7 septembre 2008

When the light appears..By Allen Ginsberg

Photo: Ginsberg and friend in Varanasi (formerly Benares), India, 1963.
© Allen Ginsberg/Corbis

"Je vais essayer de prononcer des paroles audacieuses, et je veux que vous essayiez d'écouter audacieusement. Allen Ginsberg"

You'll bare your bones you'll grow hou'll pray you'll only know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You'll sing & you'll love you'll praise blue heavens above
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You'll whimper & you'll cry you'll get yourself sick and sigh
You'll sleep & you'll dream you'll only know what you mean
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You'll come & you'll go, you'll wander to and fro

You'll go home in despair you'll wonder why'd you care
You'll stammer & you'll lie you'll ask everybody why
You'll cough and you'll pout you'll kick your toe with gout
You'll jump you'll shout you'll knock your friends about
You'll bawl and you'l deny & announce your eyes are dry
You'll roll and you'll rock you'll show your big hard cock
You'll love & you'll grieve & one day you'll come believe
As you whistle & you smile the lord made you worhwhile
You'll preach and you'll glide on the pulpit in your pride
Sneak & slide across the stage like a river in high ride
You'll come fast or come on slow just the same you'll never know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
May 3, 1987, 2:30 A.M.

Tu te mettras à nu tu grandiras tu prieras tu comprendras
Pour sûr mon gars, quand tu verras la lumière
Tu chanteras & aimeras tu remercieras le ciel
Pour sûr mon gars, gand tu verras la lumière
Tu vas gémir & sangloter, te rendre malade et soupirer
Tu dormiras tu rêveras tu comprendras ce que tu voulais
Pour sûr mon gars, quand tu verras la lumière
Tu vas aller & venir, tu vas errer de-ci de-là
T'enfermer chez toi pour souffrir te disant à quoi bon tout ça
Tu bégayeras & mentiras demandant à chacun pourquoi
Tu tousseras tu seras bougon tu auras de la goutte aux arpions
Tu vas bondir hurler ta rage engueuler ton entourage
Tu vas brailler & nier que tes yeux ont jamais pleuré
Tu danseras le rock comme un furieux, tu brandiras ta grosse queue
Tu aimeras tu pâtiras & un beau jour tu siffloteras
T'apercevant tout heureux que tu es une réussite de Dieu
Tu prêcheras tout fier du haut de ta chaire
Tu débouleras sur scène puissant comme une rivière
Que tu sois rapide ou lambin c'est pareil tu n'en sauras rien
Pour sûr mon gars, quand tu verras la lumière
3 mai 1987, 2 h 30 du matin

Allen Ginsberg - Cosmopolitan greetings, Poèmes 1986-1992, pp. 62-63

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiH9QZzGc_s
BOB DYLAN ALLEN GINSBERG from The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg by Jerry Aronson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6l_smqPvg0
Allen Ginsberg – Photomontage and his “America” – Music by Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-pmFZJtS4E
Allen Ginsberg – Father Death Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3nZok0U0c
Memorial Reading with Patti Smith and Philip Glass from The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg plus Allen Ginsberg singing William Blake by Jerry Aronson