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Letzte Wache - Last Watch - Bonus Track

from Decollate by L'ACEPHALE

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Letzte Wache is a poem by the great German wordsmith Georg Heym (1887 – 1912) a leading poet of the expressionist movement akin to such luminaries as Rimbaud and Baudelaire. Here is a lament, a funerary dirge, a mournful passing. This is added to the Digital version of Decollate as a bonus track.

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Letzte Wache

Wie dunkel sind deine Scläfen,
Und deine Hände so schwer.
Bist du schon weit von dannen,
Und hörst mich nicht mehr.

Unter dem flackenden Lichte
Bist du so traurig und alt,
Und deine Lippen sind grausam
In ewiger Starre gekrallt.

Morgen schon ist hier das Schweigen
Und vielleicht in der Luft
Noch das Rascheln von Kränzen
Und ein verwesender Duft

Aber die Nächte werden
Leerer nun, Jahr um Jahr.
Hier wo dein Haupt lag, und leise
Immer dein Atem war.


Last Watch

How dark are your temples
And how heavy your hands.
Far now you have traveled
Where my words do not sound.

Under the flame that wavers
So sad and old you lie,
Your lips clenched forever
In bitter fixity

Tomorrow will come a silence
And the air hold a faint
Rustle still perhaps of garlands
And a decaying scent.

But hollower now year by year
Will nights be left
Here where your heal lay and always
You breathed so soft.

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from Decollate, released December 5, 2013

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