"Throw It All Away" is Shadow the Hedgehog's theme from Sonic Adventure 2. It was performed by Everett Bradley. It also acts as the ending credits theme for Dark Story, similar to how "It Doesn't Matter" acted as the ending credits theme for Hero Story.
Legacy
Besides the standard version, an instrumental version also played during the flashback scenes showing Maria. An instrumental remix of this song known as "Lancelot Appears" plays when Sonic encounters Sir Lancelot in Sonic and the Black Knight. Another appearance is the intro of it before the beginning of the Scrap Brain court in Sega Superstars Tennis and any Final Fortress level in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. An instrumental is also played when standing in front of Shadow in White Space in Sonic Generations. A brief sample of the song is featured in "Episode Shadow" of Sonic Forces in the track "Infinite's Beginning".
Lyrics
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Everybody tries to be straight
- But things are still unchanged
- It's useless to resist this
- Their effort will be wasted
- Head straight for your goal by any means
- There is a door that you never have opened
- There is a window with the view you have never seen
- Get there, no matter how long it takes
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- No-one can break you, nobody can tear you
- You live an endless life forever
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- You see the light wherever you go
- You have to face it again and again (and again and again)
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Now wake up, up, up, up...
- Now, wake up, up, up, up...
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- No-one can break you, nobody can tear you
- You live an endless life forever
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- You see the light wherever you go
- You have to face it again and again
- You live an endless life forever
- Forever
- Now wake up, up, up, up...
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- No one can break you, nobody can tear you
- You live an endless life forever
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- You see the light wherever you go
- You have to face it again and again
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- No one can break you, nobody can tear you
- You live an endless life forever
- Oh dark the darkness that dozes in the dusk
- Throw it all away!
- You see the light wherever you go
- You have to face it again and again
Connection to Shadow
- "Head straight for your goal by any means" - Shadow doing whatever it takes to complete his mission.
- "You live an endless life forever" - Shadow being the Ultimate Life Form and is immortal.
- "You see a light wherever you go, you have to face it again and again" - Shadow coming across Sonic almost everywhere he goes, or his flashbacks of his friend Maria Robotnik.
- "Their efforts will be wasted" - Shadow being able to stop anyone who goes against him.
- "But, things are still unchanged" - Maria's death can never be changed, and Shadow is sad about it.
- "There's a window with a view that you have never seen" - Shadow having witnessed earth from the Space Colony ARK, but never seen it's surface before.
- "Now wake up, up, up, up" - Eggman "waking up" and unleashing Shadow into the world.
- "No one can break you, nobody can tear you" - Shadow has nothing to lose and is virtually indestructible.
- "Throw it all away!" - Shadow's plot of activating Gerald's doomsday program to avenge Maria's death, having been led to believe that this is what she wanted. It may also refer to Shadow eventually throwing away his desire for revenge once he realizes the truth of what Maria actually wanted.