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.
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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, |
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, |
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 |
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, |
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.