Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Carmina Burana, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna , by - Carl Orff. Release date: 09.10.2013
Song language: English
Carmina Burana, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna |
| O Fortuna |
| velut luna |
| statu variabilis, |
| semper crescis |
| aut decrescis; |
| vita detestabilis |
| nunc obdurat |
| et tunc curat |
| ludo mentis aciem, |
| egestatem, |
| potestatem |
| dissolvit ut glaciem. |
| Sors immanis |
| et inanis, |
| rota tu volubilis, |
| status malus, |
| vana salus |
| semper dissolubilis, |
| obumbrata |
| et velata |
| michi quoque niteris; |
| nunc per ludum |
| dorsum nudum |
| fero tui sceleris. |
| Sors salutis |
| et virtutis |
| michi nunc contraria, |
| est affectus |
| et defectus |
| semper in angaria. |
| Hac in hora |
| sine mora |
| corde pulsum tangite; |
| quod per sortem |
| sternit fortem, |
| mecum omnes plangite! |
| O Fortune, |
| like the moon |
| you are constantly changing, |
| ever waxing |
| and waning; |
| hateful life |
| now oppresses |
| and then soothes |
| as fancy takes it; |
| poverty |
| and power |
| it melts them like ice. |
| Fate — monstrous |
| and empty, |
| you whirling wheel, |
| you are malevolent, |
| well-being is 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, in health |
| and virtue, |
| is against me |
| 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! |