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Carl Orff - O Fortuna (reprise, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) (English Translation) LyricsO Fortune
Like the moon
You are ever-changing
Ever waxing
And waning;
Hateful life
First oppresses
And then soothes
As it fancies;
Poverty
And power
It melts them like ice
Fate -- monstrous
And empty
Fate, you whirling wheel
You are malevolent
Well-being is in vain
And always fades to nothing
Shadowed
And veiled
You plague me, too;
Now through the game
I bring my bare back
To your villainy
Fate is against me
In health
And virtue
Driven on
And weighted down
Always enslaved
So at this hour
Without delay
Pluck the vibrating strings;
Since Fate
Strikes down the strong man
Everyone weep with me!