Song Of The Sibyl lyrics

Artist	Dead Can Dance
Album(s)	Toward The Within

Lyrics

The song of the sybil (orginal catalan version)
Al jorn del judici
Parrà qui haurà fet servici

Un rei vendrà perpetual
Vestit de nostra carn mortal;
Del cel vindrà tot certament
Per fer del segle jutjament

Ans que el judici no serà
Un gran senyal se mostrarà:
Lo sol perdrà lo resplendor
La terra tremirà de por

Après se badarà molt fort
Amostrant-se de greu conhort;
Mostrar-se han ab crits I trons
Les infernals confusions

Del cel gran foc davallarà
Com a sofre molt pudirà;
La terra cremarà ab furor
La gent haurà molt gran terror

Après serà un fort senyal
D'un terratrèmol general;
Les pedres per mig se rompran
I les muntanyes se fondran

Llavors ningu tindrà talent
D'or, riqueses ni argent
Esperant tots quina serà
La sente'ncia que es darà

De morir seran tots sos talents
Esclafir-los han totes les dents;
No hi haurà home que no plor
Tot lo mon serà 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

Après vindrà terriblement
Lo fill de déu omnipotent;
De morts I vius judicarà:
Qui bé haurà fet alli es parrà

Los infants qui nats no seran
Dintre ses mares cridaran
I diran tots plorosament:
"Ajuda'ns, de'u omnipotent"

Mare de déu, pregau per nos
Puix sou mare de pecadors
Que bona sente'ncia hajam
I paradis possejam

Vosaltres tots qui escoltau
Devotament a déu pregau
De cor ab gran devocio
Que us porte a salvacio

The song of the sybil ( english translation of original catalan version )
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

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