[Intro] [low industrial drums, distant choir, metallic resonance] Varessai no thévara, [We live beneath the heavens,] sélion drai morévra, [where no true daylight reaches,] caléth anor viessa, [still the city breathes around us,] Hyppodon, Hyppodon. [Verse 1] [restrained voice, pulsing bass, slow mechanical percussion] Dorévan sai nureth, [Through iron halls we wander,] talévia mor saneth, [beneath the weight of ages,] cravion es drauméra, [the walls remember every wound,] velassai tor enéra. [the engines keep on turning.] Nerévai sol maréth, [No morning finds us here,] avessan cor dreléth, [no open sky above us,] soravia nai quessa, [but still our footsteps carry on,] tarévon il varessa. [through the streets that made us.] [Chorus] [full choir, rising strings, heavy drums] Aïra, aïra, varessai, [Rise, rise, endure with us,] noréth en drai calessai, [through darkness and through iron,] Hyppodon, selavéra, [Hyppodon, city below,] coravai na thémera. [our hearts beneath the world.] Aïra, aïra, sorévon, [Rise, rise, children below,] dravai sel Coruscanon, [born beneath Coruscan,] neraï, neraï, varion— [never, never disappear—] talessai Hyppodon. [we belong to Hyppodon.] [Verse 2] [quieter, echoing female vocal, distant machinery] Quarévia lum draessa, [Far above, the lights are burning,] feréth sai volanessa, [ships descend through endless darkness,] tiravon mar quessari, [we watch their distant engines fall,] selévon drai navari. [through the great and hollow passage.] Orévai thren caléth, [Somewhere higher, daylight waits,] saravon ven moréth, [somewhere winds cross open places,] pelassai dor avena, [we have never touched those skies,] corévia nai seréna. [but still we know their names.] [Chorus] [broader orchestra, layered voices] Aïra, aïra, varessai, [Rise, rise, endure with us,] noréth en drai calessai, [through darkness and through iron,] Hyppodon, selavéra, [Hyppodon, city below,] coravai na thémera. [our hearts beneath the world.] Aïra, aïra, sorévon, [Rise, rise, children below,] dravai sel Coruscanon, [born beneath Coruscan,] neraï, neraï, varion— [never, never disappear—] talessai Hyppodon. [we belong to Hyppodon.] [Verse 3] [percussion drops away, solo voice over low strings] Saelévra tor alessai, [Maybe one day we will climb,] meravon di coréssai, [carrying everything behind us,] thalévia sur enoré, [past the towers, past the border,] vairessan tu maloré. [toward a sky we cannot picture.] Ceréth nai drai velessa, [But if the road denies us passage,] oravai sel quinessa, [if the gates remain above us,] na moréth, na caléth— [we will breathe and we will remain—] saressai var deréth. [until the metal remembers us.] [Final Chorus] [massive choir, industrial drums, brass, rising harmonic wall] Aïra, aïra, varessai, [Rise, rise, endure with us,] noréth en drai calessai, [through darkness and through iron,] Hyppodon, selavéra, [Hyppodon, city below,] coravai na thémera. [our hearts beneath the world.] Aïra, aïra, sorévon, [Rise, rise, children below,] dravai sel Coruscanon, [born beneath Coruscan,] neraï, neraï, varion— [never, never disappear—] talessai Hyppodon. [we belong to Hyppodon.] [Outro] [choir fading into machinery hum] Varessai no thévara. [We live beneath the heavens.] Caléth anor viessa. [Still the city breathes around us.] Hyppodon. Hyppodon.