BlackSea4ever
Mon, 26/11/2018 - 17:37
Hmmm. Thanks, but this is another example where not understanding the language turned out to be the plus...lol
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Translation
Viola
In Viola1's eyes
you can read her pain,
there are men who are no men
on her Stations of the Cross.
They come and shake off
their sorrows one after the other
in earthenware arms
that she stretches out all the same
for she's a believer.
Now don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes.
Viola,
look at yourself
and see if this is
love's doing.
Viola,
no, don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes,
Viola.
In Viola's lives
nobody thinks of having children.
Abortion2 is king and the queen is a lady of the night,
or maybe a marquessa that gets excised between two
sex parties and comes back, submissive,
in front of your eyes3
Now don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes.
Viola,
look at yourself
and see if this is
love's doing.
Viola,
no, don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes,
Viola.
They found your body
in the Seine near my place
I recognized you, Viola
Some eyes you don't forget.
Now don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes,
Viola.
Look at yourself
and see if this is
love's doing.
Viola,
no, don't go thinking
that's the way
love goes,
Viola.
Viola
Viola
Viola
Viola
Viola
Viola
- 1. This surname somewhat hints at "viol" (rape)
- 2. IVG: Interruption Volontaire de Grossesse (voluntary interruption of pregnancy) is the legal term for abortion in France. "Interruption" is feminine, so comparing it to a king sounds pretty awkward
- 3. this sentence makes very little sense, both syntactically and factually. There is no link whatsoever between excision and prostitution, and there is a lot more to say about relationships between procreation and prostitution.
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Comments
However likeable the intent, this is very poor French. It uses some cliché expressions that have little meaning, and some bits are even ungrammatical.
And this vision of prostitution is well-meaning but rather ignorant, for the little I know about it. As if prostitutes were unaware of their condition or something.