War Symphony (act Iii) Lyrics

War Symphony (act Iii) lyrics

(lyrics in commas are taken by Mozart's Requiem)

Iron horses burn the
land
Iron eagles sky attack
The dogs of war, now are loose
To
devour through their pass

Rain of fire, metal storm
A roar of
winds takes away our souls
Carve my stone, carve my name
To the hires
of flesh
Among the thorns I lay

...and I listen the war
symphony
My last ode of ecstasy
The orchestra plays dark melodies
as I fall in endless sleep

When the wicked are confunded,
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded,
Call me, with Thy Saints
surrounded.

Low I kneel, with heart submission!
See, like ashes
my contrition!
Help me in my last condition!

...and I listen the
war symphony
My last ode of ecstasy
The orchestra plays dark
melodies
as I sink in bottomeless seas

"Confutatis
maledictis,
Flammis acribus addictis:
Voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis:
Gere
curam mei finis".

"We are like certain rickety guitars
Whenever
the wind passes through, it sets
Astir our verses and their dissonant
sounds
From the slack strings that dangle down
Like watch chains

We are like certain incredible antennae
That with long finger
reach into the void
As on their tips the infinite resounds
But
quickly they shall snap and trumble down"

(Poetry by Kostas
Kariotakis
translation by Kimon Friar)