I think most people think this song is 'Sadness'. It is not. It's an anthology of songs about the Marquis de Sade. Hence the name. I have many of his writings, but that is because I collect books, and not because I align with his beliefs. Sade was a Libertine defined. He spent probably about half of his life in prison in France throughout the late 17th and early 18 centuries in prison because of certain things, and amongst those things, some of the books he wrote. One in particular was banned, burned, and put him away for 12 years. I read his writings because it is the insight into the mind of a freed libertine with no regret - not because he was a good writer - which he was not. He had the talent, and you can see it come out, but then he ruins it. There was an artist within him waiting to spill out, but perhaps it spilled out in his actions rather than his writings. Such was Sade, a tragedy in history as he was in literature, and now in song. Thank you. I do not agree with his extreme sexual libertinism, no, but his writings do expose the soul of someone who, though not well-written, show the soul of someone who at the time was not yet understood. That is what these songs are about.

As a Spanish native speaker (Latin and Spanish are similar) and having french as fourth language makes this even more fantastic.

When you understand this song you will then feel that dark history of sade at that era. Basically nobody is perfect and bounds to make mistakes. But, their mistakes let us the later generations learn what life and art is about. That why art itself is an art.

One of the most beautiful and influencial songs. Captivating! Eye opening! Truth!

This is the kind of music you feel in your soul. Maybe put the lights out and light candles and just feel it

I am a new Zealand Maori , I have no idea what the song meant language wise but my spirit feels every words in this song. From millions of miles away it still vibes the same. Peace especially at this time 2022 💕 🔥

Who knew a prayer could be so captivating, this is so beautiful. Thank you for the translation to better understand.

Jesus is lord of lords and the king of kings and the king of glory, glory be to God and thanks be to the lord of lords Jesus

Love this Music but lost it about 15year ago. After a very long time finally found this ...just wow.. Masterpiece

I agree I have tried to find this since I lost my tract in the 90's did my best at duplicating the words not knowing what I was saying until today! What revelation. God bless

Why are Latin songs so good? Even I don't understand them at all, but they hit different. 🙈

I love this song my siblings (we all don't understand french or latin) they think this is occultic chant and I'm so into it. With this interpretation I'm so slapping it on their faces. This is a captivating piece of art.

Amo esta canción Saludos desde México

🎶Hauntingly Beautiful🎶...🙏🏼

Evil will only prevail if good people do nothing

Enigma's songs have a way of connecting you for meditation.

I love that song, I usually listen to it from a very young age, it doesn't have offensive language, quite the opposite, intelligent lyrics that make you reconsider and beautiful music that leads you to relaxation.

I never knew the words all these years!! Thank you Mr Latin. 😊 INTENSE lyrics

Came here from an episode of Its always sunny in Philadelphia (Season 6 - the gang gets a new member) and thank god I came. This is amazing

Marquis De Sade was a degenerate, I was a degenerate too, but I got saved by the Holy Spirit and now am Catholic, servant of the Lord. I like this song, it's beautiful, especially the Gregorian chants are great, but also the voice of the singer Sandra Cretu and the arrangements. Best part is when they shout "HOSANNA" - it is praise to God and means ""a special honor to the one who saves." Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! -Matthew 21:9

Thank you so much for the translation, 😇🙏💖🤗

I've always loved this song,music but now knowing the lyrics has brought a whole new life and meaning to this brilliant song.thanks so much this upload.

that shakuhachi flute is off the chain though. Gonna learn this

King of glory “ christi " ✝️

I wasn't into dance music after the mid 80'd but I loved a lot of Enigma's' Music especially for the incorporation of Gregorian Chant and the music also sound like a lot of the New Age Music I started getting into at the time.

I haven’t heard this song in years

I grew up with this music in kolkata ,like sadness,Mea culpa ,Rivers of belief but neve knew what it meant ? Thanks for the translation . Sadness is immortal but within the song best part starts at 5:01. This tune kills.

Business partner hooked me up this great group if u can't feel the vibes in there music then u don't know good music

This Song ist very beautiful and Emotion i feel Jesus all me Heart ❤

O que mais me encanta nesta canção é a interação entre as línguas de origem latina !!!

Really beautiful, this is a great masterpiece,than you so much!!!!!

Remember listening to this song when I was a kid, it really took my attention and I really like it, but what I never expected is to listen it into the Dahmer series, mann the made it more unforgettable !!

Great song, Great memories and the album was unique as well and worth listening too.

how many people I wonder are out there walking around who were conceived to this song?

Searching for the song since childhood❤️

I had no idea this song was about the Marquis de Sade or even who he was way back when. Evil dude. Thank you for the translation. I’m still gonna like this song regardless. I wanna say that Sade can kiss my ass, but he’d like that if he was still alive.

I always imagine driving around Rome late at night when I'm listening to this💙🌌

my mom had this on a tape and I was very young to understand anything of it and I was looking for it for years !

Me ubiera guistado haber vivido en esa época para hablaur Latín se mei hace un idioma muy místico., y espiritual 🙏🏻love it ❤️ I would have liked to live in that era to speak Latin, I have a very spiritual and mystical language.🙏🏻❤️

Música top demais!!! Mais que música melodia para alma!!!!

After hearing this song i realized how the devil uses soothing music to attract people This song invokes The Name of God to commit evil May The Lord open the eyes of the Listeners Lord have Mercy Upon your People

who ever comes in many music but still no one like this - unbeatable

So good song my dad introduced me to this

So very BEAUTIFUL…..Enigma Music 🎶 is ABSOLUTELY 💯 Gloria’s…..

It's wonderful

excellent song love it

Goosebumps

Such a great masterpiece ❤

Wow just heard this today haven’t heard it since I was a child

My favorite song# thank brother ....

It's so beautiful

Thanks so much for the English translation, 👍

Thanks for the sharing ❤️

Love it👍👍👍👍👍

This is one of favourite prayer songs..

Very beautiful song

C'était la chonson préfère de ma grand-mère rabi yarhamha 😢

Haunting...Hypnotic...and absolute Magic... I love all sorts of music but NOTHING comes close to this.. This song bares it's weight... It's heavy and uplifting at the same time.. #my2cents

Heartfelt prayer

Even without the words I love their music but listening and trying to figure out the lyrics is fun but I always have to look them up and maybe learn a few little bit of French at the same time

Bless you🙏

This Is Song is Very peace masterpiece all cute when i feel ti ma Heart ❤️

Thank you

Everytime I hear this song I always expect to hear somebody say "...from 20th century fox..." All my favorite movie trailers when I was a kid used this song lol

🇲🇪 Sviće ,sviće tek što nije 🇲🇪

! Maravillosa!.❤❤❤❤❤

Wow 🙏‼️

I MISS MY OLDER BROTHER RICO....SUPER SMART...SIX DIFERENTES LENGUAJES.......MY ROLE MODEL....

Спасибо за текст

I really think this song, and many of Enigma's songs are about the conflict between the physical (body, sexuality, corporeal) and the spiritual (meaning of life, spiritual evolution, values and morals). This is immediately made clear in the music itself - the contrast between the ethereality of much of the spiritual/religious music such as Gregorian chants and others that they sample, with their grinding, techno, primitive and sexy beats. In my opinion, Enigma is not at all Christian in their theology - they offer absolutely no solutions, but only bring the ideas into question. Enigma uses religious music from many different cultures including Christianity, Islam, Hindu, and native peoples, etc. which suggest they are much more easily classified as New Age - a belief that all religions share common spiritual beliefs, but there is no true theology or discipline behind New Age: it is based on personal exploration and it is "situation-specific." If you were to listen to all of Enigma's music, some of it is explicitly New Age, especially the concept behind the name of one of their albums, The Screen Behind the Mirror." The Marquis de Sade may be the writer who others later used as a historical figure in the term sadism or the practice and beliefs of sado-masochism, but contemporary sado-masochism is entirely different than what the Marquis described or practiced. I see this song as clearly playing with (not coming to any conclusions about) the idea of sadism as a sexual/spiritual practice - it believes there is a spiritual release into Oneness, through the techniques of domination of submission through sexual practices that include pain and humiliation. Practitioners describe a religious ecstasy when certain thresholds are crossed. The Marquis de Sade is referred to as a representative of the practice of sado-masochism. In a sense, the questioner is conflicted between her Christian beliefs that sex, domination, submission, pain and humiliation are evil, while she herself is tempted by them, or perhaps has experienced them. She asks: Sade, tell me Sade, give it to me ("give it to me" is a sexual reference) Let us come in peace (a play on the word "come") In the name of Christ, Amen (a teasing sacrilegious reference in this context). Sado-masochism is a paradox, because it promotes a powerful pleasure to its practitioners, and a type of spiritual experience that feels "divine" while using techniques that are generally considered evil. Ironically, some interpretations of Christianity, particularly as practiced the Medieval era, promoted submission and domination by the Catholic Church, including self-flagellation and the punishment of the body (the corporeal) to achieve the incorporeal (spiritual awakening).

I am an Indian but deeply I love this song while I am unable to understand lyrics

Svice svice tek sto nije.

Eu gosto desde os anos 90

5:00 Ohh... The piano.

Sade was just a man, Fighting his demons.c Ephesians 6:11-12 Shalom

Obra prima

Es como escuchar un coro de ángeles. La canción en latin está basada en un texto de la Biblia más exactamente el Salmo 24:7 que dice: Alzad, oh puertas, vuestras cabezas, Y alzaos vosotras, puertas eternas, Y entrará el Rey de gloria. ¿Quién es este Rey de gloria? Jehová el fuerte y valiente, Jehová el poderoso en batalla. Alzad, oh puertas, vuestras cabezas, Y alzaos vosotras, puertas eternas, Y entrará el Rey de gloria. ¿Quién es este Rey de gloria? Jehová de los ejércitos, ÉL es el Rey de la gloria. Selah

Okay so I guess it made sense for Perry to leave the monastery in the brothers Grunt cartoon with this song playing.

Nice to know what the song is going about

I look high and low for dis song I'm happy I find it

nice song

Amen

Very good

Khool Houwa alahou Ahad alahou samad Lam yalid walam youlad walam yakoun laho kouf an ahad

This song and other's like it! on the soundtrack .....Boxing Helena! ;) I believe you can watch the movie on youtube!

Sade es-tu diabolique ou divin?....Rex Glorie.

I would honestly love to see this song be played in cathedrals and churches all over the world 💯🙏💪👍🤙👌👉👏🙌

Es como una oda al dios de la lujuria. Genial.

La meuilleure sere cjanson

Kirk Lazarus should have won his 6th Academy Award for his performance in Satan’s Alley

When i was a boy at the cathic church we had to know the responces in latten so the words are known i feel good hearing it

Now i know what this is about, after so many years...lol

My dad tought me all about enigmas music in 2 of their songs this being one

Somehow, knowing the actual lyrics, and their translations does not make this song any less sexy.

This song sounds creepy except the bass

Like seeing patterns in the skies diamonds shapes bad weather's, to come and checkers?

I get emotional thinking about the 90's

Do Yu guys remember like a deep voice over, on this song and he said "the rhythm" and then the flute plays along the lines

Todavía me da miedo cuando escucho esta obra maestra ....

Can someone please tell me the notes of piano at 5:01??