Monica BouBou - music/Charles Baudelaire - lyrics - Autumn Song

from Delicious Night by Baudelaire In A Box

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lyrics

Soon shall we plunge into winter's icy pall.
Farewell to the brightness of summer's sweet sojourn.
Even now I hear the sound of firewood,
Clattering on the paving stones, in the courtyard.
Hate, horror, shivering; hard forced labor,
I will be possessed of winter's wrath.
And like the sun in his polar Hades,
My heart will be a frozen block.
All a-tremble as I listen to each falling log.

The building of a gallows has not a duller sound.
The crumbling of a tower besieged by batt'ring ram.
Resembling my spirit, lulled by the noise,
Of those thuds monotonous, in each crash of wood.
Seems to me that somewhere they're building a coffin,
In great haste, but for whom?
Yesterday, there was summer.
Today, here is autumn.
The mysterious noise sounds like departure.

I love the greenish light of your long eyes.
Sweet beauty, but all today is bitter.
Nothing, your love, your hearth, or your boudoir,
Is worth the sunlight on the sea.
Yet love me, be tender as a mother.
A mistress, a sister, be the fleeting sweetness.
Short task, the tomb awaits, let me bow my head on your knee.

Although I mourn for summer,
Short and bright and torrid.
Even to an ingrate,
The gorgeous autumn sunset.
Taste the sweet, yellow rays of the end of autumn.

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from Delicious Night, released April 9, 2019
Nora Barton - cello, Monica Boubou - vocals, viola, Billie Howard - violin, Ronnie Kuller - violin

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