Tito Gobbi (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Alberto Erede - Credo in un Dio crudel (Otello, Act II) | Текст песни

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• Tito Gobbi (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Alberto Erede
• Credo in un Dio crudel (Otello, Act II)

I believe in a cruel God
who created me like himself
in anger of whom that I name.
From the cowardice of a seed
or of a vile atom I was born.
I am a son evil because I am a man;
and I feel the primitive mud in me.
Yes! This is my faith!
I believe with a firm heart,
so does the widow in the temple,
the evil I think
and proceeds from me,
fulfills my destiny.
I think the honest man
is a mockery,
in face and heart,
that everything is in him is a lie:
tears, kisses, looks,
sacrifices and honor.
And I think the man plays a game
of unjust fate
the seed of the cradle
the worm of the grave.
After all this foolishness comes death.
And then what? And then?
Death is Nothingness.
Heaven is an old wives' tale!