Album version 4:09 Latin 1988

Liner notes

The journey home…
my journey ends here.
notes by Roma Ryan
A Box of Dreams, 1997

My journey is over, my journey ends here.
notes by Roma Ryan
Only Time: The Collection, 2002

Quotes about the song

Enya: "When we came to ‘Cursum Perficio’, we wanted to leave the voices bold and up-front, as in a choral piece. We knew we couldn’t really adapt the Gaelic or the English, and we knew it would work well with the Latin. Actually, we really don’t mind what language it’s in, as long as it complements the music."
A Mystic Named Eithne Ni Bhraonain, CD Review, 1989, enyabookofdays.com

Enya: "The sound was more important than the text. The choir is important. (..) ‘Cursum Perficio’ comes from a documentary about Marilyn Monroe. It means ‘Here ends my journey’ and that saying was engraved in the entrance of her last house. But that’s how it often happens. Those two words haunted me for weeks and than I finally used them in a song."
Interview in Belgium, 1988
Enya unofficial homepage (no longer online)

Latin lyrics

Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
dadadadadadadada…
aaah…mmmmmm… aah
aaah.. mmmmmm… aah…
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
Cursum perficio
aaah… aaaah… aaah
Cursum perficio
Aaah… aaah aaah
Verbum (sat) sapienti
eo plus cupiunt
Verbum (sat) sapienti
eo plus cupiunt
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt
Verbum (sat) sapienti
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt
Verbum (sat) sapienti
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt
Verbum (sat) sapienti
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt
Verbum (sat) sapienti
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
Post nubila, Phoebus
(in) aeternum
(in) aeternum
(in) aeternum

Translation

…my journey ends here…

…my journey ends here…
(repeat)

…a word is enough for the wise;
the more one has, the more he desires…
(repeat)

…after the clouds, the light…
(repeat)

…forever…
(repeat)

lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 1988