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Long Song For Zelda

I'm standing at the window
while you're in the tub.
Your feet are sticking out,
I can see them in the cabinet mirror.
 
There's this silly record
with a scratch in the middle, and the tarot cards
I'm laying on your assorted shades1 shawl.
 
There's the smell of incense,
and the candles melted away.
Everything is so blurry,
the thread of thoughts lost its way.
 
I no longer know whether I'm even thinking.
I no longer know whether I'm even thinking.
 
There is a girl I used to love
at the end of the night,
I stood there watching the supernovas
and the rings of Saturn.
I mean to say
I was my empty jeans and my jacket
flapping, hoisted on a bone stick,
the brittle bones of drugs.
I was the tranny's monkey2,
yes, I really was it,
my pink ass perched on the brim of the gutter.
 
The tranny's monkey
with its tiny black fingers,
you know, they fondled my ass like a raw wound,
I mean my nose,
my nose into which the cars raced,
like into a tunnel.
My nostrils!
With their exhausts,
clouds of heroin
and the horse power3
horse power, horse power
 
while listening to an old jazz tune
in front of an old bar
with some kind of4 tissue paper.
I mean, you go to the bog or something,
and I'm sitting there with my ass in the gutter,
with the hesitant flapping
of a pavement flag
of which I was the pole,
and the stars spinning everywhere,
all around my head,
my brains made of drug
and my brittle bones
that would eventually disappear too
into the gutter's water
together with my reflection
and my nose,
my reflected, burned nose.
 
I am the one who saw a bulldog coming hurtling
and it made all the buildings of the crossing street sway behind itself
to the east of its sleighs.
Bulldog, you're so pretty!!!
And I love so much your reddish hair.
bark bark bark
He raised its blue cock to take a piss.
I love you so,
and at the en of my leash: Zelda
"Your method
is a bit old"
she says.
On the contrary,
it always works very well with a dog.
This compliment was not meant for you.
You though it was because you're a redhead too.
It is your dog that makes my heart race.
Bark bark bark
Dogs, bark!
Dogs bark in the night!
The night, bark!
Dogs, bark!
And what about you? Bark!
 
And then day breaks
I love you Zelda!
I love you Zelda!
I was singing
I was singing with the sun.
Zelda!
 
I'm standing at the window
while you're in the tub.
Your feet are sticking out,
I can see them in the cabinet mirror.
 
  • 1. a shawl in various shades of the same colour. Not quite sure how to say that in English
  • 2. no idea what he means by that. Maybe some junkie slang of the 70's?
  • 3. "cheval" (horse) is a slangy name of heroin
  • 4. "coltré" is not a word, and I can't hear what he says. I have no idea what that adjective might be
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notaprincess9notaprincess9    Sab, 16/02/2019 - 16:18

Thank you for translating it! Reading the translated lyrics gave me a headache. Is there anyone who knows what he means by all that?

notaprincess9notaprincess9    Sab, 16/02/2019 - 17:27

Ah, I see. I only know how to introduce myself in french so I was wondering what the song was about. Sorry if I put you through hell.