《Funeral Ikos》歌词

歌曲： Funeral Ikos

所属专辑：Cappella

歌手： The King’s Singers&John T

时长： 07:09

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Funeral Ikos (葬礼赞词) - The King's Singers (国王歌手合唱团)[00:00:00]

Written by：John Tavener/Traditional[00:00:00]

Why these bitter words of the dying o brethren[00:00:02]

Which they utter as they go hence[00:00:11]

I am parted from my brethren[00:00:18]

All my friends do I abandon and go hence[00:00:23]

But whither I go that understand I not[00:00:30]

Neither what shall become of me yonder[00:00:38]

Only God who hath summoned me knoweth[00:00:47]

But make commemoration of me with the song[00:00:54]

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:01:03]

Alleluia[00:01:13]

But whither now go the souls[00:01:24]

How dwell they now together there[00:01:29]

This mystery have I desired to learn but none can impart aright[00:01:34]

Do they call to mind their own people as we do them[00:01:47]

Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song[00:01:55]

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:02:07]

Alleluia[00:02:16]

We go forth on the path eternal and as condemned[00:02:29]

With downcast faces present ourselves before the only God eternal[00:02:37]

Where then is comeliness where then is wealth[00:02:48]

Where then is the glory of this world[00:02:57]

There shall none of these things aid us but only to say oft the psalm[00:03:04]

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:03:16]

Alleluia[00:03:25]

If thou hast shown mercy unto man o man[00:03:38]

That same mercy shall be shown thee there[00:03:46]

And if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion[00:03:53]

The same shall there deliver thee from want[00:04:00]

If in this life the naked thou hast clothed[00:04:07]

The same shall give thee shelter there and sing the psalm[00:04:14]

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:04:27]

Alleluia[00:04:36]

Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death[00:04:48]

And the tongue then burneth fiercely and the parched throat is inflamed[00:04:56]

The beauty of the eyes is quenched then the comeliness of the face all altered[00:05:06]

The shapeliness of the neck destroyed and the other parts have become numb[00:05:21]

Nor often say Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:05:34]

Alleluia[00:05:48]

With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder[00:06:02]

That there is paradise wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth[00:06:14]

Let us all also enter into Christ that we may cry aloud thus unto God[00:06:27]

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia[00:06:43]

Alleluia[00:06:53]