Sorrows of Parting" - "Home, Sweet Home" - "Music Box" - "The Evil Lord X-Death" - "Legend of the Deep Forest" - "A New World" - "The Final Battle" - "Dear Friends" - "Ending Theme"
Final Fantasy VI	"Battle" - "The Decisive Battle" - "Terra's Theme" - "Celes's Theme" - "Kefka" - "The Phantom Forest" - "Kids Run Through the City" - "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" - "Relm's Theme" - "Battle to the Death" - "Searching for Friends" - "Dancing Mad"
Final Fantasy VII series	Final Fantasy VII	"Opening - Bombing Mission" - "Anxiety" - "Tifa's Theme" - "Let the Battles Begin!" - "Turks' Theme" - "Fight On!" - "Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII" - "Farm Boy" - "JENOVA" - "Cosmo Canyon" - "Descendant of Shinobi" - "Aerith's Theme" - "Birth of a God" - "One-Winged Angel"
	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	"The Promised Land" - "Divinity I" - "Divinity II" - "CALLING" - "Safe and Sound"
	Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-	"Redemption" - "Longing"
	Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-	"Theme of Elfe"
	Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-	"CRISIS CORE Theme" - "The Price of Freedom" - "Why"
	Final Fantasy VII Remake	"RUN RUN RUN" - "Stand Up" - "Scarlet's Theme" - "Hollow" - "Stamp" - "The Midgar Blues" - "The Happy Turtle Fight Song" - "The Happy Turtle Jingle" - "Why Can't I Be a Turtle?" - "Turtle Doo-wop" - "Give In to the Riptide" - "You, Me (Sun, Surf, and Beach)" - "Technologic Terrapin"
	Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier	"The Soldiers From The Start"
	Final Fantasy VII Rebirth	"Rufus's Welcoming Ceremony" - "Ballad of the Bald - Shine Bright, My Sun" - "Bare Your Soul" - "The Gus Funk" - "Straight Outta Corneoland" - "No Promises to Keep" - "Me and My Chocobo" - "Crazy Chocobo - Rebirth" - "Crazy Motorcycle - The Night Chase" - "New Merc in Town" - "Midgar Blues del Amor" - "Gotta Walk On" - "Golden Sparks" - "Shape of My Love" - "Stamp"
Final Fantasy VIII	"Liberi Fatali" - "Balamb GARDEN" - "Blue Fields" - "Don't Be Afraid" - "Force Your Way" - "The Man with the Machine Gun" - "Premonition" - "Fisherman's Horizon" - "The Oath" - "Eyes On Me" - "Ride On" - "The Castle" - "The Legendary Beast" - "Maybe I'm a Lion" - "The Extreme"
Final Fantasy IX	"A Place to Call Home" - "Vamo'alla flamenco" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Festival of the Hunt" - "Kuja's Theme" - "Roses of May" - "Unrequited Love" - "Not Alone" - "The Final Battle" - "Melodies Of Life"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X	"Zanarkand" - "Tidus's Theme" - "Otherworld" - "Battle Theme" - "Hymn of the Fayth" - "Thunder Plains" - "Assault" - "Via Purifico" - "SUTEKI DA NE (Isn't It Wonderful?)" - "Fight With Seymour" - "A Contest Of Aeons" - "Final Battle"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X-2	"KUON: Memories of Waves and Light" - "real Emotion" - "Yuna's Ballad" - "1000 Words" - "Their Resting Place"
Final Fantasy XI	"Memoro de la Ŝtono" - "Vana'diel March" - "Ronfaure" - "Battle Theme" - "Gustaberg" - "Rolanberry Fields" - "Voyager" - "Selbina" - "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno" - "Battle in the Dungeon #2" - "Mog House" - "Awakening" - "The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" - "Fighters of the Crystal" - "Faded Memories - Promyvion" - "Distant Worlds" - "Griffons Never Die" - "Wings of the Goddess" - "Ragnarok" - "Forever Today" - "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel"
Final Fantasy XII	"Opening Movie (FFXII Theme)" - "Boss Battle" - "Streets of Rabanastre" - "The Dalmasca Estersand" - "Giza Plains" - "Flash of Steel" - "The Archadian Empire" - "Battle with an Esper" - "Life and Death" - "Eruyt Village" - "To Walk Amongst Gods" - "Struggle for Freedom" - "Kiss Me Good-Bye"
Lightning Saga	Final Fantasy XIII	"FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Promise" - "Saber's Edge" - "Ragnarok" - "Eternal Love" - "Blinded By Light" - "March of the Dreadnoughts" - "The Gapra Whitewood" - "Fighting Fate" - "Will to Fight" - "Fang's Theme" - "Sulyya Springs" - "Dust to Dust" - "Born Anew" - "Nascent Requiem" - "Kimi ga Irukara" - "My Hands"
	Final Fantasy XIII-2	"FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - Wishes -" - "Etro's Champion" - "Paradox" - "Noel's Theme" - "New Bodhum" - "Historia Crux" - "Worlds Collide" - "Unseen Intruder" - "The Last Hunter" - "Eclipse" - "Village and Void" - "Caius's Theme" - "Limit Break!" - "Starting Over" - "Plains of Eternity" - "Yeul's Theme" - "New World"
	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	"Crimson Blitz" - "The Savior's Words" - "Noel's Theme - The Shadow Hunter -" - "Noel and Yeul - The Promise -" - "Desert Lullaby" - "Fang's Theme - The Boss -" - "Savior of Souls" - "Divine Love" - "Almighty Bhunivelze"
Final Fantasy XIV	Before Meteor	"Twilight over Thanalan" - "Siren Song" - "Primal Judgment" - "Nemesis" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Imperial Will" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
	A Realm Reborn	"Torn from the Heavens" - "A New Hope" - "To the Sun" - "The Land Breathes" - "Serenity" - "Under the Weight" - "Thunderer" - "Penitus" - "Bite of the Black Wolf" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Ultima" - "Dawn of a New Era" - "Calamity Unbound" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Pa-Paya" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Oblivion"
	Heavensward	"Heavensward" - "Solid" - "Melt" - "Ominous Prognisticks" - "Painted Foothills" - "Unbending Steel" - "Unbreakable" - "Imagination" - "Heroes" - "Dragonsong" - "Locus" - "Metal" - "Fiend" - "Revenge Twofold" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Moebius" - "Rise" - "Equilibrium"
	Stormblood	"Storm of Blood" - "The Measure of Our Reach" - "Triumph" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "The Worm's Tail" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "Revolutions" - "Amatsu Kaze" - "Wayward Daughter" - "eScape" - "From the Heavens" - "Sunrise" - "Starlight, Starbright"
	Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "Insatiable" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Civilizations" - "'Neath Dark Waters" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "A Long Fall" - "Alien Manifestation (From NieR:Automata)" - "Song of the Ancients - Atonement (From NieR:Automata)" - "Bipolar Nightmare (From NieR:Automata)" - "Weight of the World - Prelude Version" - "Return to Oblivion" - "Gangos" - "To the Edge" - "Promises to Keep" - "Kainé - Final Fantasy Main Theme Version" - "Weight of the World - Instrumental Version (From NieR:Automata)" - "City Ruins - Rays of Light (From NieR:Automata)" - "In the Arms of War" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
	Endwalker	"Endwalker" - "Finality" - "Endcaller" - "Close in the Distance" - "The Final Day" - "Flow" - "Hic Svnt Leones" - "In the Balance" - "Scream" - "White Stone Black" - "Dedicated to Moonlight" - "Athena, the Tireless One"
	Final Fantasy XIV battle themes
Final Fantasy XV Universe	Final Fantasy XV	"Somnus" - "Stand Your Ground" - "Veiled in Black" - "Valse di Fantastica" - "The Fight Is On!" - "APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS" - "OMNIS LACRIMA" - "NOCTIS" - "Starlit Waltz" - "LUNA" - "Hellfire" - "Magna Insomnia" - "Stand By Me" - "Too Much Is Never Enough" - "I Will Be" - "Choosing Hope" - "Conditioned to Hate" - "Prayer of the Oracle"
Final Fantasy XV Universe	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	"Calling for Rain"
Final Fantasy XVI	"Land of Eikons" - "Sixteen Bells" - "On the Wind Borne – The Rosarian Ducal Anthem" - "Away" - Control" - "Find the Flame" - "To Sail Forbidden Seas" - "Do or Die" - "Heart of Stone" - "Ascension" - "The Riddle" - "Bow" - "Hymn of the Penitent" - "My Star" - "Tsuki Wo Miteita - Moongazing" - "Eikonoklasm" - "Cascade"
Final Fantasy Tactics	"Trisection" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Ultima's Transformation" - "Ultima's Perfection"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	"Main Theme" - "Teach Me, Montblanc" - "Shiroi Hana"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift	"Summer Vacation"
Vagrant Story	"A Man Consumed"
Type series	Final Fantasy Type-0	"The Beginning of the End" - "Tempus Finis" - "Vermilion Fire" - "Colorful - Falling in Love" - "Zero" - "Utakata"
Type series	Final Fantasy Agito	"FINAL FANTASY AGITO: The Beginning of the End" - "FINAL FANTASY AGITO" - "Forbidden Fruit" - "My Diamond"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	"Sound of the Wind" - "Moonless Starry Night"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers	"Kuule tää unelmain"
Dissidia series	Dissidia Final Fantasy	"DISSIDIA" - "The Messenger" - "Cosmos" - "Chaos"
Dissidia series	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	"Cantata Mortis & God in Fire"
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call	"THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL Special Arrangement Medley"
Chocobo series	Chocobo Racing	"Diamonds in My Heart"
	Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon	"Door Crawl"
	Chocobo GP	"Choco-race" - "Breakneck Cactuar!" - "Change"
Final Fantasy Dimensions II	"Timeless Tomorrow"
Mobius Final Fantasy	"Always There" - "Capricious Cait Sith" - "Mobius Love"
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius	"DUEL!!" - "Touch It - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Remix" - "Immortal Flame"
World of Final Fantasy	"Innocent²" - "World of Nine Wood Hills" - "Silent World" - "World Parade"
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin	"Jack's Theme" - "Shadows Rising"

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