Alain Goraguer — Les Poètes song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Les Poètes" by Alain Goraguer.

Lyrics

Je ne sais ce qui me possde et me pousse dire voix haute
Ni pour la piti ni pour l’aide, ni comme on avouerait ses fautes
Ce qui m’habite et qui m’obsde
Celui qui chante se torture, quels cris en moi quel animal
Je tue ou quelle crature, au nom du bien au nom du mal
Seuls le savent ceux qui se turent
Machado dort Collioure, trois pas suffirent hors d’Espagne
Que le ciel pour lui se ft lourd, il s’assit dans cette campagne
Et ferma les yeux pour toujours
Au-dessus des eaux et des plaines, au-dessus des toits des collines
Un plain-chant monte gorge pleine, est-ce vers l’toile Hlderlin?
Est-ce vers l’toile Verlaine?
Marlowe il te faut la taverne, non pour Faust mais pour y mourir
Entre les tueurs qui te cernent de leurs poignards et de leurs rires
la lueur d’une lanterne
Etoiles poussires de flammes, en aot qui tombez sur le sol
Tout le ciel cette nuit proclame l’hcatombe des rossignols
Mais que sait l’univers du drame
La souffrance enfante les songes comme une ruche ses abeilles
L’homme crie o son fer le ronge et sa plaie engendre un soleil
Plus beau que les anciens mensonges
Je ne sais ce qui me possde et me pousse dire voix haute
Ni pour la piti ni pour l’aide, ni comme on avouerait ses fautes
Ce qui m’habite et qui m’obsde.

Lyrics translation

I do not know what possde me and pushes me to say aloud
Neither for the piti nor for the help, nor as one would confess his faults
What inhabits me and obsesses me
He who sings tortures himself, what cries in me what animal
I kill or what a creature, in the name of good in the name of evil
Only those who are silent know this
Machado sleeps Collioure, three steps were enough outside of Spain
May the sky for him be heavy, he sat in this campaign
And closed his eyes forever
Above the waters and the plains, above the roofs of the hills
A plain-chant rises full gorge, is it towards the Hlderlin canvas?
Is it to the Verlaine canvas?
Marlowe you need the tavern, not for Faust but to die there
Among the killers who surround you with their daggers and their laughter
the glow of a lantern
Stars dust with flames, in aot that fall to the ground
All the sky tonight proclaims The Nightingale hcatombe
But what does the world of drama know
Suffering gives birth to dreams like a hive its bees
The man cries out his iron gnaws at him and his wound begets a sun
More beautiful than the old lies
I do not know what possde me and pushes me to say aloud
Neither for the piti nor for the help, nor as one would confess his faults
What inhabits me and obsesses me.