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La Chambre D'Echo

Where Dead Birds Sing, 2004

Anna-Varney Cantodea

Track #13

Strolling all alone...across the ancient cemetery...-

tell me, isn't everything here...of a timeless green?!

I see that several visitors are also gathered here,

having an idle, little saunter on the old graveyard...just like me.

i keep a candle burning for myself so i won't feel all alone;

we should have done so, but we never celebrated anything here at all.

A leaden weariness creeps viscously like syrup down the hills,

felling everybody...as it crawls upon the monuments...-

only i escape its power, for the moment seem immune;

yet, two elderly ladies, guarding the right, the future tomb

are scolding me, so filled with anger, filled with envy and disdain:

"The dead are furious with you!

as you're wasting your precious time!"

Now there are faces in the carpet, there are people living in the walls;

I hear the dead are calling: "sadness lies in wait in the hours before

dawn!"

These moments, fleeting as they are, they testify to us

they are the silent witnesses of a reason about to pass;

I cannot but admit, carelessly ignoring life's finiteness,

that i am filled with fear and worry...and so much shame because of this.

Well, everything I see, yeas all the images are blurred,

it's hard to guess the future in the short-sighted world.

How should this simple handicap be lightly well ignored,

considering the dreadful blindness with which i have been born.

We should have done so, but we never celebrated anything here at all;

I hear the dead are calling: "sadness lies in wait in the darkest hours...

...right before the dawn!"