- a une passante
La rue assourdissante autour de moi hurlait.
Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,
Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse
Soulevant, balançant le feston et l'ourlet ;
Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.
Moi, je buvais, crispé comme un extravagant,
Dans son oeil, ciel livide où germe l'ouragan,
- alan's waiting
Sleepless night
For the one who ever waits
He listens to the wind outside
As the red moon slowly sets
He lies awake
Staring at the flush
The reason of his wait
remains unexplained.
- Au milieu du ciel
J'entends la vie s'etendre a minuit
J'attends l'envie de mes sens interdits
Coule lumiere sans lui sans elle
A voir la terre me poussent des ailes
Tu ris tout le temps et tu fais semblant
De supporter les etoiles dans le vent
Si seulement se quittaient enfin
La solitude et les lendemains
- Bed In Summer
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
- Berlin
Le soir tombe sur la ville
Taffetas confus d'odeurs sonores
Artères, enluminures et ors
Moribondes bacchanales
Berlin, weiss du was ich weiss
Berlin, von der Mauerstrasse
- Electric Jive
"Wasted youth" as they say
It's too late to reprehend
I don't want to follow that way
These years are here to be spent
This narrow education
Didn't succeed anyway
An inculcated vocation
Never incites to obey
- Empty House
Lost in the misty suburbs of some northern city
Sea-bide twist in style
A weathercup in the roof
Ivory creeping on the wall
Heavily closed doors and shutters
reveal that no-one leaves there
And the rain falls
- Hillside manor
The place is welcoming
It may not looklike
Seen by a stormy night
It's always like this
With such ancient houses
It's as old as the hill
Such a charming place to stay in
- Johnny got his gun
Johnny's alone in his mind
As spring's colours let him cold,
Remembers the day
When Mary came to him and said :
"It's for ever..."
Now Johnny can't understand
Why Mary will never touch his hand ... Why?Why?
- Marine
Silencieuse et divine comme une étrange nuit
Alors que le soleil innonde ses rivages,
Immobile, la mer étale jusqu'à l'infini,
Dans cette valse triste, de multiples visages.
Un oiseau semble au loin flotter sous les nuages
Dans le sillage blanc des filets d'un vaisseau
Le cortège argenté d' un vain pélerinage
- New Flood
Screen religion shows love and action
For gods of violence, you match in silence
You all have dreams, the problem it seems,
Like everyone dreams the same one
Forget the time when you were told
It could get better later
A New Flood's breaking in your soul
- Running To The Sun
Leaving the rush of crowded streets
To feel a virgin earth beneath your feet
The shaft of sunligth that shines on you
It makes you look like something new
You came across the lands and sees
You think you know what "open space" means
Now you're under that southern lattitude
- Sandcastle
Walking alone by the pale moon
I hear the sound from inside
What we hope for never comes so soon
Wish Time is on our side
Turn your face to the spindrift
See the waves rolling over the rocks
Build your sandcastle in the rain
- That was no martian
I guess that's it.
Yes, that's the thing!
It looks terrific;
It's no human being.
Unexpected situation:
The world will soon be brought
In a torrent of destruction
That leaves no life around.
- the joker
So fortune teller, you shady bard
You read my future in your evil cards
My dreams are disturbed by Kings and Queens
Armies of figures follow it seems
Staring at me when I sleep at night
The frightening face of the Joker
He is the one you are laughing at