Lyrics of The Nihil Propaganda - Vision Divine

The Nihil Propaganda (original)

How could we comprise the Void?
Our small minds can’t keep it in
Getting close to where our conscience fades
Feels like there, while it vanishes away
Nothingness can’t be imagined
We can only knock on the next door
While our lives proceed along their path
Safe and blind, slowly fading away
Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle
E questa siepe, che da tanta parte
Dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
Spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
Silenzi, e profondissima quiete
Io nel pensier mi fingo;
ove per poco
Il cor non si spaura.
E come il vento
Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
Infinito silenzio a questa voce
Vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e il suon di lei.
Così tra questa
Immensità s’annega il pensier mio
We all are the others
Nobody is himself
E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare

(translation)

How could we comprise the Void?
Our small minds can't keep it in
Getting close to where our conscience fades
Feels like there, while it vanishes away
Nothingness can't be imagined
We can only knock on the next door
While our lives proceed along their path
Safe and blind, slowly fading away
This hill was always dear to me
And this hedge, which goes so far
From the last horizon the gaze excludes
But sitting and looking, take it forever
Spaces beyond that, and superhuman
Silence, and very deep stillness
In my thoughts I pretend;
where for a while
The heart is not afraid.
And like the wind
I hear rustling among these plants, I that one
Infinite silence to this voice
I compare myself: and I remember the eternal
And the dead seasons, and the present
And alive, and the sound of her.
So between this
Immensity drowns my thoughts
We all are the others
Nobody is himself
And shipwreck is sweet to me in this sea