Smisurata preghiera Lyrics in English Fabrizio De André

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Smisurata preghiera by Fabrizio De André from Italian to English.
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Alta sui naufragi
High on shipwrecks
Dai belvedere delle torri
From the lookouts of the towers
China e distante sugli elementi del disastro
China and distant on the elements of the disaster
Dalle cose che accadono al disopra delle parole
From things that happen above words
Celebrative del nulla
Celebratives of Nothingness
Lungo un facile vento
Along an easy wind
Di sazietà di impunità
Satiety of impunity
Sullo scandalo metallico
On the metal scandal
Di armi in uso e in disuso
Of weapons in use and in disuse
A guidare la colonna
Leading the column
Di dolore e di fumo
Of pain and smoke
Che lascia le infinite battaglie al calar della sera
That leaves the endless battles at nightfall
La maggioranza sta la maggioranza sta
The majority is the majority is
Recitando un rosario
Reciting a rosary
Di ambizioni meschine
Of mean ambitions
Di millenarie paure
Of millennial fears
Di inesauribili astuzie
Of inexhaustible cunning
Coltivando tranquilla
Cultivating peacefully
L'orribile varietà
The Horrible Variety
Delle proprie superbie
Of your own superbie
La maggioranza sta
The majority is
Come una malattia
Like a disease
Come una sfortuna
Like bad luck
Come un'anestesia
Like anesthesia
Come un'abitudine
As a habit
Per chi viaggia in direzione ostinata e contraria
For those who travel in a stubborn and contrary direction
Col suo marchio speciale di speciale disperazione
With its special mark of special despair
E tra il vomito dei respinti muove gli ultimi passi
And amid the vomiting of the rejected moves the last steps
Per consegnare alla morte una goccia di splendore
To deliver to death a drop of splendor
Di umanità di verità
Of humanity of truth
Per chi ad aqaba curò la lebbra con uno scettro posticcio
For those who took care of the leprosy with a postman sceptre
E seminò il suo passaggio di gelosie devastatrici e di figli
And he soosed his passage of ravaging jealousies and children
Con improbabili nomi di cantanti di tango
With unlikely names of tango singers
In un vasto programma di eternità
In a vast program of eternity
Ricorda signore questi servi disobbedienti
Remember sir these disobedient servants
Alle leggi del branco
To the laws of the herd
Non dimenticare il loro volto
Don't forget their face
Che dopo tanto sbandare
That after so much straying
È appena giusto che la fortuna li aiuti
It's just right that luck helps them
Come una svista
Like an oversight
Come un'anomalia
Like an anomaly
Come una distrazione
As a distraction
Come un dovere
As a duty
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