One-Winged Angel

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It is the only music from  the game with voices, and the song is sung in Latin and/or Japanese. Here are the lyrics, translation, and what I believe the meanings are. The actual words are written in <I>italics</I> and the translation is in regular text. Meanings are in <B>bold</B>. Little comments I have to make are in brackets ( ). I'll see if I could put the MP3 of the orchestrated version of this beauty up...once you've gone orchestrated, you'll <I>never</I> go back. Believe me. It's astounding...time is fleeting. Madness...takes it's toll...oh, wait, that's the Time Warp. Whoopsie....heh. Well, the Time Warp is good, but not quite on par with One-Winged Angel. You agree?</div> <bR> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <bR> <div> Burning inside with</div> <div> Violent anger.</div> <div> Burning inside with</div> <div> Violent anger.</div> <bR> <div> <B>What does this mean? Is it Sephiroth's anger at the world, or the fate that is crushing him (he's a bad guy, and thus doomed to failure), at Shin-Ra or not letting him have a normal life? Is it Cloud's anger at Sephiroth?</B></div> <bR> <div> (This part is a bit odd, I'm not sure whether they're saying 'Sephiros!' or 'Sephiroth!'...Take your pick, although I say 'Sephiroth!' because I like it too much.)</div> <bR> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <bR> <div> Sephiroth!</div> <div> Sephiroth!</div> <bR> <div> <B>This is probably angelic voices glorifying Sephiroth's name. Yay angelic voices!</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sors immanis -</I></div> <div> <I>Et inanis.</I></div> <div> <I>Sors immanis - </I></div> <div> <I>Et inanis.</I></div> <bR> <div> Fate - monstrous</div> <div> And empty.</div> <div> Fate - monstrous</div> <div> And empty.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sephiroth's fate if he succeeds; will he rule over a dead Planet?</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <div> <I>Estuans interius</I></div> <div> <I>Ira vehementi.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Veni, veni, venias.</I></div> <div> <I>Ne me mori facias.</I></div> <div> <I>Veni, veni, venias.</I></div> <div> <I>Ne me mori facias.</I></div> <div> <I>Veni, veni, venias.</I></div> <div> <I>Ne me mori facias.</I></div> <div> <I>Veni, veni, venias.</I></div> <div> <I>Ne me mori facias.</I></div> <bR> <div> Come, come, O come,</div> <div> Do not let me die.</div> <div> Come, come, O come,</div> <div> Do not let me die.</div> <div> Come, come, O come,</div> <div> Do not let me die.</div> <div> Come, come, O come,</div> <div> Do not let me die.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Is this Sephiroth's cry to Cloud or Jenova to prevent his death? Is Cloud crying for mercy from Sephiroth? Is it the human race crying for Sephiroth to spare them, or Aeris doing the same?</B></div> <bR> <div> (The next part is sung over four more 'veni, veni...' and there are two ideas to what it says. The one I subscribe to is in Japanese, the other is in Latin.)</div> <bR> <div> (Japanese)</div> <div> <I>Karyuu no hane kata.</I></div> <div> <I>Karyuu no hane kata.</I></div> <div> <I>Karyuu no hane kata.</I></div> <div> <I>Karyuu no hane kata.</I></div> <bR> <div> The Winged-One of the lower reaches.</div> <div> The Winged-One of the lower reaches.</div> <div> The Winged-One of the lower reaches.</div> <div> The Winged-One of the lower reaches.</div> <bR> <div> <B>This is more than likely describing Savior Sephiroth, although it may attest to Sephiroth's fall from grace. A fanfic I've read says that the 'Winged-One' is Lucretia, Sephiroth's mother...odd, no? This might also be taken to mean 'Fallen Angel', or maybe 'Angel from Hell'...</B></div> <bR> <div> (Latin)</div> <div> <I>Glorioso, Generoso.</I></div> <div> <I>Glorioso, Generoso.</I></div> <div> <I>Glorioso, Generoso.</I></div> <div> <I>Glorioso, Generoso.</I></div> <bR> <div> Glorious, noble.</div> <div> Glorious, noble.</div> <div> Glorious, noble.</div> <div> Glorious, noble.</div> <bR> <div> <B>It seems to me that either Sephiroth is very glorious and noble. Glorious, yes. I'm not quite sure about noble, though. Seeing about that end of Disc 1 thing...</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <div> <I>Sephiroth!</I></div> <bR> <div> One-Winged Angel is supposedly adapted from a song from an opera or something. Or something by Handel. Apparently President Shin-Ra has the Handel music One-Winged Angel is based on playing in his office when the Sector Seven Plate is detached. I really don't know, there are lots of sites that I'm sure will be able to tell you. As soon as I bother to look this up, I'll post it. You know, I really don't like to think that my favorite song is copied from something...do you?</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="https://members.tripod.com/bin/counter/id19.htm?00FF00" ALT="[Tripod Counter]">  people wonder about the twisted genius who thought up Savior Sephiroth...</B></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-415/FINAL.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> <B>MIDI playing: One-Winged Angel</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>