An awesome piece of music composed by Nobuo Uematsu. It was used in Final Fantasy VII while fighting Sephiroth.

One Winged Angel was inspired by Carmina Burana, as is noted by its lyrics which are also present in many Carmina Burana songs in adition to the style of music it was composed in.

~Sors immanis, et inanis~, ~Veni, veni, venias~

A brief history of the lyrics' source...
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The lyrics to "A One-Winged Angel" are taken directly from "Carmina
Burana," which is an opera written by Carl Orff in the 1930's. Orff based
his opera on poems from the manuscript "Benediktbeuern." 

The title "Carmina Burana" literally means 'songs of Beuren' and was given
by Johann Andreas Schmeller to his complete edition (1847) of the poems
contained in an early 13th-century German manuscript (found in 1803)  from
the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern, south of Munich in the Bavarian
region.

Since then, the manuscript has been known by that title even though it is
now generally agreed that it probably did not originate in Benediktbeuern
and may have come rather from Seckau.  There are some poems in German, and
several of the poems have music written in unheighted neumes - a
relatively rare style of notation at the time. In total, the manuscript
contains approximately 250 poems. 


Translation of the lyrics

Estuans interius                (Burning inside)
ira vehementi                   (with violent anger,)
Estuans interius                
ira vehementi

The first "verse" is the first two lines of "Estuans interius" (Burning
Inside). This is the opening song to the second part of Carmina Burana,
"In Taberna" (In the Tavern). 

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Sors immanis                    (Fate - monstrous)
Et inanis                       (and empty,)
Sors immanis
Et inanis

These lines are the first two in the second verse of "O Fortuna" (O
Fortune), which is the opening prologue of Carmina Burana, "Fortuna
Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune, Empress of the World). This song has been used
for many things, ranging from Oliver Stone's "The Doors" and "Excalibur"
to commercials for Nescafe instant coffee and Old Spice. Of course, there
are tonnes of horror flicks and movie trailers out there that love to use
this piece.

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Veni, veni, venias,             (Come, come, O come,)
Ne me mori facias               (do not let me die)
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias

The second "verse" is the first two lines from "Veni, veni, venias," 
(Come, come, O come). This is the sixth song from the third section of
Carmina Burana, "Cour d'amours" (The Court of Love). 

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Gloriosa                        (Glorious)
Generosa                        (Noble)

And the last verse from "A One-Winged Angel" comes from "Ave formosissma" 
(Hail, most beutiful one). This song precedes the finale of Carmina
Burana, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" in a subsection entitled "Blanziflor et
Helena" (Blanchefleur and Helen).  However, they do not appear together,
as the first to verses did: 

Ave formosissima,               (Hail, most beautiful one,)
gemma pretiosa,                 (precious jewel,)
ave decus virginum,             (Hail, pride among virgins,)
virgo gloriosa,                 (glorious virgin,)
ave mundi luminar,              (Hail, light of the world,)
ave mundi rosa,                 (Hail, rose of the world,)
Blanziflor et Helena,           (Blanchefleur and Helen,)
Venus generosa!                 (noble Venus!)

Many people wrongfully attribute the lyrics to Haydn's Creation because of a reference
in the closing credits.  Haydn's Creation, however, contains no lyrics.  It is played in
President Shinra's office as the city of Midgar collapses around him, and the excerpt is
purely instrumental.

The Chronicles of Soda Pup: Session 1 - "One Winged Angel"

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"Takeru is a strange wind; he reconciles friends and enemies. Please watch him carefully, before you try to eliminate him", the old hound adjusted the wide-brimmed shade on his head, feeling the coarse straw against his paw.

"Master, your timeless introduction to the art of the sword has prepared me for any contingency", Soda Pup 666 replied. He sniffed the air briefly, savoring it, and adjusted the single-action .38 revolver in his belt. He recites carefully the oath of his clan, "Every battle will be my last; combining the qualities of agent and solder, I will look with wild eyes toward the past and the future."

The old hound just smiled. It was a nice spring day.

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The sun shines on all things, and so it was in the crucible of the city, where the fallen angel, code name: TAKE-RU, made his careful home. He clipped the insistent, feathers growing on the ruin that marked his betrayal of lord God. His double agency, where the loyalties between Sire Rushifell, and the global ultra organic super computer, YEHO-VA7, became deeply confused. His introduction to the art of war was hard-wrought by the travails of slum-life. His weird eyes were set deeply in his head. His sighs outlined patterns of stray chi in the air. He resolved to make his earnest compassion known by at least one person by the end of the day. This was not penance, but merely a function of his body. "No excuses, as above so below", he crossed himself.

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Soda Pup 666 injected himself with the serum that suppressed his vampirism; this was the abhorrent secret hidden behind his cavalier attitude, and good natured smiling. Because of his newly cursed blood, his clan had exiled him, but the oath resonated too deeply in his heart to be forgotten. In his despair, he was tapped by the 'Hell Hounds', enforcers for hire. They hoped to put his clan's martial arts skills to good use. In their hey-day, many emperors sought the power of the Soda Pup clan; they were feared assassins, tacticians, agents, and strategists. Soda Pup 666 was still young, and having not completed his family training, was further tutored in the specialized field-manual military martial arts employed by the Hell Hounds at the time of his enrollment. Master Hell Hound's thick black fur reminded him of his own father.

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Soda Pup 666 cycled through his on-screen menu, and selected the SCOPE from his inventory, he glanced at the description briefly: "Military binoculars allowing long-distance reconnaissance." With a satisfying click, he felt them become equipped; numbers and lines, indicating the level of magnification and relative distance of his target, scrolled indifferently over his eyes as he honed the lens on Takeru. He saw Takeru put a hand through his feathered black hair and lock the door to his apartment. He looked like a skinny rock star, but somehow regal. Soda Pup unequipped his binoculars, and assessed the situation.

Takeru locked the door to his apartment, and put a hand through his hair; he looked forward to peering into the eye of some wounded soul and rooting out the residual pain and hatred in their heart, not unlike the satisfaction one might get from tending a garden. He knew he was being watched, and why. He was always prepared to die. His contacts with Rushifell were long broken; all he had was his work as a healer; all he could do was help as many people as he could before the agents of damage control took him from his great work.

Soda Pup 666 knew he was made, and decided to be direct. He narrowed his body and allowed himself to slide deftly through the basket-ball hoop that was his perch, and scrambling loudly over the chain-link fence of the court, he followed Takeru on four legs for several blocks, his trench coat trailing on the concrete behind him. This was too much for Takeru to ignore, and he confronted Soda Pup before he could embarrass himself any further. "Who sent you?"

Soda Pup 666 barked incomprehensibly, struggling to formulate a cogent response. In his eyes there was a deep well of pain and thwarted compassion that was not lost on Takeru. Soda Pup 666 cocked the hammer of his gun, and with tears streaming down his lean snout, shot the last beautiful thing he ever saw.

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The Chronicles of Soda Pup

Session 1 - "One Winged Angel"

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