O Fortuna

[Dreamingwolf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrML6s1wNHk

O Fortune,
just as the moon
Stands constantly changing,
always increasing
or decreasing;
Detestable life
now difficult
and then easy
Deceptive sharp mind;
poverty
power
it melts them like ice.

Fate—monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
stand malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game,
my bare back
I bring to your villainy.

Fate, in health
and in virtue,
is now against me
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since through Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!

[LissaMarie]

Love this song!! Thanks for the translation, Wolf. It really seems fitting, doesn't it?

[notsolost42]

One of THE best pieces of music ever composed! Man, I love this!!! Evil incarnate indeed!!!!!

[Dreamingwolf]

ya I love this song, and I just bought excalibur on dvd and me and a friend were talking about it and we got to talking about this great piece.

So I youtubed it and found that translation, and I got to thinkin' there are some connections here. Ive always loved that piece and never knew what it was saying.

[notsolost42]

Originally Posted by Dreamingwolf

ya I love this song, and I just bought excalibur on dvd and me and a friend were talking about it and we got to talking about this great piece.

So I youtubed it and found that translation, and I got to thinkin' there are some connections here. Ive always loved that piece and never knew what it was saying.

The translation is quite remarkable. I've never seen it before. Just the music alone is so intense and driving that the words transcend any language barrier. Great find.

[Dreamingwolf]

I noticed that the words I posted dont match up to the video, I think the video matches up to LOST much better.

[Dreamingwolf]

the quote from the video "you are changeable" is the one I like the most, it is what I think the sideways are about. They fundementally changed their souls and they had different out comes.