La nuit descend
La nuit descend
On y pressent
Un long destin de sang
poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Destin
Music :rudolf schenker
Lyrics:klaus meine
Do you say a prayer when your feeling down
Do you believe that love can turn your faith around
Youre feeling high and low, but you dont know what to think
The world is full of saints who live their lives in sin
Dont ask the mirror ball you better ask yourself
I think you know the answers but maybe you cant tell
Youll see it all so clear just take a look inside
The judge you build inside your heart will always be your guide
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Another day goes by and so does your life
You try to make some sense before your time to die
If you feel humility for something that is true
Youll find the secrets of this life deep inside of you
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
The innocent wont feel the judgement day
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
The innocent wont feel the judgement day
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
Mon destin inscrit en toi
The innocent wont feel the judgement day
song performed by by Scorpions
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The Poet's Song
I HID in the world and sang,
And I sang so loud and long
That all the ages rang
With the music of my song.
I sang of the earth and sky,
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I sang of the whispering seas,
I sang of the mountains high,
And I sang of the flowers and trees;
I sang of the early spring,
I sang of the dawning day,
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I sang, for I had to sing
As the young lambs have to play;
Till heaven and earth were ringing,
And all the people heard,
And they said, "We love his singing,
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For his song is the song of the bird."
poem by Frederick George Scott
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Bêtise de la guerre
Ouvrière sans yeux, Pénélope imbécile,
Berceuse du chaos où le néant oscille,
Guerre, ô guerre occupée au choc des escadrons,
Toute pleine du bruit furieux des clairons,
Ô buveuse de sang, qui, farouche, flétrie,
Hideuse, entraîne l'homme en cette ivrognerie,
Nuée où le destin se déforme, où Dieu fuit,
Où flotte une clarté plus noire que la nuit,
Folle immense, de vent et de foudres armée,
A quoi sers-tu, géante, à quoi sers-tu, fumée,
Si tes écroulements reconstruisent le mal,
Si pour le bestial tu chasses l'animal,
Si tu ne sais, dans l'ombre où ton hasard se vautre,
Défaire un empereur que pour en faire un autre ?
poem by Victor Hugo
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L'assassin
Chaque matin quand je me lève
Une femme se dresse devant moi
Elle ressemble à tout ce qu'hier
J'ai vu de l'univers
Le jour d'avant j'ai pénétré
Dans cette chevelure
Forêt profonde forêt obscure
Où poussent et s'entrelacent
Les branches de mes pensées
Et aux usines de la face
Ô mon ennemie matinale
On fondait et façonnait hier
Tous les métaux de mes paroles
Et dans ses poings qui la défendent
Masses de fonte impitoyables
Je reconnais je reconnais
Les marteaux-pilons
De ma volonté
MON ALAMBIC vos yeux ce sont mes ALCOOLS
Et votre voix m'enivre ainsi qu'une eau-de-vie
Des clartés d'astres saouls aux monstreux faux cols
Brûlaient votre ESPRIT sur ma nuit inassouvie
JE suis au bord de l'océan sur une plage,
Fin d'été : je vois fuir les oiseaux de passage.
Les flots en s'en allant ont laissé des lingots :
Les méduses d'argent. Il passe des cargos
Sur l'horizon lointain et je cherche ces rimes
Tandis que le vent meurt dans les pins maritimes.
Je pense à Villequier ' arbres profonds et verts '
La Seine non pareille aux spectacles divers
L'Église les tombeaux et l'hôtel des pilotes
Où flotte le parfum des brunes matelotes.
Les noirceurs de mon âme ont bien plus de saveur.
Et le soleil décline avec un air rêveur
Une vague meurtrie a pâli sur le sable
Ainsi mon sang se brise et mon cœur misérable
Y déposant auprès des souvenirs noyés
L'échouage vivant de mes amours choyés.
L'océan a jeté son manteau bleu de roi
Il est sauvage et nu maintenant dans l'effroi
De ce qui vit. Mais lui défie à la tempête
Qui chante et chante et chante ainsi qu'un grand poète.
La nuit descend comme une fumée rabattue
Je suis triste ce soir que le froid sec rend triste
Les soldats chantent encore avant de remonter
Et tels qui vont mourir demain chantent ainsi que des enfants
D'autres l'air sérieux épluchent des salades
J'attends de nouveaux poux et de neuves alertes
J'espère tout le courage qu'il faut pour faire son devoir
J'attends la banquette de tir
J'attends le quart nocturne
J'attends que monte en moi la simplicité de mes grenadiers
J'attends le grog à la gnole
Qui nous réchauffe
Dans les tranchées
La nuit descend comme une fumée rabattue
Les lièvres et les hases bouquinent dans les guérets
La nuit descend comme un agenouillement
Et ceux qui vont mourir demain s'agenouillent
Humblement
L'ombre est douce sur la neige
La nuit descend sans sourire
Ombre des temps qui précède et poursuit l'avenir
poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
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I woke up to a lullaby
I woke up to a lullaby
The birds sang a song for me
They sang their hearts out all the while
Dancing on the maple tree
Each bird sang a different song
That melted into one
A song full of promises
For the day that’s just begun
They sang of sorrow
Of happiness and mirth
The sang of marriage
And of birth
They sang of people laughing
And of them crying
They sang of sickness
They sang of dying
This little song
They sang for me
Made me think
Made me free
Descent
Falling victim from neglect
Designed thoughts and intellect
Forgotten and displaced
The crux of my dismay
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
Deeper into this abyss
Weighted down and sinking fast
Life did not offer me
More than false destiny
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
I am nothing
I feel nothing
I am nothing
I feel nothing
Nothing
Nothing...
How deep I descend?
Until I reach my end?
How deep I descend?
song performed by by Fear Factory from Obsolete
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Bo-beh-o-bi Sang The Lips
Bo-beh-o-bi, sang the lips,
Veh-eh-o-mi, sang the glances,
Pi-eh-eh-o, sang the brows,
Li-eh-eh-ey, sang the visage,
Gzi-gzi-gzeh-o, sang the chain.
Thus on a canvas of some correspondences
Beyond dimension lived the face.
poem by Velimir Khlebnikov
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Mon Papa, Mon Meilleur Ami
(Dédié à Tous Les Papas, Birago I.Diop et à Gustave)
Mon papa était plus qu'un père,
Il était plus qu'un bon ami, plus qu'un frère.
Pour ne pas minorer les douleurs des mères
Qui nous ont portés pour plus de neuf mois,
Ses sacrifices pouvaient rivaliser les poids
Et les lourds fardeaux mémorables de l'émoi.
Mon père n'est plus, depuis plus d'une décennie;
Jusqu'à présent, je ne veux pas le mettre au passé simple de la vie.
Son sang coule dans mes veines le jour et la nuit,
Quand je rie, il rie aussi.
Quand je pleure, il me réconforte,
Il m'encourage, il m'emporte
Chaque jour vers un destin où les portes
Ne sont jamais fermées; ses dévotions ne sont pas mortes.
J'ai bien expliqué, mon papa n'est pas mort,
Son esprit est dans l'air, parmi les vivants et les morts.
Mon papa est retourné à la chaumière,
Au fonds de la poussière, dans la terre,
Parmi les graviers sablonneux de l'océan
Et dans le lent courant du vent.
Mon papa était pour moi plus qu'un père,
Il était mon meilleur ami et le meilleur de mes frères.
poem by Hebert Logerie
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L'Amour qui me tourmente
L'Amour qui me tourmente
Je trouve si plaisant
Que tant plus il s'augmente
Moins j'en veux estre exemt :
Bien que jamais le somme
Ne me ferme les yeux,
Plus amour me consomme
Moins il m'est ennuyeux.
Toute la nuit je veille
Sans cligner au sommeil,
Remembrant la merveille
Qui me tient en éveil,
Me representant celle
Que je voy tout le jour,
De qui l'image belle
Travaille mon sejour.
Toute nuit son image
Se montre devant moy :
Le trait de son visage
Tout tel qu'il est je voy :
Je voy sa belle bouche,
Et je voy son beau sein,
Ses beaux tetins je touche,
Et je baise sa main.
Le jour si ma Maistresse
Favorable m'a ris,
Il faut que j'en repesse
Toute nuit mes espris.
Si d'une oeillade gaye
Elle m'a fait faveur,
La nuit sa douce playe
Me chatouille le coeur.
S'elle égaye la place
De son bal gracieux,
Toute la nuit sa grace
Recourt devant mes yeux :
Si en douce merveille
J'ay ouy sa chanson,
Toute nuit en l'oreille
J'en regoute le son.
O heureuse ma vie
De jouïr d'un tel heur !
Non, non, je n'ay envie
D'avoir d'un dieu l'honneur,
Puis qu'à souhet je passe
Et la nuit et le jour,
Recueillant tant de grace
Du tourment de l'amour.
poem by Jean Antoine de Baif
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A Little Songbird
A little songbird sang
from a treetop high.
It sang for blue skies
for within to fly.
It sang out its message
at the first rays
of the dawning day.
It also sang for peace and love
within a world filled with unrest.
It sang a joyous message
for all those who wanted to hear
that little songbird
that sang in a treetop high.
13 January 2008
poem by David Harris
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Silence et nuit des bois
Il est plus d'un silence, il est plus d'une nuit,
Car chaque solitude a son propre mystère :
Les bois ont donc aussi leur façon de se taire
Et d'être obscurs aux yeux que le rêve y conduit.
On sent dans leur silence errer l'âme du bruit,
Et dans leur nuit filtrer des sables de lumière.
Leur mystère est vivant : chaque homme à sa manière
Selon ses souvenirs l'éprouve et le traduit.
La nuit des bois fait naître une aube de pensées ;
Et, favorable au vol des strophes cadencées,
Leur silence est ailé comme un oiseau qui dort.
Et le coeur dans les bois se donne sans effort :
Leur nuit rend plus profonds les regards qu'on y lance,
Et les aveux d'amour se font de leur silence.
poem by Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme
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Letter To Hermione
People stared at the makeup on his face
Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped onto the stage
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and disgrace
And he was alright the band was altogether
Yes he was alright the song went on forever
And he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight
And he sang all night long
Femme fatales emerged from the shadows
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darness and dismay
And he was alright the band was altogether
Yes he was alright the song went on forever
And he was awful nice
Really quite paradise
And he sang all night long
Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name
And he was alright the band was altogether
Yes he was alright the song went on forever
And he was awful nice
Really quite paradise
And he sang all night long
song performed by by David Bowie
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I Sing Last / Not For Tears
We've been told lies.
We've been herded around
Taken for rides, told that this is the one
We've learned all the steps and where do they lead
Right back to zero or not far I believe
Making history as we open our eyes
And no one's quite sure so we... We improvise
And wherever it leads us is wherever we'll go
I'd dance forever if they'd let me, you know
Wearing our hair up in anger we cry
The revolutions dead it went out in style
The children are learning much faster than we
Soon they'll be older but then again, so will we
Time has come for each of us to decide
To follow blindly or to step out of line
The party is over it has been for years
Let's use the water to wash up, not for tears
Seems such a pity
It seemed we had the same dream
And thinking of things past
You sang first I sang last
You sang first I sang last
You sang first I sang last
song performed by by Men Without Hats
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A Credo
I.
For the sole edification
Of this decent congregation,
Goodly people, by your grant
I will sing a holy chant—
I will sing a holy chant.
If the ditty sound but oddly,
'Twas a father, wise and godly,
Sang it so long ago—
Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang:
'Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!'
II.
He, by custom patriarchal,
Loved to see the beaker sparkle;
And he thought the wine improved,
Tasted by the lips he loved—
By the kindly lips he loved.
Friends, I wish this custom pious
Duly were observed by us,
To combine love, song, wine,
And sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang:
'Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!'
III.
Who refuses this our Credo,
And who will not sing as we do,
Were he holy as John Knox,
I'd pronounce him heterodox!
I'd pronounce him heterodox,
And from out this congregation,
With a solemn commination,
Banish quick the heretic,
Who will not sing as Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang:
'Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!'
poem by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Lines To Helen
A NEW-BORN INFANT, 1821.
She lives-that first pulsation of the heart
Is life!-receive, dear babe, thy destin'd part;
Yet frail thy being as the op'ning rose
When chill the rude wind blows.
But ah, be like the blossom of the vale,
Lov'd infant, shelter'd from the mountain gale;
On whose meek head descend no ruffling showers,
Who lives the span of flowers.
And far from thee may sorrow's tempest bend,
Nor ever wasting pangs the bosom rend;
Calm be thy day of life, and o'er its bloom
May evening mildly come!
poem by Helen Maria Williams
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Désir
Mon désir est la région qui est devant moi
Derrière les lignes boches
Mon désir est aussi derrière moi
Après la zone des armées
Mon désir c'est la butte du Mesnil
Mon désir est là sur quoi je tire
De mon désir qui est au-delà de la zone des armées
Je n'en parle pas aujourd'hui mais j'y pense
Butte du Mesnil je t'imagine en vain
Des fils de fer des mitrailleuses des ennemis trop sûrs d'eux
Trop enfoncés sous terre déjà enterrés
Ca ta clac des coups qui meurent en s'éloignant
En y veillant tard dans la nuit
Le Decauville qui toussote
La tôle ondulée sous la pluie
Et sous la pluie ma bourguignotte
Entends la terre véhémente
Vois les lueurs avant d'entendre les coups
Et tel obus siffler de la démence
Ou le tac tac tac monotone et bref plein de dégoût
Je désire
Te serrer dans ma main Main de Massiges
Si décharnée sur la carte
Le boyau Gœthe où j'ai tiré
J'ai tiré même sur le boyau Nietzsche
Décidément je ne respecte aucune gloire
Nuit violente et violette et sombre et pleine d'or par moments
Nuits des hommes seulement
Nuit du 24 septembre
Demain l'assaut
Nuit violente ô nuit dont l'épouvantable cri profond devenait plus intense de minute en minute
Nuit qui criait comme une femme qui accouche
Nuit des hommes seulement
poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Birth-Day Ode 01
O my faithful Friend!
O early chosen, ever found the same,
And trusted and beloved! once more the verse
Long destin'd, always obvious to thine ear,
Attend indulgent.
poem by Robert Southey
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Day Of The Locusts
Oh, the benches were stained with tears and perspiration,
The birdies were flying from tree to tree.
There was little to say, there was no conversation
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree.
And the locusts sang off in the distance,
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody.
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance,
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me.
I glanced into the chamber where the judges were talking,
Darkness was everywhere, it smelled like a tomb.
I was ready to leave, I was already walkin,
But the next time I looked there was light in the room.
And the locusts sang, yeah, it give me a chill,
Oh, the locusts sang such a sweet melody.
Oh, the locusts sang their high whining trill,
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me.
Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin,
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin the pieces wouldnt fall on me.
Yeah, the locusts sang off in the distance,
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody.
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance,
And the locusts sang and they were singing for me.
I put down my robe, picked up my diploma,
Took hold of my sweetheart and away we did drive,
Straight for the hills, the black hills of dakota,
Sure was glad to get out of there alive.
And the locusts sang, well, it give me a chill,
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody.
And the locusts sang with a high whinin trill,
Yeah, the locusts sang and they was singing for me,
Singing for me, well, singing for me.
song performed by by Bob Dylan
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The Great Divide
She was reading a book that she'd already read
Just to pass the time
He just sat there and stared at the TV set
Like he was barely alive
And when the local news was over
They would climb the stairs
And crawl in bed underneath the covers
Like neither one was there
It's a long, long way
Across the great divide
The songs that they once sang
Now echo far and wide
They could still get back
All the love that they have lost
(But) only if they both will reach across
('Cause) it's a long, long way to the other side
Of the great divide
He was up in the attic on the fourth of July
'Cause they flew a flag in the yard
When he found some old roses she had long ago dried
Before they drifted apart
And how the years had slipped right by them
He didn't understand
He carried a petal into the kitchen
And he placed it in her hand
It's a long, long way
Across the great divide
The songs that they once sang
Now echo far and wide
They could still get back
All the love that they have lost
(But) only if they both will reach across
('Cause) it's a long, long way to the other side
Of the great divide
song performed by by Tim McGraw
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Bread and games
They told me I should sing
But I didn't know what to sing
So I asked
What do you want me to sing
Sing bread and games
Bread and games and sing a long
And so I sang
And BANG
The pianist was shot
He had too long a finger
He had too short a thumb
And he was dumb
The said and you sing
Sing bread and games
Bread and games and sing a lot
And so I sang
And BANG
The trumpeter was shot
He had too round a face
He had too long a chin
For a musician a terrible sin
And you sing
Sing bread and games
Bread and games and sing a lot
And so I sang
And BANG
Sorry we had no choice
You've got such a terrible voice
2010.
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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