Dead Can Dance The Song of the Sybil Lyrics

Al jorn del judici
Parrб qui haurб fet servici

Un rei vendrб perpetual
Vestit de nostra carn mortal
Del cel vindrб tot certament
Per fer del segle jutjament

Ans que el judici no serб
Un gran senyal se mostrarб
Lo sol perdrб lo resplendor
La terra tremirб de por

Aprйs se badarб molt fort
Amostrant-se de greu conhort
Mostrar-se han ab crits i trons
Les infernals confusions

Del cel gran foc davallarб
Com a sofre molt pudirб
La terra cremarб ab furor
La gent haurб molt gran terror

Aprйs serб un fort senyal
D'un terratrйmol general
Les pedres per mig se rompran
I les muntanyes se fondran

Llavors ningщ tindrб talent
D'or, riqueses ni argent
Esperant tots quina serб
La sentйncia que es darб

De morir seran tots sos talents
Esclafir-los han totes les dents
No hi haurб home que no plor
Tot lo mo'n serб 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

Aprйs vindrб terriblement
Lo fill de de'u omnipotent
De morts i vius judicarб
Qui be' haurб fet alli es parrб

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 sentйncia hajam
I paradis possejam

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

The Song of the Sibyl

( English translation of original Catalan version )

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.

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