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    Cantata del Diablo → English translation

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Song of the Devil

In the name of the Devil and Belial,
Satan, Lucifer, Astaroth, and Jesus
 
Nightfall, eternal mist
To hide the light
Cold wasteland, broken and frozen
Tears of the heart
 
Dreaming the life which I watch die
In fear it is hard to live
Dreams of death, kept awake
Saint's conviction, the crime of faith
 
In the name of the only religion
We dictate the sentence and condemn you
To the pious purification
Of fire and pain
 
In the hands of God you must put
Your soul, your possessions and your sins
Accept Christ and commend him
Since soon you will give to him
 
Devil in Earth, the Lord has sent me
Devil in Earth, the Lord has sent me
 
I want to be the wind to run from myself
The path of silence mutes the terror
I do not want to die
 
I will invent myself another life
My dreams I will decorate
And I will cover them with your kisses -it thought-
Burn my soul as well!
 
Do you deny Satan of your work and your vices?
Of necromancy, magic and tarot?
I am the under the church and its principles
If you do not repent, your soul will be condemned
 
Today liberty has fallen asleep and silent
Today liberty has closed for death
Today liberty has died of pain and melancholy
Today there is no liberty, today God is not here nor will come here
 
I want to be forgotten, never to be remembered
I want to be the breeze, and caress life once more
How cold is the promise of another life with God
If he is or not heard from again, the bonfire is your coffin
 
Before death and the fire does what it should
Do you accept Christ, his church and his power?
Renounce to God, call to Nature?
Earth is only mother
Of sin and terror
 
Today liberty has fallen asleep and silent
Today liberty has closed for death
Today liberty has died of pain and melancholy
Today there is no liberty, today God is not here nor will come here
 
In the name of the Devil and Belial,
Satan, Lucifer, Astaroth, and Jesus
Earth, Earth
 
Today life rains hardship
Drops of desperation
My tears are rivers, veins
The heart is bleeding to death
 
The memory of a woman
Are the kisses which I recieve
In your lips I live
And in your oblivion I die
 
Today my tears want to commit suicide
Huddling to die on your skin
They are born dry and thirsty
Today my tears want to die
 
A promised kiss
Your soul is my voice
I am dead and alive
I am calm, and you are God
 
Close your eyes and I will take you
Where dreams become songs
Life hurts, I will heal you
Sleep and dream, I cradle you with my voice
 
Today my tears want to commit suicide
Huddling to die on your skin
They are born dry and thirsty
Today my tears want to die
 
If your tears want to commit suicide
Keep them because you will cry
Cry oceans of peace
Sleep, for there is no pain!
 
In the name of liberty
Belief in oneself and in peace
Burn the flags, not religion!
And your God is the song
Composed from the heart
And your country is where your feet take you
 
Devil in Earth, the Lord has sent me
Devil in Earth, the Lord has sent me
 
The Lord has sent me
The Devil has sent me
Satan has sent me
Earth
 
Now finally I am air
And my curse falls
The end of this church will come soon
My voice will awaken
 
Today liberty has fallen asleep and silent
Today liberty has closed for death
Today liberty has died of pain and melancholy
Today there is no liberty, today God is not here nor will come here
 
Today liberty has fallen asleep and silent
Today there is no liberty, today God is not here
Today God is not here, today God is not here nor will come!!!!
 
Our father, of all of us
Of the poor, the homeless
Of the outcast and disadvantaged
Of the disinherited and the owners of misery
Of those who follow you and those who don't believe
 
Below heaven, there is hell
Below your throne there are wars, hunger, injustice
There is no need to be one and triune
With one who wants to help, enough for us
 
What is your kingdom?
The Vatican?
The bank?
The political elite?
 
Our reign is Nigeria,
Ethiopia, Colombia, Hiroshima
Our daily bread is violation
Gender violence, paedophilia
Dictators, climate change
 
Every day I fall into temptation
No morning where you are not tempted to create a God
Humble, right
A God who is on Earth
In the valleys and rivers
A God who lives in the rain
Who travels through the wind and caresses our soul
 
A God of the sorrowful and the gay
A human God
A God who does not punish
Who teaches
A God who does not threaten, who protects
Who will lift me up if I fall
Who if I get lost, will give me his hand
A God who does not blame me for mistakes
And who understands if I have doubt
As for that, He gifts me intelligence
To doubt everything
 
Our father, of all of us
Why have we forgotten?
Our father, blind, deaf and empty
Why have we abandoned you?
 
Original lyrics

Cantata del Diablo

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Comments
BesatniasBesatnias
   Fri, 11/03/2016 - 00:36

Hey, thanks for translating this lovely super long song. You translate many parts better than I ever would, but I just want to highlight the absolute need for checking the verbs. You confuse many subjects with the objects, and in a case at least, the adjective with the noun (in Frío yermo, yermo is an adjective). In the second narrator entry, Life is the one that dreams. In that same strophe, it says 'desvélate'. That's imperative, not past participle. In 'santa condena', 'condena' is the noun, while 'santa' is the adjective.

And so on and so forth (it's too long for me to correct it all). You translation is riddled with those, so I'd really, really, appreciate it if you would please proofread it. :)

With love
- me

PS. Since I found your translation after I did mine, you can peek into my translation. If you see any issues in my translation, please don't hesitate to comment on them, and if you have any question, don't hesitate to ask. I always try to do my best in order to help everyone.

GLHF

staarchildstaarchild
   Tue, 22/03/2016 - 19:53

Thank you very much for your comment :) I am by no means a native or fluent speaker of spanish which i guess is obvious. I'm learning although i've been too busy lately so i feel i have a lot of revision to do. i hope one day that i can be proficient at spanish. gracias por la comment, i really need to brush up since it's been months since i last really studied. mi vida es muy dificil ahora >.

CemeteryGates23CemeteryGates23    Thu, 17/03/2016 - 07:39
3

Overall it carries the meaning of the song, but some lines are translated literally, with no sense of context, also some pronouns are off (in some cases inverted, for example). Can improve.

staarchildstaarchild
   Tue, 22/03/2016 - 19:47

Thank you for the constructive criticism. I am not a native speaker of spanish (obviously) but i am learning. Gracias :)

KoshkoiKoshkoi    Tue, 22/03/2016 - 20:18

¿Por qué nos has olvidado?=why have you forgotten us
¿Por qué nos has abandonado?=why have you abandoned us
Quisiera = I would like to
recibió= she received

If you do corrections of the verbs I´ll vote again and you´ll earn more stars! Good start!

KoshkoiKoshkoi    Wed, 23/03/2016 - 04:53
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Hard work done! The language flows beautifully. With corrected verbs is still better.

KoshkoiKoshkoi    Wed, 23/03/2016 - 05:02

You will have straight 5 stars immediately if the errors are corrected. A wonderful masterpiece- quality translation (even as I do not like the song itself)!!
And I hope your life has turned for the better as you mentioned difficulties! All the best to you!
And if you do not have the energy to edit this, it is ok! It is a finally only a song within a million other songs! Life is more important!
Greetings! Koshkoi

staarchildstaarchild
   Wed, 23/03/2016 - 13:17

thank you very much :) my life is still difficult but i hope things get better soon :) mucho gracias