"The Gapra Whitewood" is a background theme from Final Fantasy XIII. It is an ambient theme, with female vocals and a relaxed piano and percussion background. While the vocalist Mina and composer Masashi Hamauzu were preparing the demo track for "The Gapra Whitewood" Mina sang in English, as she had done for previous demo tracks recorded for the game, such as "Sulyya Springs" and "Will to Fight," but after receiving the final draft of the lyrics she was so preoccupied with getting the pronunciation and intonation right that she lost track of the flow of the melody. The lyrics were dropped and a fictitious language was employed to regain the feel of the previous songs.