...well sort of. I don't think its actually an ad from the Superbowl... but it's it does have that Superbowl Ad sort of feel, and .. it is a big ad...
The music is Carmina Burana. This translation of the orginal lyrics says a lot about why I so like it:
O Fortune, variable as the moon, always dost thou wax and wane.
Detestable life, first dost thou mistreat us, and then, whimsically, thou heedest our desires. As the sun melts the ice, so dost thou dissolve both poverty and power.
Monstrous and empty fate, thou, turning wheel, art mean, voiding good health at thy will. Veiled in obscurity, thou dost attack me also. To thy cruel pleasure I bare my back. Thou dost withdraw my health and virtue; thou dost threaten my emotion and weakness with torture.
At this hour, therefore, let us pluck the strings without delay. Let us mourn together, for fate crushes the brave.
We are all slaves to fate after all... the control we imagine is really just an illusion. So while I may be a slave to fate, in the immortal words of Deadwood's Al Swearingen, I'm gonna 'Take it like a man'.
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