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I didn't talk to you
Fearing that the mounts and valleys that you think of me
Would fall at your feet...
I believe and understand
That the logical stability
Of whom doesn't want to explode
Is good for the shield you are...
 
Saudade is the air (see Saudade in English wikipedia, means nostalgic yearning for someone we miss)
Thar I keep sucking and accepting
As a Summer fruit
In the gardens of your kiss...
But I feel that you know that you feel too
That in a greater day you'll be a netless trapeze
Hanging over the world
In everything I see...
 
Cuz today I woke up and remembered
That I am mage and wizard
And my crystal is a sheet of paper
In which I paint you nude, nude
In a flame mine and yours.
 
I suspect that you haven't yet noticed
That your destiny was invented
By broken phonographs
Into which you are moulding yourself (US: molding)
And all your strategic planning
Of synchronization of the heart
Are laws like walls and ceilings
Whose glasses you keep stepping on
 
I yearn for the day you wake up
Above all your numbers
Square roots of subtracted sums
Always with the same solution...
You could stop making of life
A vicious cycle
In harmony with your spoilt gesture (spoilt as in "the gesture of a spoilt child", pampered,)
And with the palm of your hand
 
Cuz today I woke up and remembered
That I am mage and wizard
That my crystal is a sheet of paper
In which I paint you nude, nude
In a flame mine and yours.
In a flame mine and yours.
 
I am sorry if I made you fire and night
Without requesting written authorization
To the guild of gods (guild as in trade union)
But it wasn't me who chose you.
I am sorry if I used you
As a shelter for my senses
Pieces of lost silences
That I found again in you...
 
Cuz today I woke up and remembered
That I am mage and wizard...
....
...In which I paint you nude, nude
In a flame mine and yours.
In a flame mine and yours.
 
You'll end up hurting someone
The shot passed aside me
You'll end up hurting someone
If you haven't given yoursel to anyone
You've hurt someone
To me....It passed aside.
 
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Comments
algebraalgebra    Sun, 15/08/2010 - 21:14

Great translation, tough text :)