FAUSTINE - Song for a Colored Singer (part IV)

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FAUSTINE - Premier Album mars 2015

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Songs for a colored singer
By Elizabeth Bishop

IV

What's that shining in the leaves,
the shadowy leaves,
like tears when somebody grieves,
shining, shining in the leaves?

Is it dew or is it tears,
dew or tears,
hanging there for years and years
like a heavy dew of tears?

Then that dew begins to fall,
roll down and fall,
Maybe it's not tears at all.
See it, see it roll and fall.

Hear it falling on the ground,
hear, all around.
That is not a tearful sound,
beating, beating on the ground.

See it lying there like seeds,
like black seeds.
see it taking root like weeds,
faster, faster than the weeds,

all the shining seeds take root,
conspiring root,
and what curious flower or fruit
will grow from that conspiring root?

fruit or flower? It is a face.
Yes, a face.
In that dark and dreary place
each seed grows into a face.

Like an army in a dream
the faces seem,
darker, darker, like a dream.
They're too real to be a dream.

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from FAUSTINE - 1er ALBUM, released June 23, 2015
Faustine Audebert - Elizabeth Bishop
from THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC. All rights reserved

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Faustine Audebert: chant, clavier, compositions
James Mac Gaw: basse
Hélène Brunet: guitare électrique
Nicolas Pointard: batterie

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