EST-CE AINSI QUE LES HOMMES VIVENT
Raymondin tue accidentellement son oncle
Raymondin accidentally kills his uncle
Everything depends on the scenery
Changing beds, changing bodies
What’s the point, since I betray myself again
I drag myself and scatter myself
And my shadow undresses itself in the similar arms of women in whom I thought I found a country
Light heart, changing heart, heavy heart
The time for dreaming is very short
What should I do with my days?
What should I do with my nights?
I had no love, no home
No place to live or die
I passed through like a rumor
I fell asleep like noise
Is this the way men live?
And their kisses follow them in the distance
It was an unreasonable time
We gave the dead a seat at the table
We made sandcastles
We mistook wolves for dogs
Everything changed poles and shoulders
The play, was it funny or not?
If I didn’t fulfill my role
It was because I didn’t understand anything
In the Hohenzollern neighborhood
Between the Saar river and the barracks
Like Lucerne flowers,
The breasts of Lola blossomed
She had the complexion of a swallow
On the sofa of the brothel
We used to lie down beside her
In the hiccups of the player piano
Is this the way men live?
And their kisses follow them in the distance
The sky was gray with clouds
Wild geese were flying
And screaming ‘death’ as they passed
Above the houses of the docks
I saw them from my window
Their sad song entered my being
And I thought I recognized in it
Some Rainer Maria Rilke
She was dark and yet pale
Her hair fell to her hips
And during the week and on Sundays
She opened her naked arms to everyone
She had earthenware eyes
She worked with valiance
For a gunner from Mainz
Who never came back to her
Is this the way men live?
And their kisses follow them in the distance
There are other soldiers in this city
And at night the civilians come up.
Put some mascara back on
Melusine, you will be leaving soon.
Another glass of liqueur
It was in April at 5am
In the wee hours
That a dragon plunged his knife
Into your heart
LA ROUTE ENCHANTÉE
Raymondin erre dans la forêt, aveuglé par la douleur.
Raymondin wanders in the forest, blind with grief
The sky is full of joy
The night is fragrant
Ah! What a subtle perfume
The scent of wood fire
The sweet scent of smoke
The scent of the month of April
It feels like there’s a celebration coming
The beautiful celebration of Spring
Which blossoms above our heads
The April sky
And the fields
One star told me
Two stars told me
Do you know the land of dreams
The land of love
Where, beneath the blue sky
Everything is joyful?
Good days are short
In the land of love
And nights are brief
But we live our life
Far from any worry
Come tonight
Come, it’s a mystery!
Whatever you desire, there it is!
Come, forget the Earth
Come, come with me and you will see
Joyful mornings
And grand paths
Where we walk towards adventure
Winter and summer
Always in nature
The enchanted path!
River, my friend
I’m singing to you
And you, little birds, listen to me
Pigs, cows, and calves,
And you, the mean beasts
Who howl in the night
Tomorrow we will love one another other
And those who sow love, reap love
Love is the most beautiful poem
Why not love each other forever?
One star told
Two stars told me
Sing love in the moonlight
Sing without a penny
Sing like a madman
Everywhere
Youth is here, opening to its arms to you
The sun is our fortune
If you live your life
Far from any worry
Come tonight
Go, it’s a mystery
Whatever you want, there it is!
Go, forget the Earth
Come, come with me and you will see
Joyful mornings and grand paths
Where we walk towards adventure
Winter and summer
Always in nature
The Enchanted Path
IL M’A VUE NUE
A minuit il croise 3 femmes qui se baignent dans la fontaine de la soif.
At midnight, he crosses paths with three women who bathe in the fountain of thirst.
One evening I was taking a dip
My bathing suit was my skin
No one could see me, but the dark sky
The moon suddenly exhibited herself
I told her “shut up baby”
When I heard near me an excited shout
There was man on a rock, not high enough
The man said “ah” and I in the water says “ohhhh”
He saw me naked, completely naked
No under-thing or bra
I blushed down to my pelvis
He saw me naked, so naked
I wanted out of human dignity
To cover my face with my hands
But I believe
That by this thoughtless gesture
I neglected to cover some parts
He saw me naked, completely naked
More than naked
He saw me naked, completely naked
I want to forget what happened
Especially since nothing was broken
But I have told myself since that fatal night
I cannot marry any man but him
He saw me naked, so naked
Super naked
DITES MOI QUE JE SUIS BELLE
Mélusine lui sourit et vient lui parler. Elle lui promet bonheur et prospérité s’il consent à l’épouser.
Melusine smiles and asks him if he thinks she’s beautiful, she promises him happiness and prosperity if he marries her.
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Am I, am I, am I, am I beautiful?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Am I, am I, am I, am I beautiful? Me?
It seems, in my opinion,
That I have pretty features and a soft face
And a vermillion mouth
I have green eyes and thin eyebrows
Blond hair, and a straight nose
A white chin and white throat
I have fur coats
Expensive embroidered dresses
And hair that matches my makeup and clothes
DOUDOU
A condition de ne jamais la voir le samedi
On the condition that he never see her on Saturdays
Close your eyes my sweet darling
Beautiful darling
Too beautiful for me
Open your mouth to tell me sweet words
Darling come into my arms
And stay there
But I see you are tired, bored
You disdain my kisses
Close your mouth my darling love
Darling I know
I was waiting for it
Capturing a fickle heart is not possessing it
Darling you will leave me
Alas
Darling, go ahead
Go, but know that I wait for you and sing
PETITE MUSIQUE TERRIENNE
Melusine enfante dix garçons, grands, forts, la plupart avec une particularité physique
Melusine gives birth to ten boys, tall and strong, but most of them with something physically peculiar about them
There is no future on Earth
Something is wrong in the solar system
Is there anyone in the universe
Who can answer our questions,
Our prayers?
Who will tell us
What we’re doing here
In this world which doesn’t look like us?
MELUSINE
Pourquoi Mélusine s’enferme-t-elle tous les samedis ?
Why does Mélusine lock herself away on Saturdays?
Raymondin’s brother convinces him to spy on her. He takes his sword and begins piercing a hole in the iron door of Mélusine’s chambers.
I have fallen deep in love with you
True you are, midnight blue you are
My solitude
Sometimes you wander
But when you go
You always return
I always know where to find you
When I close my eyes
I find you
How does the thorny devil drink the dew
From the sand
Where it never rains?
A skin with grooves
That gathers water
Between the grains
A skin that’s pulling
Against the pull of the earth
In a barren land
We make do
He saw Mélusine in her tub
Above her navel she looked like a woman
Brushing her hair
Below her navel
Her snake’s tail
With which she beat water
That she splashed onto the ceiling
D’UN FEU SECRET
Il s’aperçoit que le corps gracieux de Mélusine se termine par une énorme queue de serpent,) et la surprend dans son bain peignant ses longs cheveux blonds.
He sees her bathing in her tub, brushing her hair, and beating the water with her enormous snake’s tail.
By a secret a fire
I feel myself
I feel myself being consumed
Without being able to relieve the pain that possesses me
I could be cured
If I stopped loving
But I prefer the disease to the remedy
When I die, will they be able to blame me?
The one who begins to love, should he not pursue?
When they know, Melusine,
That I have stopped loving
They will surely know, that I have stopped living
LE TEMPS EST ASSASSIN
Mélusine realizes he is spying on her and turns into a dragon.
Sometimes I feel the mystery
Of all the things I don’t understand
As if I were alone on Earth, searching for an ideal
When the greatest love in the world
Is struggling at the end
This is true misery
Time is an assassin
And I don’t want anything
I don’t want anything
I don’t want love anymore, even a rebellious one
I don’t want love anymore,
Even if I was the one, tender and cruel,
Who looked at my lovers wither
Back when I was beautiful
I don’t want love sir
I burned my masters
And I’m afraid to be in love
For I have seen, dark and cruel,
Wonderful dream makers
Wither and die from disappointed tenderness
When I see all the anger
That we have to take on and endure
For me, love is like hell
I say that it’s strength is in its dregs
And I could do and redo everything
I will be alone and without any landmarks
For me that is what real misery is
I say that time is an assassin
And I don’t want anything
I don’t want anything at all
I don’t want love anymore
Even a faithful one
I don’t want love anymore, even if I was the one
Who looked on, tender and cruel,
At my lovers wither
Back when I was beautiful
I don’t want any love sir
I have burned my masters
And I am afraid to be in love
Because I have seen, dark and cruel,
Those wonderful dream makers
Wither and die from disappointed tenderness
FENESTRA
Elle s’envole par la fenêtre
She flies out the window
Melusine, this is her story
Aida Wedo, the window
Her image is only the half of it
Mother, Melusine, Aida Wedo
Enoch
Apocrypha 19
Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
Mother
Melusine
Aida Wedo
I needed you so badly
I wanted to cry in your arms
But you didn’t want me to
Did you even look at me once
When I cried into my suitcase
On Rue de l’Opera
He spied on her
Through the hole
That he made
With his sword
In the iron door
Of his wife
His gaze
Scopophilic
Destructive
Like his sword
In the iron heart
Of his wife
He spied on her
Through th whole
That he made
With his sword
In the fairy heart
Of his wife
Suddenly
Transformed into a dragon
She flew away
Out the window
DAME ISEUT
If I knew that he repented
For his great wrongs against me
It would be just that I have mercy on him
But he does not want to recognize his transgressions
And I cannot pity him
But if you lead him to repentance
You can convert me