The Litanies of Satan versuri
Ghizela Rowe feat. Richard Mitchley
The Litanies of Satan lyrics by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
O you, the most knowing, and loveliest of Angels
A god fate betrayed, deprived of praises
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
O, Prince of exile to whom wrong has been done
Who, vanquished, always recovers more strongly
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who know everything, king of the underworld
The familiar healer of human distress
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who teach even lepers, accursed pariahs
Through love itself the taste for Paradise
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
O you who on Death, your ancient true lover
Engendered Hope – that lunatic charmer!
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who grant the condemned that calm, proud look
That damns a whole people crowding the scaffold
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who know in what corners of envious countries
A jealous God hid those stones that are precious
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You whose clear eye knows the deep caches
Where, buried, the race of metals slumbers
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You whose huge hands hide the precipice
From the sleepwalker on the sky-scraper’s cliff
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who make magically supple the bones
Of the drunkard, out late, who’s trampled by horses
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who taught us to mix saltpetre with sulphur
To console the frail human being who suffers
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who set your mark, o subtle accomplice
On the forehead of Croesus, the vile and pitiless
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who set in the hearts and eyes of young girls
The cult of the wound, adoration of rags
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
The exile’s staff, the light of invention
Confessor to those to be hanged, to conspirators
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
Father, adopting those whom God the Father
Drove in dark anger from the earthly paradise
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
