Song Description
O Fortuna is a well known song that is widely used commercially. However the song is in Latin and no one really knows what it means. This is that song properly translated by meaning.
| Song Length |
3:03 |
Genre |
Spoken Word - General, Classical - Classical |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Mood |
Composed, Moving |
| Subject |
Courage, Determination |
Similar Artists |
Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash |
| Language |
English |
Era |
Before 1600 |
Lyrics
The battle is upon us,
we didn't ask for it,
but its here nonetheless.
Some of you,
may be praying,
for good luck to help keep you safe.
Let me tell you somethin,
about old Lady Luck,
that so called
Goddess of Fortune.
Oh Fortuna,
just like the moon,
her cycles are never ending.
Once a glowing delight,
then dark filled with spite,
with a womb that is never conceiving.
Her tight clenched thighs,
reject your tries,
with a wry smile and disingenuous curtsey.
Whether your bonsai,
or a redwood high,
we are but a forest of wet dreaming.
Good luck is her pet,
a fool's worthless bet,
a roulette wheel that is never ceasing.
Whether wealth or status,
vain or pious,
her passions lie only with obliterating.
Behind darkness,
in leather black dress,
a quid pro quo of pure sadistic misery.
Her joy is your pain,
to spoil her games,
we must take all of her depraved treachery.
Her fate hunts us,
it sickens us,
seeding her doubts within our resolve.
We're driven then pursued,
burdened then moved,
somehow indentured to this vile possessor.
Well before deaths clock tolls,
and claims made on our souls,
I will recite for you these eternal words.
That in the end,
fate kills all great men,
so come now,
and become great,
with me.