Hubert Félix Thiéfaine — Libido Moriendi song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Libido Moriendi" by Hubert Félix Thiéfaine.
Lyrics
On reste làsur le quai
On attend
On attend sous un ciel de suie
Que les dieux nous métamorphosent
Et ça sent le sexe transi
Sous le rose de nos ecchymoses
On attend sous l’oeil du cyclone
L’ouragan de nos souvenirs
Tous ces milliers de bouts d’icônes
Dans nos boîtes crâniennes en délire
On pleure pas parce qu’un un train s’en va (bis)
On reste làsur le quai
On attend
On attend l’ange inquisiteur
Dans le calme froid de l’aurore
Quand les chiens vitreux de la peur
Flairent l’odeur sucrée de la mort
On pleure pas parce qu’un un train s’en va (bis)
On reste làsur le quai
On attend
On attend l’ultime prédatrice
Dans sa robe de vamp-araignée
Et l’acier de son lady-smith
Au moment du dernier baiser
Lyrics translation
We stay there on the wharf
We're waiting
We wait under a sky of soot
May the gods transform us
And it smells like transient sex
Under the pink of our bruises
We wait under the eye of the cyclone
The hurricane of our memories
All these thousands of bits of icons
In our crazed skull boxes
We don't cry because a train is leaving (bis)
We stay there on the wharf
We're waiting
We wait for the Inquisitor Angel
In the cold calm of the dawn
When fear glassy dogs
Smell the sweet smell of death
We don't cry because a train is leaving (bis)
We stay there on the wharf
We're waiting
We're waiting for the ultimate predator.
In her vamp-Spider Dress
And the steel of his lady-smith
At the time of The Last Kiss