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[annarti]

Because Sallie requested it, translated French parts of La Complainte de la Butte from the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack =3

The too-pale moon rests a crown on your red hair
The too-russet-red moon of glory splashes holes all over your skirt
The too-pale moon caresses the opal of your blasé eyes
Princess of the road comes with goodness into my broken heart

Little Mandigotte, I feel your shackles searching for my hand.
I feel your chest and your fine size.
I forget my worries.
I feel on your lips a smell of a malnourished child's fever.
And under your caress I feel an intoxication that destroys me.

And see how it trots, the floating moon, the princess as well
La da da da etc
My dreams open out

The stairs of La Butte are hard on the miserable people
The windmill wings protect the lovers.

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annarti: song sounds soooo much better in french XD;
drazzi: they always do XD
drazzi: but it's nice to know what it's about
annarti: it uses all this beautiful poetic language, but translated back into english... you get trot and intoxication oO
drazzi: indeed XDD
drazzi: aint that ALWAYS the way?
annarti: yes ><
annarti: english sucks