The Enemy from Baudelaire & Piano by Susanna

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3.	The Enemy	5:53

Lyrics

The Enemy

My youth was nothing but a darkling storm
Shot through at times by brilliant bursts of sun;
And in my garden few red fruits remain
After the thunder’s ravages and the rain.

Now I have reached the time of autumn thoughts
When spade and rake are needed to reclaim
The flooded land where water has dug out
Holes in the earth, gaping as wide as tombs.

Who knows if the new flowers that I dream of
Will ever find in this poor soil, washed clean
Like some bleak strand, their mystic quickening food?

— O sorrow, sorrow! Time consumes our life;
The enemy who gnaws our hearts unseen
Grows tall and waxes strong on our lost blood.

Credits

from Baudelaire & Piano, released September 11, 2020
Susanna - piano and vocals
Music by Susanna
Lyrics by Charles Baudelaire
Translation by Anthony Mortimer

Recorded at Atlantis Studio Stockholm by Janne Hansson
Mixed and mastered at Audio Virus LAB Oslo by Helge Sten

Produced by Deathprod and Susanna
Cover art by Marjorie Cameron
Permission by Cameron-Parsons Foundation
and OTO Archives
Lay out by Johanna Blom
Label SusannaSonata

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