Nod-Krai Live Performance

[00:00.93] A luna, cara cantica (My moon, my beloved song)

[00:06.76] ne me in atra dedas (Abandon me not in this dark night)

[00:12.87] Aves, ex urbe aurea (My little doves, bring from that golden city)

[00:19.52] ferte indicia mea (The song of my homeland)

[00:27.22] Aves, ferte cantam cara (My little doves, bring me a beloved song)

[00:33.60] ut lugeam et fata mala (So that we may mourn her wicked fate)

[00:40.24] Num in immundorum terra (Please tell me, in that land tainted by evil)

[00:46.34] Clavus ille adhuc claudit pia (Are my brothers and sisters still weeping for their destiny?)

[00:58.03] Quando tandem carebimus tanta miseria (When shall the misery pass us by, and when shall we know joy again?)

[01:02.81] Quom patria vastata nunc iacet sub urticis (Why does our devastated homeland now lie buried under nettles?)

[01:07.07] Ubi es, benigna domina (O Moon, benevolent mistress, where are you?)

[01:09.45] cur non mittis lucem almam tuam (Why do you not cast your gentle radiance upon the world?)

[01:11.87] Ecce, terra infelix atra (Look at this lightless, pitiable land)

[01:13.98] Veritas contra falsa nequit (Truth is powerless against the venom of shadowy lies)

[01:16.38] Luna domina, quo adduces (O Moon, o mistress, where are you leading us?)

[01:18.77] Pergemus quocumque adduces (We will follow your light wherever you go)

[01:21.15] Potius nox tegat lumina (We would rather let the frigid night of death blind our eyes)

[01:23.29] Quam in falsa luce esse (Than to sing in disgrace for a false radiance )

[02:21.71] Carmen triste nos non canimus (We shall not sing songs of lament )

[02:24.11] Etsi flentes pro nostrorum malo (Even though our hearts be stung with sorrow)

[02:26.24] Sed non lacrima tollit dura (But what tears can wash away calamity)

[02:28.62] Patria somno non potest reddi (And what mournful dreams can bring back our homeland?)

[02:31.02] Illa vincta fuit pressa ( That golden city was devoured by flames )

[02:33.15] Tecta aurea voravit flamma (She was once bound and humiliated)

[02:35.81] Sed renascetur rursum But (she will one day rise from the ashes)

[02:37.93] redibit nos larem ducet spe (And with hope, lead her people back home)

[02:51.22] (Cur) aerumnosae? (Why do you mourn?)

[02:57.06] (Cui) aerumnosae? (For whom do you mourn?)

[03:01.04] Cur lacrimosae? (Why do you weep?)

[03:04.23] Cui lacrimosae? For whom do you weep?

[03:07.42] Luna, claras terras lustra (O new moon, illuminate this land once more)

[03:12.20] Sicut aves per umbras vola (Like white doves soaring through the night)

[03:16.99] Et unda vasta foeda purga (Like an azure sea that washes away all evil)

[03:21.50] Pro turba fida spem crastinam serva (For those who believe in you and hope for tomorrow)

[03:28.68] A luna nova, surgat luna pura casta (We beseech you, rise, new moon, o new moon, pure and unblemished)

[03:37.97] Fugio aerumnam, tecum nulla fleta (With you, I cast off suffering, and for all living things, wipe away their tears)

[03:50.72] Harmonizing

[04:06.39] Sub luna rursus fiet clara terra (May the moonlit world know light once more)