Poetry

Miserere   -   Misery



Misery, misery,
misery, miserable me,
but I toast life!

But what a mystery my life is, what a mystery!
I am a sinner from the year eighty thousand, a liar!
But where am I and what am I doing, how do I live?
I live in the soul of the world lost in the depths of life!

Misery, miserable me, but I toast life!

I am the saint who betrayed you when you were alone.
I live elsewhere and observe the world from the sky
and I see the sea and the forests, I see myself…
I live in the soul of the world lost in the depths of life!

Misery, miserable me, but I toast life!

If there is a night dark enough to hide me, hide me,
if there is a light, a hope, magnificent sun that shines inside
me, give me the joy to live that is not yet there.

Misery, misery,
that joy to live
that perhaps
is not yet there.

Andrea Bocelli ©
written by Bono, Zucchero