"La mamma morta" from Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano
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"La mamma morta" from the opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano.

English Translation:

They killed my mother

at the door of my room

She died and saved me.

Later, at dead of night, I wandered with Bersi,

when suddenly a bright glow flickers and lights were ahead of me

the dark street!

I looked –

The home that cradled me was burning

I was alone!

surrounded by nothingness!

Hunger and misery

deprivation, danger!

I fell ill,

and Bersi, so good and pure

made a market of her beauty for me.

I bring sorrow to all who care for me!

It was then, in this grief, that love came to me.

A voice full of harmony says,

"You have to live,

I am life itself!

Your heaven is in my eyes.

You are not alone.

I will collect all your tears

I will walk with you and support you.

Smile!

Hope!

I am Love!

When everything around you is blood and mud...

I am Divine!

I am oblivion!

I am the God that comes down from the heaven to the earth

and makes of the earth a heaven! Ah!

I am love.

Love."