Luxuria - Mlle Lyrics
Ces quelques pas du palier a la chambre dalbertine, cesQuelques pas que person ne ne pouvait plus arreter, je les fis avecDelices, avec prudence, comme plonge dans un elementNouveau, comme si en avancant javais lentement deplaceDu bonheur, et en meme temps avec un sentiment inconnu deToute-puissance, et dentrer enfin dans un heritage quiMeut de tout temps appartenu.*A winters nightThe northern quayThe isle of dogsThe rabid one is meYou sip your drinkUndismayedAnd I just saidThese days my heart seems to be a kind of hand grenadeNothing in the air tugs at the tower blocksAs you raise your finger and pull the pinNothing much on earth moves down these desolating docksDo you really think you just scratched your chin?But you were never albertineAnd I was never poor marcelWho were you that time round,Mademoiselle?Monsieur a peur du parfum des princessesAnd now I act upAnd youve a winning frownIve contracted loveAs Im devoured downBlame my deadening intensityAnd tell me how you got the part in thisMy own illicit agonyI lay it on pretty thickYou spread yourself pretty thinDucking and dividing under every skinAnd my final words as you get up and leaveIf youre free as air, I dont want to breatheGood evening,I am the madman in love with your daughterWe need to talkJust you and meI saw her last in edenOr some other far eastern quarterWhere the river snakes its way out to seaBut you were never albertineAnd I was never poor marcelWho were you that time round,Mademoiselle?* marcel proust - a lombre des jeunes filles en fleursThose few steps from the landing to albertines door,Those few steps which no one now could prevent myTaking, I took with delight, with prudence, as thoughPlunged into a new and strange element, as if in goingForward I had been gently displacing the liquid streamOf happiness, and at the same time with a strange feelingOf absolute power, and of entering at length into anInheritance which had belonged to me from all time.Translated by c k scott moncrieff
