
Date of issue: 08.03.1998
Song language: French
Spleen(original) |
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pese comme un couvercle |
Sur l’esprit gemissant en proieaux longs ennuis, |
Et que de l’horizon embrassant tout le cercle |
Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits; |
Quand la terre est changee en un cachot humide, |
Ou l’Esperance, comme une chauve-souris, |
S’en va battant les murs de son aile timide |
Et ce cognantla tete a des plafonds pourris; |
Quand la pluie etalant ses immenses trainees |
D’une vaste prison imite les barreaux, |
Et qu’un peuplemuet d’infames araignees |
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux, |
Des cloches tout a coup sautent avec furie |
Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement, |
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie |
Qui se mettent a geindre opiniatrement. |
(translation) |
When the low heavy sky weighs like a lid |
On the mind moaning in long woes, |
And that of the horizon embracing the whole circle |
He pours us a black day sadder than the nights; |
When the earth is turned into a damp dungeon, |
Or Hope, like a bat, |
Goes beating the walls of its timid wing |
And this head-banging has rotten ceilings; |
When the rain spreading its immense streaks |
Of a vast prison imitates the bars, |
And a mute people of infamous spiders |
Comes to cast its nets deep in our brains, |
Bells suddenly jump with fury |
And raise to the sky an awful howl, |
As well as wandering and homeless spirits |
Who start whining stubbornly. |
Name | Year |
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House Of The Rising Sun | 1999 |
Kolyma | 1999 |
Prologue: The Bride Wears Black | 1997 |
Misery's Dawn | 1999 |
On Lucid Wings | 1998 |
Fall Into Oblivion | 1999 |
A New Winter | 1997 |
(The Dancer) Under A Summer Sky | 1997 |
(The Phoenix) Spring | 1997 |
A Winternight Depression | 1997 |
Redemption | 1999 |
Universe | 1998 |
Passion And Demise | 1999 |
Untergehen und Auferstehen | 1997 |
Twilight | 1997 |
Fields Of Ashes | 1998 |
Autumn Leaves | 1997 |
To Learn Silent Oblivion | 1997 |
The Downfall | 1998 |
Where No Shadows Fall | 1999 |