Marja Mattlar: Lintu (official audio)

Описание: From "Pariisi–Vuorenkylä" album (1993)
Lyrics & music: Marja Mattlar
Arranged by Gabriel Yacoub & Patrice Clementin
http://www.marjamattlar.net

Lyrics in English:

BIRD

I hardly knew her and yet
I came to meet her
and she is still so beautiful
when she turns to look at me.
"This night is my last"
I hear her saying.
"I am sick and tired
and so I want to go.
You already know something of life
and I know something too.
If you only dare give up your fears
you'll get your paradise back again."

She went on further with tears in her eyes
weighing out every word.
She held my hand tightly in her's
and looking into my eyes she said:
"I don't regret holding in my arms
those I really loved.
I am crying for all those I hurried past,
avoided and fled from.
Whenever I let someone come close to me
I myself felt closeness too.
But if I spared and protected myself
I got lost and froze."

Her gaze fades and she sighs,
she loosens her grip on my hand.
Then at the same moment I am dazzled
and the window flies open.
When I look at her again she has changed
into a bird before me
and I hold in my hand
a bird's clean white wing.
The bird rises and takes to the wing
as I remain alone where I am.
The shape is lost in the heights of the sky
and the room sighs with emptiness.

I sit still and remember
her last words.
I repeat them under my breath
now that she has gone her way:
"I don't regret holding in my arms
those I really loved.
I am crying for all those I hurried past,
avoided and fled from.
Whenever I let someone come close to me
I myself felt closeness too.
But if I spared and protected myself
I got lost and froze."