War Symphony (act Iii) Lyrics - Singles - Odes Of Ecstasy

(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)