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• Member: Astro Girl
• Studio: Digital Goddess Productions
• Title: Shadows in the Dark
• Premiered: 2004-04-06
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Serious
  • Horror
• Song:
  • Apocalyptica O Fortuna
• Anime:
  • Hellsing
• Comments: Finally! man, it took me from like noon to midnight to get this done. With breaks in between for my own sanity of course. Anyway...I've been wanting to do another instrumental video for awhile and i really like this song. I was originally going to do it to bubblegum crisis tokyo 2040, but decided otherwise, and i'm glad i did. the song is in latin so below i've provided the lyrics with a translation, enjoy! Go latin!
  
  O Fortuna,
  velut Luna
  statu variabilis,
  semper crescis
  aut decrescis;
  vita detestabilis
  nunc obdurat
  et tunc curat
  ludo mentis aciem;
  egestatem,
  potestatem,
  dissolvit ut glaciem.
  
  Sors immanis
  et inanis,
  rota tu volubilis,
  status malus,
  vana salus
  semper dissolubilis;
  obumbrata
  et velata
  mihi quoque niteris;
  nunc per ludum
  dorsum nudum
  fero tui sceleris.
  
  Sors salutis
  et virtutis
  mihi nunc contraria;
  est affectus
  et defectus
  semper in angaria.
  hac in hora
  sine mora
  cordae pulsum tangite!
  quod per sortem
  sternit fortem,
  mecum omnes plangite!
  
  Translation:
  O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.
  
  Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.
  
  The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune's service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation!