La mamma morta [English translation]

The dead mother they have (brought)

at my room door;

She was dying and she saved me!

Then, in the night

I was wandering with Bersi

When all of a sudden

A livid glare flashed

and enlighted before my steps

the dark alley!

I looked!

The house I grew up in was burning!

So I became alone!

The void around me!

Hunger and misery!

The need, the danger!

I fell sick,

and Bersi, kind and pure,

used her beauty to market,

a contract for me!

I bring bad luck to those who love me!

And it was in that pain

that love came to me!

A harmonious voice, and it says:

"Live once again! I am life!

In my eyes and in your sky!

You're not alone!

I will gather up your tears!

I'm on your path and I'll uphold you!

Smile and hope! I am Love!

All around is blood and mud?

I am divine, I am oblivion!

I am God who reigns the world

I come down from the Empyrean

Make the earth a sky! 1 Ah!

I am Love, I am Love, Love"

And the angel pulls over, kisses,

and he kisses the death!

Dying body and my own body.

Therefore, take it.

I am already a dead thing!

1. paradise

• Artist:Maria Callas