Evereve — Spleen song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Spleen" by Evereve.

Lyrics

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pese comme un couvercle
Sur l’esprit gemissant en proieaux longs ennuis
Et que de l’horizon embrassant tout le cercle
Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;
Quand la terre est changee en un cachot humide
Ou l’Esperance, comme une chauve-souris
S’en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Et ce cognantla tete a des plafonds pourris;
Quand la pluie etalant ses immenses trainees
D’une vaste prison imite les barreaux
Et qu’un peuplemuet d’infames araignees
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux
Des cloches tout a coup sautent avec furie
Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie
Qui se mettent a geindre opiniatrement
— Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique
Defilent lentement dans mon ame, l’Espoir
Vaincu, pleure, et l’Angoisse atroce, despotique
Sur mon crane incline plante son drapeau noir

Lyrics translation

When the low and heavy Sky weighs like a lid
On the moaning mind in long projectiles trouble
And that of the horizon embracing the whole circle
He pours us a black day sadder than the nights;
When the Earth is changed into a wet dungeon
Or hope, like a bat
Goes pounding the walls of her shy wing
And this banging head has Rotten ceilings;
When the rain spreading its immense traineas
From a vast prison imitates bars
And that a bunch of infamous spiders
Comes to stretch his nets deep in our brains
Bells suddenly jump with fury
And throw a terrible howl to the sky
As well as wandering and fatherless spirits
Who start to groan stubbornly
- And long hearses, without drums or music
Slowly scroll through my soul, hope
Defeated, cries, and atrocious, despotic anguish
On my crane tilts plant his black flag