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All the lyrics in "One-Winged Angel" are actually excerpts from a 15th-16th century text, the Carmina Burana, poems written by monks, and set to music by Carl Orff.
The opening line, "Estuans interius, ira vehementi" is the opening line of "Estuans Interius (Burning Inside)" from the In Taberna section of Carmina Burana.
The second line, "Sors immanis, et inanis" is from the second verse of the famous opening chorale "O Fortuna" from the Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) section.
The last line, "Veni veni venias, ne me mori facias (come, come, o come, do not let me die)" is from the piece "Veni veni venias" in the Cour d'amour (Court of Love) section.
Interestingly, though this applies to none of the 'ANgel' text, much of the text of Carmina Burana is erotica written by medieval monks. The influence of the composer of Carmina Burana, Carl Orff (1895-1982), is extremely noticeable in the works of Uematsu, which may have led to the text choice
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