mi passione, mi fevore

cuore is actually reading the CD booklets, cover to cover. I particularly like La Celestina - playful, dark, sharp.

Lhasa's lyrics are- magical, intense, dark, "full of shadows". Reminiscent of Fado music. So moving...


La Celestina

"She loves, hates, treats well, mistreats
and Woman is, in the end, like the bloodletting
that sometimes bring good health
and sometimes kills"
-Human Rhymes, CXCI: Lope de Vega

Little One stay with me awhile
Why are you dragging that
misfortune with you?
Wait a minute and I'll untie you
What a tangle you've gotten
yourself into, Child!

The facts you guess at are so bitter!
The rounds of memory so dark!
And as for your Crown of Thorns
It fits, but you're going to have to pay!

With your look of an offended beast
and your bandage where there is no wound
With your sighs of a martyred mother
You'll scare away your last hope

Make of your fist a kindly thing
Make your 'Good-Bye' and 'Oh, My Love!'
Make of your scowl, a little smile
And your escape, a 'Here I come!'

How sad it makes me, Little One,
to see you neglect that body
So ready, you poor fool, to devote your life
to the Eternal Dissection of a Peccadillo

Woman, Undress and be still
It's you the Arrow's after
And Man is, in the end, like the bloodletting
That sometimes brings good health
and sometimes kills you
Man is, in the end, like the bloodletting
That sometimes brings good health
And sometimes...