vermeer - door eater lyrics
the bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds
memory as it grows fainter loosens them
and notwithstanding the illusion by which
we want to be duped and which, out of love
friendship, politeness, deference, duty
we dupe other people
we exist alone
man is the creature who cannot escape from himself
who knows other people only in himself
and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying
we exist alone
we exist alone
alone
the bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds
we exist alone
but sometimes illumination comes to our rescue
at the very moment when all seems lost
we have knocked at every door
and they open on nothing until, at last
we stumble unconsciously against the only one
the only one
through which we can enter
the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years
and it opens:
i felt myself still reliving a past
which was no longer anything more
than the history of another person
in all countries fools outnumber the rest
in all countries fools outnumber the rest
all that we can say is that everything is arranged in this life
as though we entered it carrying the burden of obligations
contracted in a former life
there is no reason inherent in the conditions of life on this earth
that can make us consider ourselves obliged to do good
to be fastidious, to be polite even
nor make the talented artist
consider himself obliged to begin over again
a score of times a piece of work
the admiration aroused by which will matter little
to his body devoured by worms
like the patch of yellow wall
painted with so much knowledge and sk!ll
by an artist who must for ever remain unknown
and is barely identified under the name vermeer
all these obligations which have not
their sanction in our present life
seem to belong to a different world
founded upon kindness, scrupulosity
self*sacrifice, a world entirely different from this
which we leave in order to be born into this world
before perhaps returning to the other
to live once again beneath the sway of those unknown laws
which we have obeyed because
we bore their precepts in our hearts
knowing not whose hand had traced them there
those laws to which every profound work
of the intellect brings us nearer
and which are invisible only — and still! — to fools
my sole consolation when i went upstairs for the night
was that mamma would come in and kiss me after i was in bed
but this good night lasted for so short a time
she went down again so soon
that the moment in which i heard her climb the stairs
and then caught the sound of her garden dress of blue muslin
from which hung little tassels of plaited straw
rustling along the double*doored corridor
was for me a moment of the utmost pain;
for it heralded the moment which was to follow it
when she would have left me and gone downstairs again
love is a striking example of how little reality means to us
the bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds
memory as it grows fainter loosens them
and notwithstanding the illusion by which
we want to be duped and which, out of love
friendship, politeness, deference, duty
we dupe other people
we exist alone
we exist alone
man is the creature who cannot escape from himself
who knows other people only in himself
and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying
he sat there silent, watching their love expire
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