Dare I confess the truth; I’d rather die
And end the desolations of my heart
Than untold silken promises should lie.
Another’s perfume? Does it signify?
A hotel tab: ‘Room service à la carte’?
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die?
When doubts confound libido’s alibi,
And silence shouts, there’s no more stinging dart
Than untold silken promises should lie.
Though covert smiles resist the estranged eye
While ardent phones ring off before they start,
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die?
Deceived deceivers only multiply
The game that I’d give worlds to not outsmart
So untold silken promises can lie.
To share the burning secret we, thereby,
Abet a robbery. All that apart,
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die
Than untold silken promises should lie?
(Movie stills from Jacques Rivette’s Paris Nous Appartient, 1961. Françoise Prévost: ‘I don’t know why, but I know. We die because we are life.’)
And end the desolations of my heart
Than untold silken promises should lie.
Another’s perfume? Does it signify?
A hotel tab: ‘Room service à la carte’?
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die?
When doubts confound libido’s alibi,
And silence shouts, there’s no more stinging dart
Than untold silken promises should lie.
Though covert smiles resist the estranged eye
While ardent phones ring off before they start,
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die?
Deceived deceivers only multiply
The game that I’d give worlds to not outsmart
So untold silken promises can lie.
To share the burning secret we, thereby,
Abet a robbery. All that apart,
Dare I confess the truth I’d rather die
Than untold silken promises should lie?
(Movie stills from Jacques Rivette’s Paris Nous Appartient, 1961. Françoise Prévost: ‘I don’t know why, but I know. We die because we are life.’)
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| Anne (Betty Schneider) stalks Paris on a paranoid quest for the truth of a tragic love affair (Paris Nous Appartient 1961). |
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Finishing School for Versifiers (part 4)
Finishing School for Versifiers (part 5)
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