I would like to ask with help recognizing lyrics in this song so I can identify what is the source:
https://metrom.bandcamp.com/track/apokalyps
https://metrom.bandcamp.com/track/apokalyps
Help needed with lyrics
- Thread starter ach
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Atra dies means "black" or "dismal day".
I can't make out a single word of the singing, nor even tell what language it's in.
I think I hear 'apostoli' in there somewhere. The first word sounds like 'lectio', but I'm not sure.
It's definitely an opening "le-" sound, but the consonant after that is some sort of dental fricative. Or it could be "x", as in "lexi".
I have the file slowed down in Audacity but it is still inaudible.
Nevermind, you're right. This is what I've got:
Lectio libri apokalypsis
beati Iohanni apostoli:
Et vidi caelum novum et terram novam.
Primum enim caelum, et prima terra abiit,
et mare iam non est.
Et [inaudible; sibi? vidi?] sanctam civitatem Jerusalem novam
vidi descendentem de caelo a Deo,
paratam sicut sponsam ornatam viro suo.
Et audivi vocem magnam de throno dicentem:
Ecce tabernaculum Dei cum hominibus,
et habitabit cum eis.
Et ipsi populus eius erunt,
et ipse Deus cum eis erit eorum Deus:
et absterget Deus omnem lacrimam ab oculis eorum,
et mors ultra non erit, neque luctus, neque clamor, neque dolor erit ultra,
quia prima abierunt.
Et dixit qui sedebat in throno:
Ecce nova facio omnia.
Et dixit mihi:
Scribe
quia haec verba fidelissima sunt, et vera.
Most of this is from Revelation 21, but the introduction is not and the word order is a bit screwed up.
Lectio libri apokalypsis
beati Iohanni apostoli:
Et vidi caelum novum et terram novam.
Primum enim caelum, et prima terra abiit,
et mare iam non est.
Et [inaudible; sibi? vidi?] sanctam civitatem Jerusalem novam
vidi descendentem de caelo a Deo,
paratam sicut sponsam ornatam viro suo.
Et audivi vocem magnam de throno dicentem:
Ecce tabernaculum Dei cum hominibus,
et habitabit cum eis.
Et ipsi populus eius erunt,
et ipse Deus cum eis erit eorum Deus:
et absterget Deus omnem lacrimam ab oculis eorum,
et mors ultra non erit, neque luctus, neque clamor, neque dolor erit ultra,
quia prima abierunt.
Et dixit qui sedebat in throno:
Ecce nova facio omnia.
Et dixit mihi:
Scribe
quia haec verba fidelissima sunt, et vera.
Most of this is from Revelation 21, but the introduction is not and the word order is a bit screwed up.
That's because it's ecclesiastical pronunciation, which treats ti before another vowel as tsi, making it sound like 'lektsio'.
It must be vidi, because sibi would hardly make sense, and with vidi it corresponds to Rev. 21:2.
Were you really able to make all that out only by listening to the song? That's frigging impressive. Most of it just sounded like inaudible muttering to me. Are you very accustomed to listening to this kind of music, maybe?
The first part literally just means "A reading from the book of Revelation of blessed John the Apostle" (it's Johannis, btw). The rest is a very straightforward reading of the verse in the Vulgate.
The word order seems fine to me: civitatem is sung before sanctam, not after.
It's not vidi, which wouldn't be repeated after novam. It's actually just civitatem.
Well, it could have been. It happens for words to be repeated (like "I saw the holy city, I saw it coming down from heaven"). I haven't listened to it again, though, so I'll take your word it's just civitatem.
Ah. Okay. That was a difference I didn't know.
Oh. I had swapped them somehow. I researched it afterward. And yeah, I had mistyped, I meant Iohannis.
I slowed it down and listened to it repeatedly.