Текст и перевод песни Corvus Corax feat. Ingeborg Schöpf & Klaus Lothar Peters - Veritas Simplex

Veritas Simplex

Nec potentum didici
Vitiis applaudere
Nec facorem querere
Corde loquens duplici.
Veritate simplici
Semper uti soleo,
Dari famam doleo
Cuiquam preter merita.
Ergo procul exsules,
Si mentiri dubitas!
Simplex enim veritas
Multos fecit exsules.
Cole nostros presules
Mollibus blanditiis
Nec insultans vitiis
Verbis hos exasperes,
Horum si
Frui beneficiis.
Vade retro, Satana,
Tuas tolle fabulas!
Amara tanta tyri pastos sycalos sycaliri
Ellivoli scarras polili posylique lyvarras

The Simple Truth

I have never learnt
To applaud the vices
Of the powerful ones
Or to seek favor
With double-tongued speech.
I am accustomed
To use simple truth always,
I regret to give fame
To anyone undeservedly.
Therefore get thee gone,
If thou art afraid to lie!
For simple truth
Has made many exiles.
Cajole our leaders
With soft flattery
And do not provoke them
With words that condemn their vices,
If thou
Wilt enjoy their benefits.
Get thee behind me, Satan,
Take away thy tales!
So many fig-trees fed with manure by tyrants