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Où va la jeune Indoue,
Fille des Parias,
Quand la lune se joue,
Dans les grands mimosas?
Elle court sur la mousse
Et ne se souvient pas
Que partout on repousse
L'enfant des parias;
Le long des lauriers roses,
Rêvant de douce choses, Ah!
Elle passe sans bruit
Et riant à la nuit, Ah!
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Silver moon high in the summer sky
All through the night shine your rays
This sleeping world, you wander by
Shining on our homes and ways
This sleeping world, you wander by
Shining on our homes and ways
Oh moon where past you glide
Tell me oh where does my loved one bide
Oh moon where past you glide
Tell me oh where does my loved one bide
Tell him oh tell him my silver moon
Mine are the arms that shall hold him
That between waking and sleeping he may
Know of the love that awaits him
May between waking and sleeping he may
Know of the love that awaits him
Oh moon light his path far away
Tell him oh tell him who does for him stay
Oh moon light his path far away
Tell him oh tell him who does for him stay
Human soul, may it dream of me
Let by memory wakened be
Oh moon, my silver moon,
Do not wane!
Oh moon, moon!
Do not wane!
Original translation by Laura Auer
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Take my hand
You're a stranger in paradise
I'm lost in a wonderland
With a stranger in paradise
If I stand starry eyed
That's the danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside
An angel like you
I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the common place
Into the rare
Somewhere in space
I hang suspended
Until I know
There's a chance that you care
Won't you answer the fervent prayer?
Of a stranger in paradise
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for
But open your angel's arms
To me stranger in paradise
And tell me that I need be
A stranger no more
Ahh...
I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the common place
And into the rare
Somewhere out in space
I hang suspended
Until I know for sure
There's a chance that you care
Won't you answer this fervent prayer?
Of a stranger in paradise
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for
But open your angel's arms
To me stranger in paradise
And tell me that I need be
A stranger no more
No more
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Nature Boy
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There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise was he
And then one day
One magic day he passed my way
And while we spoken of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
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Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage
Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre
Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages
J’allume au feu du jour ma cigarette
Je ne veux pas travailler je veux fumer
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O sleep
O sleep why dost thou leave me?
Why dost thou leave me?
Why they visionary joys remove?
O sleep, O sleep
O sleep again deceive me
O sleep again deceive me
To my arms
Restore my wand'ring love
My wand'ring love
Restore my wand'ring love
Again deceive me
O sleep
To my arms
To my arms
Restore my wand'ring love
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From the opera, Die tote Stadt.
Glück, das mir verblieb,
rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Abend sinkt im Hag
bist mir Licht und Tag.
Bange pochet Herz an Herz
Hoffnung schwingt sich himmelwärts.
Wie wahr, ein traurig Lied.
Das Lied vom treuen Lieb,
das sterben muss.
Ich kenne das Lied.
Ich hört es oft in jungen,
in schöneren Tagen.
Es hat noch eine Strophe—
weiß ich sie noch?
Naht auch Sorge trüb,
rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Neig dein blaß Gesicht
Sterben trennt uns nicht.
Mußt du einmal von mir gehn,
glaub, es gibt ein Auferstehn.
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Laura Auer Los Angeles, California
My grandfather always said that we are here for two reasons; to experience love and to experience beauty.
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