Friday, April 22, 2011

Listening 6


Sung by Mireille Delunsch
Un grand sommeil noir, text by Paul Verlaine, composed by Edgard Varèse, sung by Mireille Delunsch
Un grand sommeil noir
Tombe sur ma vie:
Dormez, tout espoir,
Dormez, toute envie!

Je ne vois plus rien,
Je perds la mémoire
Du mal et du bien...
O la triste histoire!

Je suis un berceau
Qu'une main balance
Au creux d'un caveau:
Silence, silence!
(English poetic translation)
A long black sleep
Descends upon my life:
Sleep, all hope,
Sleep, all desire!

I can no longer see anything,
I am losing my remembrance
Of the bad and the good . . .
Oh, the sad story!

I am a cradle
That is rocked by a hand
In the depth of a vault.
Silence, silence!

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