Romania Anthem Text Lyrics - National Anthem

"Awaken Thee, Romanian!" 

Awaken thee, Romanian, from that deathly sleep 

Into which you've been sunken by the barbarian tyrants. 

Now or never sew yourself another fate 

To whom even your cruel enemies may bow to. 

Now or never, let us give proof to the world 

That in these hands of ours roman blood still flows 

And that in our chests we proudly keep a name 

Triumphant in battles, a name of "Trajan". 

Look, majestic shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus: 

The Romanian nation, your grand-grandsons 

With armed hands and your fire in their veins 

"A life of freedom or death", they all shout. 

Priests with the cross ahead, because the army is christian 

The motto is freedom and it's purpose is all too holy 

We'd rather die in battle, in elevated glory 

Than be slaves once more on our ancestral land.