Destruction from Elevation by Susanna
Tracklist
| 12. | Destruction | 3:19 |
Lyrics
Destruction
The Devil, busy at my side, infects
The air with vague impalpable unrest;
I swallow it and feel it burn my lungs
And swell them with an endless guilty lust.
Knowing my love of Art, he often takes
The most seductive female forms,
And, with his specious arguments, he trains
My lips to crave vile potions, liquid charms.
He leads me thus, far from the sight of God,
Gasping for breath and weary with the road,
Into wide plains and deserts of Ennui;
And there, before my baffled eyes, he throws
Corpses with gaping wounds and sullied clothes,
And all Destruction’s bloody panoply.
Credits
Music by Susanna
Lyrics by Charles Baudelaire
Translation by Anthony Mortimer, used with permission
License
All rights reserved.
The Norwegian artist Susanna has released albums as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna Wallumrød since 2004 on labels like Rune Grammofon/ECM/Grappa Musikkforlag and since 2011 on her own label SusannaSonata. Critically acclaimed for both her own songs and her highly personal interpretations of other people's songs.