The clock strikes midnight under the black sky And in the silence, the birds are sleeping The clock strikes midnight in my cell The bells interrupt my slumber Lord of Heaven Have mercy on me Locked away in this cell I humbly offer myself to you At the tower's summit, behind lock and key The darkness of my cold cell devours me At the tower's summit, behind lock and key Chained to the corner, forsaken and forlorn Lord of Heaven Have mercy on me Locked away in this cell I humbly offer myself to you Suddenly men came for me And took me to the warden They set me before the warden He gazed at me and asked "My handsome young man, What is your sentence?" "Although I am innocent, My sentence is life" And I responded, "My life is agony And the suffering I've endured here Only my cell knows"
There is no blood here but plenty of honor. The song is called "Song of the Convict" and i think there is a lot of symbolism woven in it, it's not very clear what is being alluded to, there is a lot of code language and unspoken messages in the Honored Society and among Men of Honor. If there is danger in speaking about a certain thing, a metafor might be used or perhaps a nonsensical phrase that translates only to an intelligent or initiated person. The lyrics tell a song of a man who wakes in his dark cell at midnight and prays God for mercy. He sings that the birds sleep in silence (meaning perhaps fellow prisoners who have snitched aka "singing birds" are able to sleep unaware of their danger) and while he sits there wasting away in silence he thinks of someone on the outside who is perishing because of his suffering (maybe a lover, maybe an enemy or informer that his firends have taken revenge on for him). He sings more of the pointy tower he's being kept prisoner in and suddenly one day he is called to a meeting with the warden who asks him what his sentence is. The man answers he was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison and the warden says to him "Sciagurata vita" (such miserable life) and it's unclear exactly what he means next but the words are "with the pains i've endured in here, i leave my cell" which makes me think the warden had him executed or even set him free. Perhaps because there was a payoff, perhaps the convicted man had enough and took his life. Perhaps it's just the convict daydreaming of having the wrong he was done righted because of all the suffering he has endured already. Perhaps the warden is God himself, perhaps this convict isn't in the hands of the law but in the hands of his sworn elders in the Society and he's been on trial for having made a mistake or has been suspected of "singing". It might as well be a mental prison, he sits in fear of the judgment and he was innocent because an honourable man is a mute, while people he knows are informants sleep comfortably. His honor is such that he doesn't even rat his friends out, nor will he speak ill of another man of honor.
Naja, Mafia-Musik zu hören ist zwar nicht politisch korrekt, aber es ist echt gute Musik und nicht der sonstige Kitsch...und zum Glück kann ich kaum Italienisch, so daß ich die Texte, die wahrscheinlich von Blut und Ehre handeln, nicht verstehe...
visto che scrivi in tedesco ti rispondo in italiano. Anche se parlassi italiano molto probabilmente un tipo come te non capirebbe comunque cosa sta cantando.
