Hogg was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland and is best known as the lead … Read Full Bio ↴Hogg was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland and is best known as the lead singer and songwriter with the Christian progressive (or cprog) Celtic/pop/rock band Iona (named after the island Iona). Her father is a Presbyterian minister, her mother a nurse; her family also includes three sisters and two brothers. With medicine strong in the family, it was natural for Hogg to become a doctor. Thus, she studied medicine at Queens University in Belfast. In her third year, Joanne was singing at the Christian Artists talent event and was convinced sing in a school ministry at Youth For Christ in Denmark. After a year, Joanne returned to the University to complete her two remaining years of schooling.
She started working as a junior doctor in the Belfast Hospital, but in 1988 she was invited to form a band with Dave Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge. In 1989, Joanne stopped practicing medicine and Iona was born. Since then, Joanna has sung all over Europe and America. Iona's recordings have become successful worldwide, making them Europe's best selling contemporary Christian band.
Hogg recorded her first solo album, Looking Into Light, in 1999. Her vocals were featured in the role-playing games Xenogears (for the Sony PlayStation) and Xenosaga (for the Sony PlayStation 2). She sang the English versions of Star of Tears and Small Two of Pieces from Xenogears, and Pain and Kokoro from Xenosaga. Star of Tears was featured on the 2-disc Xenogears: Original Soundtrack; however, the song is not normally accessible in the game. Hogg collaborated with several artists for the album New Irish Hymns and provided the female vocals on both solo releases from Troy Donockley.
She started working as a junior doctor in the Belfast Hospital, but in 1988 she was invited to form a band with Dave Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge. In 1989, Joanne stopped practicing medicine and Iona was born. Since then, Joanna has sung all over Europe and America. Iona's recordings have become successful worldwide, making them Europe's best selling contemporary Christian band.
Hogg recorded her first solo album, Looking Into Light, in 1999. Her vocals were featured in the role-playing games Xenogears (for the Sony PlayStation) and Xenosaga (for the Sony PlayStation 2). She sang the English versions of Star of Tears and Small Two of Pieces from Xenogears, and Pain and Kokoro from Xenosaga. Star of Tears was featured on the 2-disc Xenogears: Original Soundtrack; however, the song is not normally accessible in the game. Hogg collaborated with several artists for the album New Irish Hymns and provided the female vocals on both solo releases from Troy Donockley.
SMALL TWO OF PIECES -Orchestral Version-
Joanne Hogg Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Joanne Hogg:
Above The Storm Songbird, fallen from your tree And tossed out on the ocean …
Every Promise From the breaking of the dawn to the setting of…
I Wonder As I Wander I wonder as I wander Out under the sky Why Jesus my…
In That Moment Brave boy walking to the front of the stage Hands wrapped…
Kokoro I've been watching you awhile Since you walked into my life…
Pain First we touch, and we hurt each other Then we tear…
River of Tears There is no sense in it. There's no defence for it. A…
Small Two of Pieces Run through the cold of the night As passion burns in…
SMALL TWO OF PIECES (Xenogears) Run through the cold of the night As passion burns in…
Star of Tears (out take) Your fingertips moving gently to my heart The force of life…
Stars Of Tears Your fingertips moving gently to my heart The force of life…
STARS of TEARS (OUT TAKE) Your fingertips moving gently to my heart The force of life…
The Lord's My Shepherd The Lord′s my Shepherd I'll not want He makes lie in…
The Lords My Shepherd The Lord's my Shepherd I'll not want He makes lie in…
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@estebangamer636yt2
Lyrics:
Your fingertips
Moving gently to my heart
The force of life goes on and on
The song remains
Like a haunting melody
Of angel music held in chains
And I ask you
Can we ease the pain of those who lost
(The force of life goes on)
Can we know the cause of all this sorrow
(Tears of lonliness)
Can we catch the tears of a broken world
Falling down upon the earth...
(Falling down)
The waves of time take me deeper into you
A haze as blue as summer skies
And turn to find
The key will not unlock the door
This broken bird away it flies
And I ask you
Can we ease the pain of those who lost
(The force of life goes on)
Can we know the cause of all this sorrow
(Tears of lonliness)
Can we catch the tears of a broken world
Falling down upon the earth...
(Falling down)
@Nyonics
Have you played the game? Massive, terminal spoilers if you haven't:
Especially on the second disc, as the land-dwelling countries + Shevat rebel against Solaris and the resurrection of Deus, an enormous chunk of the population is destroyed in various ways--first in war with Solaris, then through the culmination of the M Project that turns people into substitute bodies for the Gazel ministry to inhabit so they can merge with Deus, again in combat with the Merkabah, and yet again via the Seraph project Krelian designed to supplement the M Project and then finally as the Deus System destroys chunks of the planet terraforming the planet into an interstellar weapon. This is all after taking into account that many lives were lost fighting in the war between Aveh and Kislev and the way the Ethos racked up corpses (as Wels reapers) and the institution of slavery that Solaris had established. The population was severely reduced, and the rebellion against Solaris cost a lot of people most of their security in life, if not their life itself. So this song is sung as a question of, "how are we going to be able to cope with the grief and heal people's hearts and rebuild a stable civilization? Can it even be done?" This song was almost used as the ending theme, which makes a lot of sense since it's a survey of the aftermath of the game. In the end it was an unused track (although the instrumental melody is also the world map theme) and they chose to use Small Two of Pieces as the ending theme instead, to emphasize the love between the Contact (Abel/Kim/Lacan/Fei) and the Antitype (Elly) over all of their incarnations throughout the generations, since it's the ultimate message of the story.
@hamburgerhelper1828
its crazy that despite the game being literally unfinished, people still love it to death
@user-rk2xi7iw9k
It may be unfinished but it reaches ridiculous heights that makes most of its problem nothing in the big picture.
@vampireprince6730
I think they put all budget in the first half of the game
@vaunjeis6751
@Vampire Prince they lost their budget to FF7 when Square execs knew they had an international hit with big anime swords and boobs.
@Scionofgreyhaven
The first half alone is better than most games to me, Of course if they had time and budget for the 2nd half, it was going to be a complete masterpiece, Hopefully one day, A remake will be made, it doesnt even have to be super HQ graphics or anything
@joshuakennedy7359
They could have ended it with the first part with a sequel planned and I would still rate the first a 10/10
@ivi7thebest4ever
I dream of a remake trailer kicking off with the forest encounter between Fei and Elly and this song coming in... and my eyes get watery at the thought. Just goes to show the power and beauty of music and storytelling.
@budakbaongsiah
Even after more than 20 years this is still one of the best song I've ever heard in my life, from video game or otherwise.
@keithdelgado397
bruh.. I thought I thought alone on this.. Thank you. Best over world theme ever.. i always wished this would play while link was riding epeona all over hyrule looking for navi
@freebretth
Agreed. The lyrics and music try to capture the sheer joy and tragedy of existence.