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"Fleurs Du Mal"

Is it you I keep thinking of?
Should I feel like I do?
I've come to know that I miss your love
While I'm not missing you
We run
Til it's gone
Et les fleurs du mal
Won't let you be
You hold the key to an open door
Will I ever be free?

Les fleurs du mal unfold
Comme les fleurs du mal
Dark demons of my soul
Un amour fatal
Been tryin' hard to fight
Comme les fleurs du mal
Les fleurs du mal inside
Un amour fatal

All my life I've been waiting for
In this perfume of pain
To forget when I needed more
Of love's endless refrain
We live
And we pray
Pour les fleurs du mal
I've lost my way
What is done will return again
Will I ever be free?

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about 21 hours later

Michael said

What a powerful, defiant pose! “Fleurs Du Mal” - equally powerful and full of emotion. The inner conflict… Thank you for sharing, joanna!

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Michael said

“It was his Fourth Concerto, the last work he had written. The crash of its opening chords swept the sights of the streets away from her mind. The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion. It was a 'NO' flung at some vast process of torture, a denial of suffering, a denial that held the agony of the struggle to break free. The sounds were like a voice saying: There is no necessity for pain - why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity? - we who hold the love and the secret of joy, to what punishment have we been sentenced for it, and by whom? … The sounds of torture became defiance, the statement of agony became a hymn to a distant vision for whose sake anything was worth enduring, even this. It was the song of rebellion - and of a desperate quest.”

-Ayn Rand

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JOANNA said

hmmm .. whose concert is she writing about?

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Michael said

She is writing about Richard Halley's fictional Fourth Concerto from Atlas Shrugged. Probably not as good as his Fifth Concerto. ;-)

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JOANNA said

i read ABOUT this book. since i know how many pages it has.. maybe i will read it when i retire. still have few years left :) but even if i am very fascinated by something that has 100 chapters i usually lose interest somewhere between chapter 91st and 95th , as it was in case of gormenghast