Lamento di Tristano - Grupo Cinco Siglos

Lamento di Tristano (XIVè siècle)
Lamento et rotta

par l'ensemble Grupo Cinco Siglos

Category:

Music

Tags:

• musique
• italienne
• médiévale
• Lamento
• di
• Tristano

[OstrogothRome]

An empty town, deep in the Arabian Desert dust,

Its sand filled streets once full of love and hate, of deep romance and shallow greed,

Streets once full of sound, now mute witness to what might have been,

The money changers now all are gone, but time’s changes carry on regardless,

Love’s serenades no longer fill its lanes, but the desert sands whistle on forever

[OstrogothRome]

Years pass, and people come once more, but not to sell and not to buy,

Not to give but only take, to take from empty streets and fallen houses,

Travellers come to stare at empty places, their uses long forgotten,

But as you pass and stare as well, so ponder this,

Will those travellers come again one day,

And gaze this way upon your city too?