Gem: Why do my best ideas come at the most random times? I owned a bowl of chili but I ate it. That's all I really owned while writing this. And here's the meaning of the Latin in this song: Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti: I confess to God almighty; Beatae Mariae semper Virgini: To blessed Mary ever Virgin; Beato Michaeli archangelo: To the blessed archangel Michael; Sanctis apostolis omnibus sanctis: To the holy apostles, to all the saints; Et tibit Pater: And to you, Father; Quia peccavi nimis: That I have sinned; Cogitatione: In thought; Verbo et opera: In word and deed; Mea culpa: Through my fault; Mea maxima culpa: Through my most griveous fault; Kyrie Eleison: Lord have mercy.
So many times out here
I've watched a happy pair
Of lovers walking in the night
They had a kind of glow around them
It almost looked like heaven's light
He normally wasn't one to listen to on people singing especially if he was competing for the affection of his own brother's lover. They made a happy pair and both were glowing in that strange way humans had.
I knew I'd never know
That warm and loving glow
Though I might wish with all my might
No face as hideous as my face
Was ever meant for heaven's light
He had seen her in the past years stare at him. He never knew if he would get his heaven.
But suddenly an angel has smiled at me
And kissed my cheek without a trace of fright
She smiled and kissed him once at a formal banquet. He thought she was scared of him.
I dare to dream that she
Might even care for me
And as I ring these bells tonight
My cold dark tower seems so bright
I swear it must be heaven's light
Did she care for him? Or was that kiss a kiss between friends? She was his heaven and he couldn't have her. His brother had her; she was his heaven.
Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti
Beatae Mariae semper Virgini
Beato Michaeli archangelo
Sanctis apostolis omnibus sanctis
Of course if they got married, he would be invited to the wedding. He wasn't religious and he swore that neither one of them were religious either. Well, maybe she was but his brother certainly wasn't.
Beata Maria
You know I am a righteous man
Of my virtue I am justly proud
He joined in quietly. He was a righteous man.
Et tibit Pater
Beata Maria
You know I'm so much purer than
The common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd
Was he really that much purer than the people he was trying to destroy? He was partially to blame for his brother being there. But he wanted to keep his little brother safe; he personally had gone mad.
Quia peccavi nimis
Then tell me, Maria
Why I see her dancing there
Why her smold'ring eyes still scorch my soul
He had danced with her once. Part of the dance had required her to dance by herself and he knew deep down that he wanted her.
Cogitatione
I feel her, I see her
The sun caught in her raven hair
Is blazing in me out of all control
He loved her hair. Her hair made him want her even more than he already did. No! He must control himself.
Verbo et opere
Like fire
Hellfire
This fire in my skin
This burning
Desire
Is turning me to sin
Before he came here, he didn't believe in hell or the fires of it. But was it wrong to lust after your brother's lover?
It's not my fault
None of this was his fault.
Mea culpa
I'm not to blame
The blame was not his. She was too pretty to resist.
Mea culpa
It is the gypsy girl
The witch who sent this flame
She had sent the flame with her one kiss.
Mea maxima culpa
It's not my fault
No! It wasn't his fault!
Mea culpa
If in God's plan
Could he honestly believe in a god? Garland had his own plan and that didn't involve an actual god.
Mea culpa
He made the devil so much
Stronger than a man
If he didn't believe in a god, then he most certainly didn't believe in a devil. The priests in that church made the devil seem so much stronger.
Mea maxima culpa
Protect me, Maria
Don't let this siren cast her spell
Don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone
Destroy Esmeralda
And let her taste the fires of hell
Or else let her be mine and mine alone
But he needed protecting from both himself and his brother. She had accidentally cast her spell on him. He didn't want to destroy her but he wasn't her to experience hell for what she did to him unless she came to him. She would be his and his alone.
Minister Frollo, the gypsy has escaped
She had escaped from his grasp.
What?
That had been his reaction when she escaped. One simple little word conveyed so much.
No longer in the cathedral. She's gone
She wasn't down in that underground chamber. Instead, he had been holding her.
But how? Never mind. Get out, you idiot
I'll find her. I'll find her if I have to burn down all of Paris
He had intended to find her no matter if he had to destroy more cities.
Hellfire
Dark fire
Now gypsy, it's your turn
Choose me or
Your pyre
Be mine or you will burn
She needed to be his or she would burn.
Kyrie Eleison
God have mercy on her
He hoped God had mercy on her for his own thoughts.
Kyrie Eleison
God have mercy on me
He hoped God had mercy on him.
Kyrie Eleison
But she will be mine
Or she will burn!
She had better be his by the end of this. She didn't belong with his brother!
She will be mine!