Lyrics and voice melody: Lux Absentiae
Guitar: Thomas Gutehrlé
Recorded and edited by Thomas Gutehrlé
Photo credit: Mashman

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Les palétuviers

Lyrics and voice melody: Lux Absentiae
Guitar: Thomas Gutehrlé
Recorded and edited by Thomas Gutehrlé
Photo credit: Lux Absentiae

Grace / To the Ground

This song is a tribute to Colum McCann's novel "Let the Great World Spin", published in 2009 (and more)
Titre du roman en français : "Et que le vaste monde poursuive sa course folle"

Music and recording: Lux Absentiae
Picture by Lux Absentiae

Lux Absentiae

Let the Great World Spin

Lyrics, music and recording: Lux Absentiae
Image credit: Nacho Herranz and Nacho Rojo, "#UErfanos"

Mare Nostrum

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Marche, marche

Le Crapaud, poème de Victor Hugo extrait de La Légende des Siècles
Image : "Mr Toad", Pauline Smith

Lecture : Victor Hugo, Le Crapaud

I've slept for a long time

Hideaway, hideaway, hideaway
Was my sap
No more home, no more home, no more home
Just a trap

Until the vision
Of dandelions
Brightening, lighting up
The steep path
Please teach me
Self-reliance
Silence my fears
Oh dandelions!

I've slept for a long time
("Die Sonne glänzt, es blühen die Gefilde,
Die Tage kommen blütenreich und milde,
Der Abend blüht hinzu, und helle Tage gehen
Vom Himmel abwärts, wo die Tag' entstehen.

Das Jahr erscheint mit seinen Zeiten
Wie eine Pracht, wo Feste sich verbreiten,
Der Menschen Tätigkeit beginnt mit neuem Ziele,
So sind die Zeichen in der Welt, der Wunder viele.")*

Until the vision
Of dandelions
Brightening, lighting up
The steep path
Please teach me
Self-reliance
Silence my fears
Oh dandelions!

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*["Der Frühling", a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin
Traduction française du poème ici : http://www.traduirelefondetlaforme.com/le-printemps-7]

Lyrics, music and recording: Lux Absentiae
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Dandelions

Respirer l'air
Le souffle dense
Miroite-t'il 
Une transcendance ?
Le jour semblable à la lune

(Côté bâbord, les pieds sur terre
Côté tribord, idées légères
Les nuits s'emmêlent et le fuient)

Des poussières dansent
Devant ses yeux
Au gré des vœux 
Son cœur balance
Des renaissances
Colorent les cieux
Aux vents contraires
Son cœur balance

Ooooh...
Les marées passent

Aux vents contraires
Il pense,
Emporté
Aux vents contraires
Il danse
Solaire
Enlacé par les vents

(Côté bâbord, les pieds sur terre
Côté tribord, idées légères
Les nuits s'emmêlent et le fuient)

Sur sa peau blanche
Constellations
Des points distincts
Géométriques
Le jour semblable à la brume

Entre ses bras
Entre ses bras
Un océan
Abrite des eaux pâles
Entre ses bras
Un océan
Où es-tu donc amarré ?

Oooooh... 
Les marées passent

Entre ses bras
Entre ses bras
Un océan
Abrite des eaux pâles
Entre ses bras
Un océan
Où es-tu donc amarré ?

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Lyrics, music and recording: Lux Absentiae
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Aux vents contraires

"Faut-il raison garder s'il n'y eut nulle mesure ?"

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Chemins de ronde

The Water
COVER by Lux Absentia

Original song: "The Water" by Johnny Flynn (*I don't own the rights of this song)

All that I have is a river
The river is always my home
Lord, take me away
For I just cannot stay
Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
With my dying

Please help me build a small boat
One that'll ride on the flow
Where the river runs deep
And the larger fish creep
I'm glad of what keeps me afloat

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
With my dying

Now deeper the water I sail
And faster the current I'm in
That each night brings the stars
And the song in my heart
Is a tune for the journeyman's tale

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
With my dying
Now the land that I knew is a dream
And the line on the distance grows faint
So wide is my river
The horizon a sliver
The artist has run out of paint

Where the blue of the sea meets the sky
And the big yellow sun leads me home
I'm everywhere now
The way is a vow
To the wind of each breath by and by

The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
With my dying

Lux Absentiae

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