Akira The Don - Thanks To The Gods lyrics

I had good grandparents
Good mother and father
A good sister, good teachers, good servants
Relatives, friends nearly everything good
And that I never lost control of
Myself with any of them
Although I had it in me to
Do that and I might have, easily
But thanks to the gods
I was never put in that position
And so I escaped the test
I was never put in that position
And so I escaped the test
That I wasn’t longer raised
By my granddad’s girlfriend
I didn’t lose my virginity too early
And didn’t enter adulthood until it was time
Hell, I put off

That I had someone as a ruler and father
Who could keep me from arrogance
To live in a palace without body guards
Without fancy dresses or torches or
Statues or such like show
That you can live much like a regular person
Not remiss in action or careless a ruler
When carrying out official obligations
That I had the kind of brother I did
One whose character challenged me
To improve my own
One whose love and affection
Enriched my whole life
That my children weren’t born
Stupid or physically deformed
That I wasn’t more talented
In rhetoric or poetry
They could have consumed me if
I had seen progress
I might never have given them up

That I conferred on the people
Who brought me up
The honors that they seemed to want early on
Instead of putting them off
Since they were still young
With the hope that I’d do it later
That I knew Apollonius and
Rusticus and Maximus
That I was shown clearly and often
What it would be like to
Live as nature requires

Thanks to the gods they did all they could
Through their gifts, their help
Their inspiration to ensure
That I could live as nature demands
Thanks to the gods, they did all they could
Through their gifts, their help
Their inspiration to ensure
That I could live as nature demands

And if I’ve failed
It’s no one’s fault but mine
Cause I didn't pay attention to
What they told me
To what they taught me, practically
Step by step that my body has held up for
So long through such a life
That I never laid a finger
On Benedicta or Theodotus
Even later I was overcome
By passion I recovered
Even though I often quarreled with Rusticus
I never did nothing that I regretted later
And though my mother died young
She spent her last years with me
And if I ever wished to help a man in need
I was never told that I had not the means
That I was never put in that position myself
Of having to take something
From somebody else
That I have the wife I do obedient, loving
Humble
That my children had competent teachers
For the remedies shown me in dream
When I was coughing blood
When my head was spinning (Spinning)
(Spinning)
When I had an inclination to philosophy
I didn’t fall into the hands of any Sophist
That I didn't waste my time
On writers of histories
Or in the resolution of syllogisms
Or occupy myself about the investigation
Of appearances in the heavens
For all these things require the help
Of the gods and fortune

Thanks to the gods they did all they could
Through their gifts, their help
Their inspiration to ensure
That I could live as nature demands
Thanks to the gods, they did all they could
Through their gifts, their help
Their inspiration to ensure
That I could live as nature demands