Libera nos Domine
Francesco GucciniVersione latina di Riccardo Venturi [2002] | |
DELIVER US, LORD | LIBERA NOS DOMINE |
From skinned and black death, From unnatural death, From untimely death, From industrial death From death by the police, By a fool, by a general By dioxine or dyestuff By a street accident From stray bullets Of any kind or ideal From all these disgraces And from any other evil Deliver us, deliver us, Deliver us, Lord. | A morte nigra et sicca A morte innaturali A morte praematura A morte biomechanica Astynomica manu Insani vel praetoriani A dioxina, a pigmentis A viario accidente A pyrobolis omnigenis Errantibus in aëra A totis his rebus Et ab omni alio malo Libera, libera, libera, Libera nos, Domine. |
From all the fools and morons Of any race and colour, From reactionaries, bigots From their odour of sanctity, From crazy Jacobins And from their fervour, From visionaries and martyrs Of hatred and terror From them, who kick you up to heaven Then tell you, “It's just for love”, From the Manichees screaming “Or you're with us, or you're a traitor” Deliver us, deliver us, Deliver us, Lord. | A stultis ex omnibus Gentium varie pictis A sanctae fidei adeptis Ab eorum odore Ab insanis Iacobinis Ab eorum ardore Ab idolatris et martyribus Odii et terroris A paradisi fautoribus Dicentibus "est pro amore", A manichaeis ululantibus "Nisi nobiscum prodes" Libera, libera, libera, Libera nos Domine. |
From the poor of spirit, From intolerant people, From false intellectuals, From incompetent journalists, From heroes, navigators, Prophets, bards, saints, From presumptuous, arrogant And self-confident persons, From the cynism of many, From the fancies of more, From the mean egoism Everybody slips on, Deliver us, deliver us, Deliver us, Lord. | A spiritus pauperibus Et ab intolerantibus A falsis sapientibus, Ab hebdomadiariis incultis Ab herois, navigatoribus, Prophetis, vatibus, sanctis A firmis in se Vanis et adrogantibus A multorum cynismo, A plurium desideriis A recondito egoismo Quem omnes habemus Libera, libera, libera, Libera nos Domine. |
From Thee, from Thy images And from the fear of Thee, From the priests of any faith, From any lies they say, From hells and heavens And from any afterlife, From any utopias trying To soothe Death's certainty, From crusades and crusaders, From any holy writ, From possessed believers Of any kind and nature Deliver us, deliver us, Deliver us, Lord. | A te, a tuis imaginibus Et a tui timore Ab omnium deum sacerdotibus Et ab eorum mendaciis Ab inferis et caelis, A vita ultra mortem, Ab utopiis quae solentur Nos a morte certa A cruciatis bellatoribus, Ab omni sacra scriptura A fidelibus bacchantibus Omnis generis et naturae Libera, libera, libera, Libera nos Domine. Libera, libera, libera, Libera nos Domine libera, libera, libera, libera nos Domine. |