Dead Can Dance:The Song of the Sibyl
| “The Song of the Sibyl” | |
| Artist: | Dead Can Dance |
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| Albums: | Aion (1990) A Passage in Time (1991) Toward the Within (1994) |
Al jorn del judici
Parrá qui haurá fet servici
Un rei vendrá perpetual
Vestit de nostra carn mortal
Del cel vindrá tot certament
Per fer del segle jutjament
Ans que el judici no será
Un gran senyal se mostrará
Lo sol perdrá lo resplendor
La terra tremirá de por
Aprés se badará molt fort
Amostrant-se de greu conhort
Mostrar-se han ab crits i trons
Les infernals confusions
Del cel gran foc davallará
Com a sofre molt pudirá
La terra cremará ab furor
La gent haurá molt gran terror
Aprés será un fort senyal
D'un terratrémol general
Les pedres per mig se rompran
I les muntanyes se fondran
Llavors ningù tindrá talent
D'or, riqueses ni argent
Esperant tots quina será
La senténcia que es dará
De morir seran tots sos talents
Esclafir-los han totes les dents
No hi haurá home que no plor
Tot lo mo'n será en tristor
Los puigs i plans seran iguals
Alli seran los bons i mals
Reis, ducs, comtes i barons
Que de llurs fets retran raons
Aprés vindrá terriblement
Lo fill de de'u omnipotent
De morts i vius judicará
Qui be' haurá fet alli es parrá
Los infants qui nats no seran
Dintre ses mares cridaran
I diran tots plorosament
"Ajuda'ns, de'u omnipotent"
Mare de de'u, pregau per no's
Puix so'u mare de pecadors
Que bona senténcia hajam
I paradis possejam
Vosaltres tots qui escoltau
Devotament a de'u pregau
De cor ab gran devocio'
Que us porte a salvacio
Live Version
Al jorn del judici
Parrà qui avrà fet servici
Jesucrist
Rei universal home
I ver Déyou
Eternal
Del cel vindrà
Per a jutjar
I a cada you
Lo just darà
Al jorn del judici
Parrà qui avrà fet servici
Vosaltres
Tots qui escoltau
Devotament a Déyou
Pregau de cor ab gran devocio
Que us porte a salvacio
Al jorn del judici
Parrà qui avrà fet servici
Translation from Catalan
On the day of judgement
The good will go to heaven for their service
An eternal king will come
Dressed in our mortal flesh
He will come from heaven certainly
To pass judgement on the century
Before judgement is passed
A great sign will show itself
The sun will lose its shine
The earth will tremble with fear
After will come mighty thunder
A sign of great wrath
In an infernal confusion
Lightning and cries will resound
A great fire will come down from heaven
In a stink of sulphur
And the earth will burn furiously
And great terror will afflict people
After will come the terrible signal
Of a great earthquake
As rocks shatter
And mountains collapse
Then no-one will have pieces of gold
Silver or riches
And everyone will await
The sentence
Death will leave them without a penny
And will crush them all
There will remain only men in tears
And sadness will cover the world
The plains and peaks will be all the same
Good and evil will reach them both
Kings, dukes, counts and barons
Will have to account for their actions
And then will come impressively
The Son of God omnipotent
He will judge the dead and the living
The good will go to Heaven
Children not yet born
Will cry from their mother's wombs
And with the crying say
"Help us, God, omnipotent"
Mother of God, pray for us
You, the Mother of sinners
May the sentence be merciful
May Paradise be open to us
You, who listen to everything
Pray God with all devotion
With all your heart and fervour
That we should be saved
