In the Midway of Life's Journey

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
Che la diritta vie era smarrita

Ahí quanto a dir qual era e cosa dura
Esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
Che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant'e amara che poco e giu morte
Ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi trovai
Diro de l'altre cose ch'i v ho scorte

So bitter tis like death's shade
Even the air seems afraid
The right way I did not keep
And lost myself half asleep
Lust and pride have left their trace
By greed I lived in disgrace
The beast pushed me without rest
To where sunlight is repressed

In all my thoughts I suffer and cry
Into the dark wood with sin inside

On that dire night so anguished
With terror my soul was kissed
When in the wilderness, lo!
By my side: Virgil's shadow
All poets' glory and light
Guide me from this dreadful plight
That the living can't depart
And makes tremble blood and heart

In all my thoughts I suffer and cry
Into the dark wood with sin inside

In the midway of life's journey
To cross hell it was time
And just to remember
Recalls the fear to mind
In the midway of life's journey

In the midway of life's journey
To cross hell it was time
And just to remember

In the midway of life's journey
To cross hell it was time
And just to remember

Just to remember
Just to remember
Recalls the fear to mind
In the midway of life's journey