Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)

O fortune
Like the moon
You are changeable
Ever waxing
And waning
Hateful life
Now hard
And then soft
The sharpness of the mind
The poverty
The power
It melts them like ice

Fate monstrous
And empty
You whirling wheel
You are malevolent
Well-being is vain
Always dissolves into nothing
Shadowed
And veiled
You plague me too
Now through the game
My bare back
I bear your villainy

Ever waxing
And waning
Hateful life
Now hard
And then soft
The sharpness of the mind
The poverty
The power
It melts them like ice

Fate monstrous
And empty
You whirling wheel
You are malevolent
Well-being is vain
Always dissolves into nothing
Shadowed
And veiled
You plague me too
Now through the game
My bare back
I bear your villainy

The luck of health
And virtue
Now is against me
Driven on
And weighted down
Always enslaved
So at this hour
Without delay
Pluck the vibrating strings
Since through fate
The strong man
Is struck down
Everyone weep with me!