Okay, after 30 minutes of research, I'm throwing my hands up and crying in frustration.

Does ANYBODY ON EARTH, including the composer, know the ACTUAL lyrics to the chorus for Yoko Kanno's "Inner Universe?"

I've seen two different Russian words and one BS-looking phrase in "Old Latin" offered up for the first line, all in roughly _equal_ numbers, and a bunch of Latin pedants saying "Aeria gloris" is definitely not a thing.

I'm going full Twilight Sparkle Lesson Zero here folks. *frazzle*🙀​

More detail for the curious:

The Russian I'm seeing either is "Налюбуйтесь" or "Полюбуйтесь" — which anime fans insist BOTH mean "watch in awe," yet Google translates respectively as "Happy Birthday" and "Have fun." *hackles start to rise*

I'm also seeing "Mana du Vortus," which sounds like Elementary School Latin to me and ONLY appears in searches for Inner Universe lyrics, and "No one to notice," which is so wrong it makes me want to start biting through whole two-by-fours. =>_<=

Argh.

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Man, if there were ever evidence that Internet hive minds just don't work, that would be song lyrics pages. -_-

So much work to be done. I can't even find a lyrics deciphering community anywhere, and you'd think this would be SOMEONE else's hobby.

Deep breath, murdercat. If you can get through Love Tractor, if you can get through Grenadine, you can get through this...

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