| Ač dnešní doba nepřeje už kostelům a chrámům
| Although today's times do not favor churches and temples anymore
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| Ač zájem lidí obrátil se ke kinům a krámům
| Although people's interest turned to cinemas and shops
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| Ač zanícená kázání už nehodí se jaksi
| Although impassioned sermons no longer fit somehow
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| Do teorie životní a tím méně i v praxi
| Into the theory of life and even less in practice
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| Přec jen byl dobou která ráda hovoří o člověku
| After all, it was a time that likes to talk about a person
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| Uprostřed Prahy zbudován památník Středověku
| A monument to the Middle Ages built in the middle of Prague
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| A ten, který v tom kostelíku oblíben býval u farníků
| And the one that used to be popular with the parishioners in that little church
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| Pro plamenná svá kázání…
| For flaming his sermons…
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| Ten, který neznal, co je strach
| The one who didn't know what fear was
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| Ten, z nehož nezbyl ani prach
| The one with no dust left
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| Unášen kazatelnou asi znova
| Carried away from the pulpit again
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| Metat by musel krutá slova
| He would have to hurl cruel words
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| Do strachem nalomených zad
| To the back broken by fear
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| Rozhoupat chtěl by stěny věží
| He would like to shake the walls of the towers
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| Protože s bojácnými stěží
| Because with the fearful hardly
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| O pravdě hovořit by dokázal
| He could speak the truth
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| A nenašel by mezi všemi
| And he would not find among all
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| Toho kdo lidem v této zemi
| The one who to the people in this country
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| O pravdě hovořit by zakázal
| He would forbid speaking the truth
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| Poznatek do očí by štípal ho jak mýdlo
| The recognition in the eyes would sting him like soap
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| Že lidé bojí se jen o své dobré bydlo
| That people are only worried about their good housing
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| Třesou se před záští maličkých kostelníků
| They tremble before the spite of the little churchmen
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| Svých vlastních sousedů, svých vlastních důvěrníků…
| Your own neighbors, your own confidants…
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| Ten, který neznal, co je strach
| The one who didn't know what fear was
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| Ten, z nehož nezbyl ani prach
| The one with no dust left
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| Unášen kazatelnou asi znova
| Carried away from the pulpit again
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| Metat by musel krutá slova
| He would have to hurl cruel words
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| Do strachem nalomených zad
| To the back broken by fear
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| Do strachem nalomených zad! | To the back broken by fear! |