Top Secret (1984) Monk's Prayer

Top Secret (1984) by ZAZ

Monk's Prayer while escorting Nick Rivers to his execution:

In nomine patris, spiritus morbosus, dios madre nepotes, omnia Gallia est divisa in partes tres, corpus delicti duros, qui pro quo, veni vidi vici, ipso facto, habemus papam, resistentia te salutant, cammina de pari passu dietro ammè, non ripetangere non ripetigere non m’interumpere. E dai e vai e vai e su e giù e su e ancora giù, più su, et tempus fugit, caveat tempora, coitus interruptus, urges sanguis, sanguisug…pro mulier…che cazzus dicus, amen


In the name of father, sick spirit, nephew of god’s mother (distorted from “madre des dios” literally means Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus) , every Gallia is divided in three parts, durable body of the crime (Law term meaning Substantial Proof of the crime), something for something (also a name of a movie), I come, I saw, I conquered (Famous saying by J. Caesar), by the fact that, we have a new pope (This phrase is used to announce the public by the highest ranking cardinal when a new pope is elected), people resisting are saluting you (The original is : the dieing is saluting you. Here "you" means the god. Again a distorted Latin phrase ). The walking with equal steps is at my back, not repeating , repating and interrupting myself.(?? Very broken Italian including some gibberish must mean something like that). And so (it is also a bit distorted the original phrase is “ma dai” meaning “come on; please”) and went and went and up and down (“su e giu” is also a name of an Italian TV program) and finally here, further up, and time flies, suspension of times ( again a distorted version of “caveat emptor” – a law term meaning let the buyer beware), sexual intercourse where the penis is withdrawn before ejaculation, incites blood, blood … for woman... what the fuck (literally “what cock you’re telling” in italian but added -us at the end of Italian words to make it sound more like Latin ) amen.



Translation by Flacido Domingo