“You Will Come as Lightning” - Hymn to Constantinople

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  • Опубліковано 15 жов 2023
  • A Greek song about the fall of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and a major holy site. The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Roman Empire.
    Song by Stamatis Spanoudakis.
    “God forbid that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can, and whoever is ready to face death, let him follow me.”
    - Constantine XI
    English Lyrics:
    You will come as a lightning
    The country will have feast
    The sea, the earth and the sky
    In your light
    I will wear white clothes
    To touch you again
    You light and, my heart, me
    How much I love you
    King of Kings Help the King
    Mercy, mercy, God, of Heaven
    Constantine Dragases Palaiologos
    By the grace of God, Emperor of Romans
    In the Gate of Saint Romanus
    Astride on his whitelegged horse
    Four Betas, mercy, mercy, Marmaras
    Bosphorus and Black Tuesday
    The sun shone, the earth sighed:
    The City has fallen, the City has fallen
    The Queen of Cities, golden gate
    And Porphyrogenitus in the Red Apple-tree
    The city was the sabre, the city was the spear
    The city was the key of the entire Roman Empire
    Fall silent, Mother of God, and don't cry much
    Again with years and times will be Yours
    In the Gate of Saint Romanus
    You went away to another place
    And an angel will bring you here
    In right time
    Inside the Hagia Sophia
    We will find each other again on future liturgy
    Greeks together
    King of Kings Help the King
    Mercy, mercy, God, of Heaven
    Constantine Dragases Palaiologos
    By the grace of God, Emperor of Romans
    In the Gate of Saint Romanus
    Astride on his whitelegged horse
    Four Betas, mercy, mercy, Marmaras
    Bosphorus and Black Tuesday
    The sun shone, the earth sighed:
    The City has fallen, the City has fallen
    The Queen of Cities, golden gate
    And Porphyrogenitus in the Red Apple-tree
    The city was the sabre, the city was the spear
    The city was the key of the entire Roman Empire
    Fall silent, Mother of God, and don't cry much
    Again with years and times will be Yours
    In the Gate of Saint Romanus
    You went away to another place
    And an angel will bring you here
    In right time
    Inside the Hagia Sophia
    We will find each other again on future liturgy
    Greeks together
    Constantine Dragases Palaiologos
    Transliteration:
    Thá ‘rtheis san astrapí
    thá’ chei i chóra giortí
    thálassa gi kai ouranós
    sto dikó sou fos.
    Tha ntythó sta lefká
    na s’ angíxo xaná
    fos esý kai kardiá mou egó
    póso s’ agapó.
    Vasiléfs Vasiléon, Vasileí Voíthei,
    éleos, éleos Epouránie Theé
    Konstantínos Dragátsis Palaiológos,
    éleo Theoú Aftokrátor ton Romaíon.
    Stin pýli tou agíou Romanoú,
    kavaliká tin fára tou tin aspropodarátin,
    Téssera Víta, éleos, éleos,
    Marmarás, Vósporos kai Mávri Tríti
    Fríxon ílie, sténaxon gi,
    Eálo í póli, Eálo i póli
    Vasilévousa, pýli chrysí
    ki o porfyrogénnitos stin kókkini miliá.
    I póli ítan to spathí, i póli to kontári,
    i póli ítan to kleidí tis Romanías ólis
    Sópase Kyrá Déspoina kai min polydakrýzeis,
    páli me chrónia me kairoús, páli diká Sou thá nai.
    Stin pýli tou agíou Romanoú
    éfyges gia alloú
    ki ángelos tha se férei edó
    ston sostó kairó.
    Mes tin Ágia Sofiá
    tha vrethoúme xaná
    leitourgía mellontikí oi Éllines mazí.
    Vasiléfs Vasiléon, Vasileí Voíthei,
    éleos, éleos Epouránie Theé
    Konstantínos Dragátsis Palaiológos,
    éleo Theoú Aftokrátor ton Romaíon.
    Stin pýli tou agíou Romanoú,
    kavaliká tin fára tou tin aspropodarátin,
    Téssera Víta, éleos, éleos,
    Marmarás, Vósporos kai Mávri Tríti
    Fríxon ílie, sténaxon gi,
    Eálo í póli, Eálo i póli
    Vasilévousa, pýli chrysí
    ki o porfyrogénnitos stin kókkini miliá.
    I póli ítan to spathí, i póli to kontári,
    i póli ítan to kleidí tis Romanías ólis
    Sópase Kyrá Déspoina kai min polydakrýzeis,
    páli me chrónia me kairoús, páli diká Sou thá nai.
    Stin pýli tou agíou Romanoú
    éfyges gia alloú
    ki ángelos tha se férei edó
    ston sostó kairó.
    Mes tin Ágia Sofiá
    tha vrethoúme xaná
    leitourgía mellontikí oi Éllines mazí.
    Konstantínos Dragátsis Palaiológos

КОМЕНТАРІ • 98

  • @talkingpie1
    @talkingpie1 9 місяців тому +54

    Augustus, Justinian, and Constantine, THEY WILL BE WATCHING!

    • @Isidore-hj4cm
      @Isidore-hj4cm 2 місяці тому +2

      DESTIN ACCOMPLIR POUR NOS SŒUR ARMER AUSSI JUSTICE DEPUIS LAGE DES TEMPS

  • @robdealb91
    @robdealb91 9 місяців тому +59

    Wonderful version! For me, as italian and catholic, every 29th of may is a mourn and sad day, the true end of an era; Saint Constantine XI, great like Saint Constantine Equal to Apostles, died like a hero, with him Roman Empire is not totally dead!

    • @OldZanoZa
      @OldZanoZa 2 місяці тому +2

      Χαιρετισμούς από την Τρίτη Ρώμη❤ Moscow

  • @valiatus6719
    @valiatus6719 23 дні тому +2

    Regardless of what denomination of Christianity you are the loss of Constantinople and the last of the Roman Empire is a catastrophic loss, may the Empire live on forever in our hearts.

  • @SUDMONEYBAGS
    @SUDMONEYBAGS 9 місяців тому +22

    WE'RE COMING BACK AS LIGHTING WITH THIS ONE

  • @muhammadzaki3405
    @muhammadzaki3405 3 місяці тому +8

    Imagine you are the heroes and saving the world by this anthem it must be so f epic!!😢

    • @codysagert5209
      @codysagert5209 3 місяці тому +2

      let’s play this when aliens invade earth

  • @FlavioBelisario5822
    @FlavioBelisario5822 9 місяців тому +35

    Approved! 🇬🇷✝️☦️

  • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
    @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 5 місяців тому +10

    ROME shall never truly die, not as long as one of us lives on to keep that dream alive, for we are its Legion, its countless, nameless, faceless, sons and daughters, we are here, we are ready, waiting for the call, for the return of the Augustus, the First Citizen, the Imperator,
    Constantinople shall be reclaimed from the barbarians!
    The crimson banner shall flutter in the winds once more, the Aquila shall rise with the sun again!
    AVE IMPERATOR, SOL INVICTUS, DEUS VULT!

    • @demori1097
      @demori1097 3 місяці тому +1

      Try to take it then Rome empire has fallen accept this

    • @demori1097
      @demori1097 3 місяці тому +1

      GLORY OF TURKS

    • @lordedmundblackadder9321
      @lordedmundblackadder9321 19 днів тому

      Kind of ironic you say Deus Vult when Augustus and Aurelian would both be considered heretics by the medieval Church.

    • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
      @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 19 днів тому

      @@lordedmundblackadder9321 As does the Church at times wonder why America did not commit to aid Greece in order to liberate holy city of Constantinople during WW I & after

    • @Mohammed-Ali-Salama
      @Mohammed-Ali-Salama 13 днів тому

      You will wait for ever loser

  • @jackmack6217
    @jackmack6217 9 місяців тому +12

    God bless the Roman Empire.

    • @kalunki
      @kalunki 5 місяців тому +1

      Ost - Rom , ja❤❤❤

  • @l..l..l..l..l..l..l..l
    @l..l..l..l..l..l..l..l 9 місяців тому +15

    City of the EMPERORS

  • @mikaelnilsson7313
    @mikaelnilsson7313 9 місяців тому +16

    Great song!

  • @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded
    @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded 8 місяців тому +13

    Δοξά του Βυζάντιο!

  • @ChadMcChopper.
    @ChadMcChopper. 2 місяці тому +1

    God bless Greece and the Roman Empire

  • @SHIITE-IRAQI
    @SHIITE-IRAQI 9 місяців тому +4

    Great !

  • @edermanutencaoejardim9138
    @edermanutencaoejardim9138 Місяць тому +1

    Glory to the Byzantine Empire, long live the double-headed eagle ✝️

  • @ryannowo5954
    @ryannowo5954 9 місяців тому +2

    nice video man

  • @Real_MrDev
    @Real_MrDev 9 місяців тому +13

    And then, the Roman Empire fell, fell for good. After hundreds of years of perpetual decline the last stroke brought end to a glorious Empire that has influced us for the past millennia and it will continue to do so, Rome, the Eternal City, sacked multiple times, and Constantinople, the Golden city, burned and butchered.
    Truely, a fascinating history.

  • @mushroomy9899
    @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +23

    Thank you for watching! Yes that is a correct byzantine flag, the famous one is the flag of the dynasty of Palaiologos. That one was commonly used by the orthodox church, Byzantium had no national flag.

    • @TheNumerosopher
      @TheNumerosopher 9 місяців тому +1

      Their flag symbol, that's the crest of Shamash / Utu isn't it?
      Grandson of Enlil (El Shaddai)?

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +1

      @@TheNumerosopherI’m unfamiliar with those, i know that shamash is an Assyrian god?? Never heard of it. This just represented the church which they led, thought it fit.

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@TheNumerosopherthe double headed eagle was used as a symbol of the ancient Hittites before being adopted by the Romans, where it was spread all over central-eastern Europe.

    • @yodasmomisondrugs7959
      @yodasmomisondrugs7959 9 місяців тому +1

      @@TheNumerosopher Yes it was, and it was the flag then adopted by Sultan Mehmed II and later became the symbol for Islam, which I find ironic from a religious and historical stand point.

    • @EnToutoiNika
      @EnToutoiNika 8 місяців тому +1

      @@TheNumerosopher No, what??? The double-headed Eagle represented Rome & Constantinople.
      The "symbol" around the neck of the Eagle on some versions is the family monogram iirc.
      The flag with the gold cross and the four firestriker-shaped Betas in the corners is the tetragrammatic cross, which is associated with the Palaiologos dynasty.
      tf you on about???

  • @mushroomy9899
    @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +13

    I’ve noticed a small subtitle mistake near the end of the song but whatever you guys probably don’t speak greek lmao.

    • @simbadooo9055
      @simbadooo9055 9 місяців тому +1

      Lmao I love your atitude " but whatever you guys probably don’t speak greek lmao".

    • @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded
      @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded 8 місяців тому

      My ancestors were Greek and i can read Greek letters and know many Greek words and sentences.

    • @tartass
      @tartass 2 місяці тому

      i can feel it even if i don’t know greek

  • @pecundangkelas2909
    @pecundangkelas2909 7 місяців тому +12

    Saya seorang muslim dan saya berbeda pandangan dengan muslim yang lain, tentang penaklukan konstantinopel. Al fatih tidak mewakili apa yang ada didalam hadis, itu adalah kejahatan dan kami sangat malu akan hal itu. Dimasa depan jelas turki akan ditaklukan dan muslim akan mengembalikan kota itu kepemilik aslinya. InsyaAllah

    • @FlavioBelisario5822
      @FlavioBelisario5822 4 місяці тому +5

      My respect for your opinion. God Bless you. 🙏

    • @Mohammed-Ali-Salama
      @Mohammed-Ali-Salama 13 днів тому

      You aren't Muslim. talk about your self not all Muslims

    • @pecundangkelas2909
      @pecundangkelas2909 13 днів тому

      @@Mohammed-Ali-Salama anda tidak berhak mengatakan saya bukan muslim, hanya karna berbeda pandangan tentang kristen (Ortodoks). aku tidak sendirian, sebagian kecil muslim mempercayai bahwa yang dilakukan Ottoman adalah keliru dan melanggar aturan Al-quran agar melindungi semua tempat ibadah termasuk gereja dan kuil yahudi sekalipun. " Ketika Bizantium menang, orang-orang yang beriman akan berbahagia". Dimasa depan Russia akan menang perang melawan NATO dan Turki, kami akan sangat bahagia karna nya, ambil lagi kota suci berikut gereja nya !!

  • @imperitalica
    @imperitalica 4 місяці тому

    Long life to the Roman Empire!!!🇮🇹🇬🇷

  • @superyamky
    @superyamky 6 місяців тому +1

    ☦️

  • @Dojg
    @Dojg 9 місяців тому +1

    Yo i am the second Greek here

  • @mikkelbjerring2914
    @mikkelbjerring2914 9 місяців тому +1

    What's the flag from?

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +1

      A common symbol used by the romans as well as a common flag flown by the orthodox church as explained in the pinned comment.

  • @TheGavrakos
    @TheGavrakos 9 місяців тому +4

    I am the one greek here?

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +2

      I mean technically i’m half greek, i think there’s one other guy.

    • @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded
      @ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded 8 місяців тому

      @@mushroomy9899And me

  • @Bofantvos
    @Bofantvos 9 місяців тому +2

    Greek Will survive ant never fall

  • @marinaagriopoulou3933
    @marinaagriopoulou3933 5 місяців тому


    '''CONSTANTINOU ⬛ ⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛
    |🟧⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛ ⬛ P O L I S

  • @zaranski2009
    @zaranski2009 6 місяців тому +8

    Constantinople was stolen but it is still Constantinople!

    • @Mohammed-Ali-Salama
      @Mohammed-Ali-Salama 13 днів тому

      Actually, It is Istanbul for ever. Constantinople passed away, wake up

  • @dogechrist
    @dogechrist 9 місяців тому

    Tick Tick 💥 goes the mushroom. We put them all in that dark room called... Ад вечный! 😅

  • @walidovwalid6441
    @walidovwalid6441 4 місяці тому +1

    Islamople 😎😎

  • @turkishcollector8419
    @turkishcollector8419 9 місяців тому +3

    It is Turkish for past 570 years and It shall remain Turkish for eternity.

    • @Raimotarkki
      @Raimotarkki 9 місяців тому

      Average 80 IQ turk comment

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +17

      I never said it wouldn’t, it’s just a song. No matter who you are you must understand the importance of that city.

    • @levinb1
      @levinb1 9 місяців тому +26

      500 years is just a blip of the total history of humanity.

    • @Center_Plaza
      @Center_Plaza 9 місяців тому

      Turks can’t have opinions

    • @dogechrist
      @dogechrist 9 місяців тому +17

      The entire world belongs to God. 🤲🙏🤝

  • @stark-men4265
    @stark-men4265 9 місяців тому +3

    Do it for Mali empire too please

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +1

      The issue is there aren’t that many songs from the mali empire, if you have one you’d like me to use i’d go ahead and make a video for it.

    • @stark-men4265
      @stark-men4265 9 місяців тому +1

      @@mushroomy9899 yeah it’s for what I ask you because me too I don’t know a lot

    • @mushroomy9899
      @mushroomy9899  9 місяців тому +2

      @@stark-men4265I do know some mali folk music, but as far as i know there are no recordings of songs from the mali empire. There’s a chance i could find one about Mansa Muds just because of how famous he is though.