Lyrics of Vitium in Opere - Corvus Corax, Ingeborg Schöpf, Klaus Lothar Peters

Vitium in Opere (original)

Disputat cum animo facies rebellis
Mel ab ore profluit, mens est plena fellis;
Non est totum melleum, quod est instar mellis
Facies est alia pectoris quam pellis
Vitium in opere, virtus est in ore
Tegunt picem animi niveo colore
Membra dolent singula capitis dolore
Et radici consonat ramus in sapore
Vitium in opere
Divites divitibus dant, ut sumant ibi
Et occurrunt munera relative sibi
Lex ista celebris, quam fecerunt scribe:
«si tu michi dederis, ego dabo tibi.»

(translation)

He argues with a rebellious spirit
Honey flows from the mouth, the mind is full of gall.
There is no honey that is like honey
Face is different from breast than skin
The fault is in the worker, the virtue is in the soul
They cover the pitch of the soul in a snowy color
Single limbs ache headache
And the raison d'être agrees
Disability in work
The rich give to the rich, to spend there
When tasks occur relative to each other
This famous law, which they did write
"If you give it to me, I will give it to you."