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L'Heautontimioroumenos

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Diamanda Galas Canonical path: /diamanda-galas/l-heautontimioroumenos Related lyric paths: 6
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L'Heautontimioroumenos

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Je te frapperai sans colère

Et sans haine, comme un boucher,

Comme Moïse le rocher

Et je ferai de ta paupière,

Pour abreuver mon Saharah

Jaillir les eaux de la souffrance.

Mon désir gonflé d'espérance

Sur tes pleurs salés nagera

Comme un vaisseau qui prend le large,

Et dans mon coeur qu'ils soûleront

Tes chers sanglots retentiront

Comme un tambour qui bat la charge!

Ne suis-je pas un faux accord

Dans la divine symphonie,

Grâce à la vorace Ironie

Qui me secoue et qui me mord

Elle est dans ma voix, la criarde!

C'est tout mon sang ce poison noir!

Je suis le sinistre miroir

Où la mégère se regarde.

Je suis la plaie et le couteau!

Je suis le soufflet et la joue!

Je suis les membres et la roue,

Et la victime et le bourreau!

Je suis de mon coeur le vampire,

- Un de ces grands abandonnés

Au rire éternel condamnés

Et qui ne peuvent plus sourire!

(translation:)

No rage, no rancor: I shall beat you

as butchers fell an ox,

as Moses smote the rock in Horeb-

I shall make you weep,

and by the waters of affliction

my desert will be slaked.

My desire, that hope has made monstrous,

will frolic in your tears

as a ship tosses on the ocean-

in my besotted heart

your adorable sobs will echo

like an ecstatic drum.

For I - am I not a dissonance

in the divine accord,

because of the greedy Irony

which infiltrates my soul?

I hear it in my voice - that shrillness,

that poison in my blood!

I am the sinister glass in which

the Fury sees herself!

I am the knife and the wound it deals,

I am the slap and the cheek,

I am the wheel and the broken limbs,

hangman and victim both!

I am the vampire at my own veins,

one of the great lost horde

doomed for the rest of my time, and beyond,

'to laugh - and smile no more'

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