Red - Intro (Canto III Innocence & Instinct) lyrics
[Red - Intro Canto III Innocence & Instinct lyrics]
"Through me the way is to the city of dolent
Through me the way is to eternal dole
Through me the way among the people lost
Justice incited my sublime Creator
Created me divine Omnipotence
The highest Wisdom, and the primal Love
Before me there were no created things
Only eterne, and I eternal last
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master
Hard to me!"
And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned
All cowardice must needs be here extinct
And I: "O Master, what is so grievous is
To these, that maketh them lament so sore"
He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly
These people have not any hope of death"
Through me the way is to eternal dole
Through me the way among the people lost
Justice incited my sublime Creator
Created me divine Omnipotence
The highest Wisdom, and the primal Love
Before me there were no created things
Only eterne, and I eternal last
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master
Hard to me!"
And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned
All cowardice must needs be here extinct
And I: "O Master, what is so grievous is
To these, that maketh them lament so sore"
He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly
These people have not any hope of death"