Eternal - The Best of Libera

Release date: 2009
CD no. 5099924269629
Record Label: Emi Classics

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You Were There
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You were there - in every thing I knew,
From the moment I began
Always there - in every way I grew
Saved me falling - held my hand

You were shelter from the storm
The shadows fade away
All cares pass away
As hour by hour and day by day
Your love lightens up the sky
As it shines across the night,

Ave Regina, coelorum decora,
Virgo gloriosa Ave

And when the end of day is come
Stay with me through the dark and bring me home

You are there - whichever way I go,
Keep me safely - night and day
Always there - whenever I’m alone,
Hear me calling - show the way

You were shelter from the storm
The shadows fade away
All cares pass away
As hour by hour and day by day
Your love lightens up the sky
As it shines across the night,

Ave Regina, coelorum decora,
Virgo gloriosa Ave

And when the end of day is come
Stay with me through the dark and bring me home

Sanctus
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Sanctus, Sanctus

Benedictus qui venit in Domine

Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth,
Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloria

Benedictus in nomine
Qui venit in nomine

Mother of God (Tavener)
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Mother of God here I stand now praying
Before this ikon of your radiant brightness
Not praying to be saved from a battlefield
not giving thanks, nor seeking forgiveness
For the sins of my soul, nor for all the souls
numb joyless and desolate on earth
but for her alone, whom I wholly give you

Salva me
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Domine deus miserere mei

Carry me away
From the dark I fear
When the storm is near
From the endless night
From my blinded sight
To a sky of light

Free me to fly away
Salva me

Carry me away
From the things that harm
On a sea of calm
From the endless night
From my blinded sight
To a sky of light

Love and mercy

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I was sitting in a crummy movie with my hands on my chin
all the violence that occurs seems like we never win
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was lying in my room and the news came on TV
there’s a lot of people out there hurting and it really scares me
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was standing in a bar and watching all the people there
all the loneliness in this world - it’s just not fair
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

Sancte

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Veni Sancte Spiritus, lumen cordia
Veni dator munerum, Pater pauperum
Lux creator optime, Sancte Spiritus

In aeterna lux credentium
sempiterna lumen cordium
In aeterna sancte Spiritus

Creator, mysterium, O lux creator optime
Beata, fidelium, sit sempiterna gloria

Secret

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I wish the dawn may know nothing of the name that I told the night
I wish like mist in the morning it drifts away silently to hide away

So carry away to never see light of day
keep hidden away for eternity - a secret song

I dream the day could proclaim the love of the name that I told the night
I dream that glorious daylight uncovers the mystery I hide away

I pray to hide from the sunset the secret I told the day
I pray to carry away the love and drift away silently and hide away

Do not stand at my grave and weep

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Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight and ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn rain.

When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.

Always with you

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Do you know me, who I am?
I am always with you
I am near you every day,
Always share what you do

Follow the path to anywhere,
A stranger in the world without you
Forever I will be there,
The shadow you always knew

Beati quorum via, integra est

If you think I’ve gone away,
And am never with you
I am not so far away,
Always shadowing you

Libera

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Libera

De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
Domine exaudi vocem meam de profundis

Libera me Domine de morte
Are you the friend I cannot see?
Are you the one who cares for me?
It’s only you can set me free
Aeterna

Libera

Are you my hope of liberty?
Are you the door, are you the key?
It’s only you can set me free
Aeterna

Ave Maria

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Ave Maria, gracia plena
Sancta Maria gracia

Ave Maria, mater Dei
Maria, ora pro nobis

Ora

Gaudete

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Gaudete Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete

Tempus ad est gratiae hoc quod optabamus,
Carmina latitiae, devote redamus

Ergo nostra contio psallat iam in lustro,
Benedicat domino, sallus regi nostro

Gaudete, gaudete christus est natus,
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete

Air on G string

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Ah - (Vocalese)

I am the day

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I am the day, soon to be born
I am the light before the morning

I am the night, that will be dawn
I am the end and the beginning

I am the alpha and omega
The night and day, the first and last

Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
In aeterna

I am the life, soon to begin
I am the new hope in the morning

I am the darkness, soon to be light
I am the rising and the falling

We are the lost

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We are the lost who lived and loved
We felt the dawn saw sunset glow
for now we lie in row on row
in Flanders fields

O lux beata lumina

The larks fly high where guns destroyed
Now poppies grow and crosses show
where now we lie in Flanders fields
in row on row

Time like an ever rolling stream
bears all its sons away
They fly forgotten as a dream
dies at the break of day

We shall not sleep who lived and loved
who felt the dawn saw sunset glow
If you break faith with us who lie
in Flanders fields

From failing hands we throw the torch
Our light be yours to hold it high
For now we lie in Flanders fields
in row on row

Sempiterna (remix)

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Conditor alme siderum
Aeterna lux credentium
Christe redemptor omnium
Exaudi preces supplicum

Qui condolens interitu
Mortis perire saeculum
Salvasti mundum languidum
Donans reis remedium

Laus honor virtus Gloria
Deo Patri cum Filio
Sancto simul paraclito
In sempiterna saecula

Creator conditor perpetua
Exulta clamava in saecula

Orinoco Flow

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Let me sail, let me sail, let the Orinoco flow
Let me reach, let me beach on the shores of Tripoli
Let me sail, let me sail, let me crash upon your shore
Let me reach, let me beach far beyond the yellow sea

Sail away

From Bissau to Palau in the shade of Avalon
From Fiji to Tiree and the Isles of Ebony
From Peru to Cebu, feel the power of Babylon
From Bali to Cali far beneath the Coral Sea

Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, up - Adieu

From the North to the South, Ebudae unto Khartoum
From the deep Sea of Clouds to the Island of the Moon
Carry me on the waves to the lands I’ve never been
Carry me on the waves to the lands I’ve never seen

Far Away

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Whereever I go
Far away and anywhere

Time after time you always shine
through dark of night calling after me

And whereever I climb
Far away and anywhere

You raise me high beyond the sky
through stormy night lifting me above

Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus
Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus
Venite Spiritu Venite Spiri tus

Whenever I cry
Far away and anywhere

You hear me call when shadows fall
your light of hope showing me the way

Gloria

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Gloria in excelsis Deo
Et in terra pax hominibus
Benedicimus te laudamus
Adoramus te Gloria

Gracias agimus Propter magnam
gloriam tuam
Quoniam tu solus sanctus
Dominus tu solus altissimus

Gloria in excelsis Deo
Et in terra pax hominibus
Benenedicimus te laudamus
Adoramus te Gloria

Qui tolis peccata mundi
miserere nobis
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
miserere nobis

Omnipotens Deus Pater
Agnus Dei
Rex coelestis Deus Pater

Gloria in excelsis
Deo Et in terra pax hominibus Benedicimus te laudamus
Adoramus te Gloria

Voca Me

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As secret as a dream you call
As silent as the night for all you cry
Lacrymosa

Lacrymosa dies illa
Dolorosa Domine
Voca
Voca Me

You whisper in my silent sleep
You answer to my call when lost I cry
Lacrymosa

Sing for ever

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I will sing for you at the start of each day,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you
In all things I do in the dawn of’ my life,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you

Shutting out night my life renewed,
Happy for love that is to come
Opening eyes I’ll follow you
Glad to see, glad to be yours

Echoing what you say,
Shining out what you are,
Out of dark, into your light

I will sing for you in the light of each day
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you
In all things I do at the noon of my life,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you

I will sing for you at the end of each day,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you
In all things I do in the eve of my life,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you

I will sing for you each and every day,
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you
In all things I do to the end of my life
I’ll sing for ever, sing for you

Rest in peace

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For all who need comfort for all those who mourn
all those whom we cherished will be reborn
All those whom we love but see no more
they are not perished, but gone before
and lie in the tender arms of he who died for us all to set us free
from hatred and anger and cruel tyranny
may they rest in peace - and rise in glory

All suffering and sorrow will be no more
they’ll vanish like shadows at heaven’s door
All anguish and grieving will one day be healed
when all of God’s purpose will be revealed.
Though now for a season lost from sight
the innocent slain in the blindness of ‘right’
are now in the warmth of God’s glorious light
where they rest in peace - and rise in glory

Lord give me wisdom to comprehend why I survive and not my friend
and teach me compassion so I may live, all my enemies to forgive

For all who need comfort for all those who mourn
all those whom we cherished will be reborn
All those whom we love but see no more
they are not perished but gone before
And Lord keep them safe in your embrace
and fill their souls with your good grace
for now they see you face to face
where they rest in peace - and rise in glory

Adoramus

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Adoramus te rex Gloria
Cum gaudia infinita

Can you lift me away from the dark of this day
Give me courage and help me be free evermore

Can you guide me once more, give me strength to be sure
Send me wisdom and help me be free evermore

May the road rise up

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May the road rise up to meet you
may the wind be always at your back
May the rains fall soft upon you
and the sun shine warm upon your face

And true be the hearts that love you
peace ever with you and until we meet again -
May the path light up before you
and the clouds forsake the skies above
May the warmth of sun surround you
and the stars shine bright to guide you home
And true be the hearts that love you
peace ever with you and until we meet again -
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
May he hold you evermore

Ave Maria

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Ave Maria, gracia plena
Sancta Maria gracia

Ave Maria, mater Dei
Maria, ora pro nobis

Ora

Prayer

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When at night I go to sleep,
Fourteen angels watch do keep
Two my head are guarding,
Two my feet are guiding
Two are on my right hand,
Two are on my left hand
Two who warmly hold me,
Two with love enfold me
Two who show me when I rise
The way to heaven’s paradise

How can I keep from singing

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My life flows on in endless song
Above earth’s lamentation.
I hear the real though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I’m clinging
Since love is lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?

I lift my eyes, the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smoothes,
Since first I learned to love it.
The peace and love makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing;
All things are mine since I am his,
How can I keep from singing?

Be still my soul

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Be still my soul - the Lord is on thy side;
bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
leave to thy God to order and provide;
in every change - he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul - thy best thy heavenly Friend
through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still my soul - when dearest friends depart,
and all is darkened in the vale of tears,
then shalt thou better know his love - his heart,
who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
Be still, my soul - the waves and winds still know
his voice who ruled them - while he dwelt below.

Be still my soul the hour is hastening on
when we shall be forever with the Lord,
when disappointment - grief and fear are gone,
sorrow forgot - love’s purest joys restored,.
Be still my soul - when change and tears are past,
all safe and blessed - we shall meet at last.

Stay with me

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You are everything I know
Which ever way I go
For ever stay with me

Venite angeli
Cantate domino
Laudate

You see me through when ever I’m afraid
However far away
For ever comfort me

You’re on my side whichever way I choose
In everything I do
For ever stay with me

Recordare

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Miserere, recordare
Miserere nobis

Confutatis, maledictis

Recordare, miserere
Dona eis aetarnam requiem
Recordare, miserere
Deprecationem nostram

Salva, salva me

Going Home

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Going home going home
I am going home
Quiet like, some still day
I am going home

It’s not far, just close by,
through an open door
Work all done, care laid by
never fear no more

Mother’s there expecting me
Father’s waiting too
Lots of faces gathered there
All the friends I knew

I’m just going home

No more fear No more pain
No more stumbling by the way
No more longing for the day
Going to run no more

Morning star lights the way
Restless dreams all gone
Shadows gone, break of day
real life has begun

There’s no break, there’s no end
Just living on
Wide awake, with a smile
going on and on

Going home Going home
I am going home
shadows gone break of day
real life has begun

I’m just going home