[lyrics in commas are taken by Mozart's Requiem]
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Iron horses burn the land
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Iron eagles sky attack
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The dogs of war, now are loose
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To devour through their pass
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Rain of fire, metal storm
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A roar of winds takes away our souls
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Carve my stone, carve my name
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To the hires of flesh
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Among the thorns I lay
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...and I listen the war symphony
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My last ode of ecstasy
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The orchestra plays dark melodies
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as I fall in endless sleep
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When the wicked are confunded,
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Doomed to flames of woe unbounded,
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Call me, with Thy Saints surrounded.
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Low I kneel, with heart submission!
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See, like ashes my contrition!
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Help me in my last condition!
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...and I listen the war symphony
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My last ode of ecstasy
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The orchestra plays dark melodies
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as I sink in bottomeless seas
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"Confutatis maledictis,
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Flammis acribus addictis:
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Voca me cum benedictis.
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Oro supplex et acclinis,
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Cor contritum quasi cinis:
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Gere curam mei finis".
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"We are like certain rickety guitars
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Whenever the wind passes through, it sets
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Astir our verses and their dissonant sounds
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From the slack strings that dangle down
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Like watch chains
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We are like certain incredible antennae
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That with long finger reach into the void
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As on their tips the infinite resounds
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But quickly they shall snap and trumble down"
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[Poetry by Kostas Kariotakis]
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[translation by Kimon Friar]
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War Symphony (Act III)
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| Odes Of Ecstasy |
