Here’s another over analysis from me. If you guys want, I’ll do the same for “Anna Issho Datta no Ni”, “Distance” and “River”. Just let me know!
I’m going to start with a potentially spicy take: I’m of the opinion that “Find the Way” by Mika Nakashima is the quintessential Flay x Kira song in the entire soundtrack.
Before we go on, BIG FAT DISCLAIMER:
This entire analysis is, at the end of the day, my opinion. Just because I call it an “analysis”, it doesn’t mean it is immune to my own biases. I also want to make it clear that while I do ship Kira with Flay, I also ship him with Lacus. Cause, why not both? I am fully aware of how unhealthy Kira and Flay were with each other. Yet, I ship it because I still their relationship fascinating twenty years later.
Without further ado, let us proceed:
“Why do you try to carry all these wounds on your back?
It isn't for any one person's sake, please don't lose sight of that
Why am I, while hesitating,
What I hope for is the sun, the sun to light the way...
Though in this glowing cosmos our hands can't quite reach
We depend only on our resounding love
Because at the end of the path we've traveled we'll find the light
But what I saw wasn't one bit clouded..."
I said, "It's okay to cry,
Because I’ll stay by your side no matter what”
What I wish for is a hand, a hand to reach up to me...
Even without words, even without wings to fly on
As long as we stand our ground in the wind
Even if we're the first ones afflicted with this pain...
Though in this glowing cosmos our hands can't quite reach
We depend on only our resounding love
Because at the end of the path we've traveled we'll find the light
Even without words, even without wings to fly on
As long as we stand our ground in the wind
At the end of the path we've traveled we finally saw the light...
source: https://www.animesonglyrics.com/gundam-seed/find-the-way
First thing’s first, since “boku wa” appears in the Japanese version of the lyrics, it can be safely assumed that the song is meant to be from Kira’s point of view.
“Why do you try to carry all these wounds on your back?
It isn't for any one person's sake, please don't lose sight of that”
If you recall, Kira and Flay are easily the most traumatized pair on the archangel who didn’t really have an outlet for it aside from each other. The entirety of their unhealthy relationship was essentially a trauma bond.
Flay was especially consumed by her bereavement, which isn’t too unlike how homicidally bereaved people may react. She had a lot of anger towards the series of circumstances which led to her father’s untimely death.
“Why am I, while hesitating,
As we all know, Kira felt guilty for failing Flay not once, not twice but three times. He’s trapped in this sense of guilt that persists well into Destiny.
“What I hope for is the sun, the sun to light the way...”
This seems self explanatory to me: Seeking an end to the war.
“Though in this glowing cosmos our hands can't quite reach
We depend on only our resounding love
Because at the end of the path we've traveled we'll find the light
From episode 35 onwards, Kira and Flay are permanently separated. It stings because they wanted to have a talk after his fight with Athrun… a conversation that will never be realized.
Both he and Flay desperately wanted to be reunited, so that they both could apologize to each other. She especially had quite a bit to atone for, and it was her hope of speaking with him once more that kept her going.
While Kira may have romantically moved on from Flay, he still harbored love for her. On the contrary, she had accepted that she had feelings for him and wanted to do right by him.
Anyways onto the next stanza because I love it so much:
“It was a very sad dream,
But what I saw wasn't one bit clouded..."
I said, "It's okay to cry,
Because I'll stay by your side no matter what."
What I wish for is a hand, a hand to reach up to me...”
I feel that this is what Kira wanted to tell Flay at some point; that she had a right to feel everything as intensely as she did. Or, at least something along those lines.
As for the “hand” part; I see it as a want for someone who truly understood his pain.
Granted; this stanza could easily apply to Kira x Lacus at the same time (for Lacus was incredibly empathetic and understood that he still had feelings for Flay by this point in the series).
“Even without words, even without wings to fly on
As long as we stand our ground in the wind
Even if we're the first ones afflicted with this pain..”
Both of them held on to hope until the very end; hope that they'd be able to have that conversation that would never come to fruition. Hope that she'd be able to apologize to him, which kept her going (even as she cried). He kept going in hopes of being able to save her.
The lyrics kind of just repeat themselves. I've analyzed enough of this song.
To me, anytime I hear the song, my thoughts will always drift towards this tragic ship. 💔
Anyways, I found this picture kind of cute out of context:
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