Lyrics of The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galas

The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galas
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Date of issue: 24.02.1982
Song language: French

The Litanies of Satan

(original)
Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Ô Prince de l’exil, à qui l’on a fait tort
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes par l’amour le goût du Paradis,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Ô toi qui de la Mort, ta vieille et forte amante,
Engendras l’Espérance, — une folle charmante!
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d’un échafaud.
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui sais en quels coins des terres envieuses
Le Dieu jaloux cacha les pierres précieuses,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi dont l’oeil clair connaît les profonds arsenaux
Où dort enseveli le peuple des métaux,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi dont la large main cache les précipices
Au somnambule errant au bord des édifices,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, magiquement, assouplis les vieux os
De l’ivrogne attardé foulé par les chevaux,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, pour consoler l’homme frêle qui souffre,
Nous appris à mêler le salpêtre et le soufre,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui poses ta marque, ô complice subtil,
Sur le front du Crésus impitoyable et vil,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui mets dans les yeux et dans le coeur des filles
Le culte de la plaie et l’amour des guenilles,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Bâton des exilés, lampe des inventeurs,
Confesseur des pendus et des conspirateurs,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Père adoptif de ceux qu’en sa noire colère
Du paradis terrestre a chassés Dieu le Père,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Prière
Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteurs
Du Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeurs
De l’Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!
Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l’Arbre de Science,
Près de toi se repose, à l’heure où sur ton front
Comme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s'épandront!
(translation)
O thou most learned and most beautiful of Angels,
God betrayed by fate and deprived of praise,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
O Prince of exile, who has been wronged
And who, defeated, always raises you stronger,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who know everything, great king of subterranean things,
Familiar healer of human anxieties,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who, even to lepers, to accursed pariahs,
Teach by love the taste of Paradise,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
O you who of Death, your old and strong lover,
Begot Hope, — a charming madwoman!
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who give the outlaw that calm and lofty gaze
Who damns a whole people around a scaffold.
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who know in what corners of the envious lands
The jealous God hid the gems,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You whose clear eye knows the deep arsenals
Where sleeps buried the people of metals,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You whose broad hand hides the precipices
To the wandering somnambulist at the edge of buildings,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who magically soften the old bones
Of the retarded drunkard trampled by horses,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who, to console the frail man who suffers,
Taught us to mix saltpeter and sulfur,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who make your mark, o subtle accomplice,
On the brow of the ruthless and vile Croesus,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
You who put in the eyes and in the hearts of girls
The cult of the wound and the love of rags,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
Staff of the exiles, lamp of the inventors,
Confessor of the hanged and of the conspirators,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
Adoptive father of those whom in his black anger
From the earthly paradise drove out God the Father,
O Satan, have mercy on my long misery!
Pray
Glory and praise to you, Satan, in the heights
From Heaven, where you reigned, and in the depths
Of Hell, where, vanquished, you dream in silence!
Make my soul one day, under the Tree of Science,
Next to you rests, at the hour when on your brow
Like a new Temple its branches will spread!
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