Inner Universe

The vocals are simply amazing. I fell in love with this song the first time I watched the series. It might even top the series itself :p

Aeria gloris is "heavenly glory" in latin

Entire song translation:

Angels and demons were circling above me Swishing through the hardships and milky ways The only one who doesn't know happiness is the one who couldn't understand its call

Watch in awe, watch in awe Heavenly glory, heavenly glory

I am Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling To stay myself longer... Calling Calling, in the depth of longing To stay myself longer...

Watch in awe, watch in awe Heavenly glory, heavenly glory

Stand alone... Where was life when it had a meaning... Stand alone... Nothing's real anymore and...

...Endless run... While I'm alive, I can try not to fall while flying, Not to forget how to dream... how to love ...Endless run...

Calling Calling, For the place of knowing There's more that what can be linked Calling Calling, Never will I look away For what life has left for me Yearning Yearning, for what's left of loving

To stay myself longer... Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling To stay myself longer... Calling Calling, in the depth of longing To stay myself longer...

Watch in awe, watch in awe Heavenly glory, heavenly glory

is this the Ghost in the Shell song?

It is the opening theme to it any way, hence the reference to stand alone, a series named the stand alone complex. "Yearning yearning, for what's left of loving " and "Stand alone... nothing's real anymore" is in reference to the fact that she was once a human child with feelings and emotions but had to become an artificial being in order to survive.

btw, search "lithium flower" if ghost in the shell interests you.

I think there are a few lines missing:

Mana du vortes - The flow will catch you Mana du vortes - The flow will catch you Aeria Gloris - Flying in Glory Aeria Gloris - Flying in Glory

"Aeria Gloris" is old latin I think.

i think that 'mana du vortes' could actually be 'nalybuites' - russian for 'watch in awe'. The perfect song for Stand ALone Complex though. It can sum up Motoko like nuthin else. Also, a nod has to go to origa, who actually perform the song. That is some seriously amazing vocals.

Although "Nalyubuites" is listed on most lyric pages (including the Yoko Kanno Project), it sounds a lot more like "Mana du vortes" to me. If you listen carefully it's Latin, not Russian. There is some debate on this elsewhere, and the consensus was that it's "Mana du vortes."

@ comebackkurdt: i read your comment, listened to Inner Universe on my ipod a bunch of times pretty loudly and clearly, and i am pretty sure it's Mana du vortes.

While the intro is bland enough to have almost made me turn it off the first time I listened to it, I'm glad my fiancee forced me to listen to the whole song. It's an amazing, amazing piece.

It captures the melancholy of the main character perfectly. She has replaced all of her physical body with android parts -- brain included -- and has lost the anchor of her "ghost" (her consciousness or soul) to physical reality and has begun to drift away on the waves of the 'net.