Smisurata preghiera
Fabrizio De AndréAn English version by Teresa Atzeni | |
BOUNDLESS PRAYER | IMMEASURABLE PRAYER |
High above the shipwrecks from the viewpoint of the towers, bowed and distant over the elements of disaster from the things that happen above the words commemorative of nothing, along an easy wind of satiety, of impunity, | High over the wrecks from the lookouts of the towers bent and distant on the element of disaster from the things that happen above the words commemorative of vacuity along an easy wind of satiety of impunity. |
on the metallic scandal of arms in use or disuse for guiding the column of sadness and smoke that leaves the infinite battles at the falling of night, the majority stands, the majority stands. | Over the metal outrage of weapons in use and disuse to lead the column of pain and smoke which leaves the endless battles at nightfall the majority stays, the majority stays. |
Reciting a rosary of petty ambitions, of thousand-year-old fears, of inexhaustible tricks, cultivating calm, the terrible variety of their own arrogances, the majority stands. | Reciting a rosary of wretch ambitions of millenary fears of inexhaustible tricks quiet cultivating the horrible variety of its own arrogances the majority stays. |
Like an illness, like a misfortune, like an anesthetic, like a habit. | Like a sickness like a bad luck like an anaesthesia like a habit. |
For one who travels in a direction stubborn and contrary, with his special mark of special desperation, and through the vomit of the rejected, he moves the final steps to deliver unto death a drop of splendor, of humanity, of truth. | For those who travel towards a stubborn and opposite direction with their special mark of special despair and amid the vomit of repelled ones move their last steps to give death a drop of brightness of humanity, of verity. |
For him who at Aqaba cured leprosy with a faux saber and sowed his passage with devastating jealousies and children with improbable names, with singers of tango in a vast program of eternity. | For those who at Aqaba treated leprosy with a false sceptre and spread their passage with devastating jealousies and children with improbable names of tango singers in a wide plan of eternity. |
Remember, Lord, these servants disobedient to the laws of the herd. Don’t forget their face that, after so much disbanding, it’s just right that luck helps them. | Remember, Lord, these servants disobedient to the laws of pack do not forget their faces since after so much listing it is only fair that luck help them. |
Like an oversight, like an anomaly, like a distraction, like a duty. | Like an oversight like an anomaly like an inattention like a duty. |