Depression | While in the gardens the sea of rotten

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by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)

Translation © by Peter Low

Spleen

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Dans un vieux square où l'océan
Du mauvais temps met son séant
Sur un banc triste aux yeux de pluie
C'est d'une blonde
Rosse et gironde
Que je m'ennuie
Dans ce cabaret du Néant
Qu'est notre vie.

Text Authorship:

by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "Spleen", 1923, from Ludions, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Peter Low) , "Depression", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

Depression

Language: English after the French (Français)

 While in the gardens the sea of rotten
 weather weighs down with his bottom
 an old park-bench with eyes of rain ...
 there is a blonde, 
 all bosom and strife,
 who's making you jaded
 in this whole hollow cabaret
 which is our life.

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a text in French (Français) by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 43