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Artist: Alan Menken
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Sanctuary!
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Sanctuary!
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Judex crederis esse venturus
(Our Judge we believe shall come)
In te, Domine, speravi
(In You, Lord, have I trusted)
Non confundar in aeternum
(Let me not be damned for eternity)
Salvum fac populum tuum
(Save Your people)
Judex crederis
(In our Judge we believe)
(Instrumental break)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Libera me Domine (Free me, Lord)
Libera me Domine de morte aeterna
(Free me, Lord, from everlasting death)
In die illa tremenda (On that terrible day)
Quando caeli movendi sunt
(When the heavens shall be moved)
Caeli et terra (The heavens and earth)
Dum verneris judicare
(When though shall come to judge the world)
Saeculum per ignem (The world by fire)
O, salutaris hostai (Oh Saviour, saving victim)
Quae cali pandis ostium
(Who opens the gate of heaven)
Bella premunt hostilia
(Our enemies besiege us)
Da robur, fer auxilium
(Give us strength, bring us aid)
Sit semperterna gloria (May you always be praised)
Sit semperterna gloria (May you always be praised)
Sit semperterna gloria (May you always be praised)
Gloria, gloria semper (Glory, glory forever)
Sanctus (Holy)
Sanctus in excelsis (Holy, in the highest)
Mors stupibet et natura
(Death and nature shall be confounded)
Cum resurget creatura
(When creation shall rise again)
Judicanti responsurra
(To answer for judgment)
Judex ergo cum sedebit
(Therefore, when the Judge will take his seat)
Nul inultum remanebit
(Nothing shall remain unpunished)
Quem patronum rogaturus
(To what protector shall I appeal)
Cum vix justus sit securus?
(When scarcely the just man shall be secure?)
Juste Judex ultionis
(Righteous Judge of vengeance)
Ante diem rationis
(Before the day of reckoning)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
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