--- Carmina Burana --- Lyrics

1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

O Fortuna, --- Ó Fortuna,
velut luna --- És como a lua
statu variabilis, --- Mutável,
semper crescis --- Sempre aumentas
aut decrescis; --- Ou diminuis;
vita detestabilis --- A detestável vida
nunc obdurat --- Ora oprime
et tunc curat --- E ora cura
ludo mentis aciem, --- Para brincar com a mente;
egestatem, --- Miséria,
potestatem --- Poder,
dissolvit ut glaciem. --- Ela os funde como gelo.

Sors immanis --- Sorte monstruosa
et inanis, --- E vazia,
rota tu volubilis --- Tu, roda volúvel
status malus, --- És má,
vana salus --- Vã é a felicidade
semper dissolubilis, --- Sempre dissolúvel,
obumbrata --- Nebulosa
et velata --- E velada
michi quoque niteris;--- Também a mim contagias;
nunc per ludum --- Agora por brincadeira
dorsum nudum --- O dorso nu
fero tui sceleris. --- Entrego à tua perversidade.

Sors salutis --- A sorte na saúde
et virtutis --- E virtude
michi nunc contraria --- Agora me é contrária.
est affectus --- Dá
et defectus --- E tira
semper in angaria. --- Mantendo sempre escravizado
hac in hora --- Nesta hora
sine mora --- Sem demora
cordum pulsum tangite; --- Tange a corda vibrante;
quod per sortem --- Porque a sorte
sternit fortem, --- Abate o forte,
mecum omnes plangite! --- Chorai todos comigo!

2. Fortune plango vulnera

Fortune plango vulnera
stillantibus ocellis
quod sua michi munera
subtrahit rebellis.
Verum est, quod legitur,
fronte capillata,
sed plerumque sequitur
Occasio calvata.

In Fortune solio
sederam elatus,
prosperitatis vario
flore coronatus;
quicquid enim florui
felix et beatus,
nunc a summo corrui
gloria privatus.

Fortune rota volvitur:
descendo minoratus;
alter in altum tollitur;
nimis exaltatus
rex sedet in vertice -
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam.

English:
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first 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 is against me
in health
and virtue,
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!