Disclaimer: The song "Blinded by Rainbows" is written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and is performed by the Rolling Stones, so it sure as heck ain't mine. The character Izlude Tingel is a creation of Squaresoft, and I don't own him either.
Blinded by Rainbows a Final Fantasy Tactics music video by Iris Amergin - [Izlude Tingel stands alone in Riovanes Castle, sword in hand and clothes stained with blood. The room is strewn with dead bodies of Riovanes knights. His eyes are filled with horrific realization.]
- Did you ever feel the pain
- That he felt upon the cross
- [Vormav, having already transformed with the Virgo stone, attacks Izlude. Izlude makes an attempt to parry, but fails and falls to the floor.]
- Did you ever feel the knife
- Tearing flesh that's oh so soft
- [Izlude stands in the ruins of a town that has been devastated by the war between the Hokuten and Nanten knights. He turns to the knight standing next to him, but the knight shakes his head and turns away.]
- Did you ever touch the night
- Did you ever count the cost
- [In the aftermath of the battle at Riovanes, Izlude leans against the wall, mortally wounded. Alma begs him to quit talking and save his strength, but Izlude shakes his head and tells Alma that Ramza was right all along]
- Do you hide away the fear
- Put down paradise as lost
- [Izlude sits in a meeting with the higher-ups of the Shrine Knights. Vormav describes the Zodiac Brave Story. Izlude is spellbound, thinking of using the Zodiac stones to stop the war and create a better world.]
- You're blinded by rainbows
- Watching the wind blow
- Blinded by rainbows
- [Izlude tosses and turns in his sleep, haunted by dreams of the war's carnage.]
- Do you dream at night
- Do you sleep at night
- I doubt it
- [Izlude, Wiegraf, and several other knights inspect an area where a battle has already been fought. The ground is littered with the dead. Izlude closes his eyes, picturing the battle. A wizard casts a Fire3 spell on a group of archers.]
- Did you ever feel the blast
- As the Semtex bomb goes off
- [Still in Izlude's imagination, a ninja continues attacking several already incapacitated opponents.]
- Do you ever hear the screams
- As the limbs are all torn off
- [Izlude and the other knights travel through a town near the battlefield. A girl sits holding a letter--the notification of her father's death in battle--and crying. The other knights walk by, hardly noticing. Izlude trails behind, watching the girl.]
- Did you ever kiss the child
- Who just saw his father shot
- [Izlude sits alone by the campfire, the others having retired for the night. He stares into the flames, confused and depressed.]
- Do you ever shed a tear
- As the war drags on and on
- [Orbonne Monastery. Wiegraf calmly wipes blood from his sword. Izlude's sword is also bloodstained, but he is staring at the face of the man he has just killed.]
- Do you ever touch the night
- Or is it just another job
- [As Wiegraf and the other knights approach the stairs leading to the underground book storage, Izlude pauses before the open door to the chapel, staring at the altar within and wondering if stopping the war is worth what he has done]
- Do you fear the final hours
- Put down paradise as lost
- [Izlude fights Ramza in Orbonne Monastery. As he guards against an attack from Ramza, he speaks, asking Ramza why he is trying to stop the church.]
- Blinded by rainbows
- And faces in windows
- [Ramza answers, speaking of the church's deception and evil. Izlude continues fighting and arguing with Ramza, but his eyes show confusionis Ramza right?]
- Blinded by rainbows
- [Again, Izlude tries to sleep, but cannot escape nightmares of the war.]
- Do you dream at night
- Do you sleep at night
- I doubt it
- [Izlude and Wiegraf sit at the campfire. Izlude hesitantly asks Wiegraf if what they're doing will really stop the war. Wiegraf says nothing.]
- Do you ever fear the night
- Could it be the war is lost
- [Izlude, alone in a church, prays, searching for answers.]
- Do you fear the final hour
- Do you kneel before the cross
- [A brief flash of Izlude speaking to Alma, then the scene quickly returns to Izlude and Wiegraf inspecting a battlefield, the bodies almost knee-deep in places]
- You're blinded by rainbows
- Watching the wind blow
- [Another flash of Izlude speaking to Alma, and then the scene changes again to Izlude, waking up in the middle of the night with a scream.]
- Blinded by rainbows
- Do you dream at night
- Do you scream at night
- [Another flash of Izlude and Alma, then Izlude staring at Simon, who lies dying on the ground. He shakes himself and follows Wiegraf.]
- Do you smell of fear
- Is your conscience clear
- [Another flash of Izlude and Alma, then Izlude sitting in bed, shaking, trying to will images of the war from his mind.]
- Are you caked in sweat
- Are your clothes all wet
- [Izlude, speaking to Alma, cuts off, coughing. She worriedly tells him not to speak. He shakes his head and continues, telling her to give the Pisces stone to her brother.]
- Do you see the light
- Is the end in sight
- [Izlude's eyes close and his breathing slows, then stops. Alma buries her head in his shoulder, crying, as the scene slowly fades out.]
- See the face of Christ
- Enter paradise
- I doubt it
