Pie Jesu Lyrics

Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber as the penultimate motet on his 1984's Missa Pro Defuncti, "Pie Jesu" was first performed by Sarah Brightman at NYC's Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church during a Requiem Mess in the memory of Weber's progenitor. Weber's Requiem doesn't follow the traditional Requiem Sequence (Introito, Kyrie, etc.) constructed around the latin hymn "Dies Irae", where a "Pious Jesus" is only referenced on the final verses of Agnus Dei, wich is often the final movement on a musical Requiem. Gabriel Fauré created an entire passage based upon those verses, beign the first composer to dedicate the "Pie Jesu" an entire movement on a Requiem. Baron Lloyd-Webber's libretto goes a bit further by getting rid of the Agnus Dei only to embed a lighten version of the deeply remorseful original verses (Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis., Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.) on the Pie Jesu itself. Moto Boy turned the composition into a deeply moving, timid motet, quitely pouring his voice over a beautifully dubitative guitar accompaniment.