You and the Candles

[embryomystic]

(Hawksley Workman)When societies crumble

Comments

[um_coeur]

So pretty.

[delicata77]

That's a wonderfully evocative song.

[embryomystic]

Isn't it? :D

[zumjay]

Hi! I'm new to you, I found you through your various comments on gonadsandstrife's journal. I wanted to ask: What song/poem do the French lines on your info page come from? They are absolutely beautiful.

[embryomystic]

Hello.

I'm rather surprised to be asked about that, actually. Dunno why. They're a French translation of part of the song 'The Origin of Love', from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I discovered, while watching the movie with my monolingual Francophone billet mother in Sherbrooke, Québec, that when you set the dialogue to French, it subtitles the songs, and the translations are actually vaguely singable to the original tune, though I haven't sat down and muddled it out as of yet. It was enough of an undertaking to write out the lyrics from subtitles.

The English version, as my memory has it:

The last time I saw you
We had just split in two
You was lookin' at me
I was lookin' at you
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognise
'Cause you had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same
As the one down in mine

[zumjay]

I love (and own) that movie, but I guess I haven't watched it often enough to commit it to memory. John Cameron Mitchell made a new movie: Shortbus

[embryomystic]

I heard about that! It's got Sook-Yin Lee in it, this much I know. She and JCM definitely make it worth seeing.

[goodatbreathing]

Happy Birthday old man.

[embryomystic]

Thanks, Dutchie. I'm flattered you remembered.