LYRICS · ACT II · ORBIS
Una Anima — One Soul
Track 13 on Orbis: The War, Act II of Black Swarm’s Latin electronic opera.
Latin lyrics & English translation
LATINENGLISH
Adferte librum
Numera animas
Numerate mortuos
Numerate
Bring the book
Count the souls
Count the dead
Count them
Mille animae
Mille animae
Decem milia
Decem milia
A thousand souls
A thousand souls
Ten thousand
Ten thousand
(Centum milia… centum milia…)
(A hundred thousand… a hundred thousand…)
Centum milia
Decies centena milia
Decies centena milia
Decies… centena… milia
A hundred thousand
A million
A million
A… mil… lion
Tot animae
Tot… animae
Quis numerabit me?
So many souls
So many… souls
Who will count me?
Una anima
Una… anima
One soul
One… soul
Amor meus means both “my love” the feeling and “my love” the man; the opera uses both.