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The Dancing Snake

from Baudelaire & Piano by Susanna

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lyrics

The Dancing Snake

My languid darling, how I love
To see the silken sheen,
When your body stretches and ripples
Your shimmering skin!

I breathe the tang of the ocean
In the deeps of your hair,
A shifting mass of blue and brown,
A sea itself; and there,

Like a sleeping ship that awakens
As the morning breezes rise,
My dreaming soul casts off and sets
Its course for distant skies.

Your eyes that speak of nothing,
No sweet or bitter end,
Are two cold precious jewels
Where gold and iron blend.

The loose and lovely cadence,
The rhythm of your walk,
Is like a snake who dances
At the end of a stick.

(….)

And your body bends and stretches
Like a slim ship that braves
The sea it rolls and pitches,
With yards tipping the waves.

And when, like the glacier melting
To swell a mountain stream,
Saliva rises in your mouth
And brims your teeth, it seems

As if I drank Bohemian wine,
Tangy, invasive, tart,
A liquid sky that sends a rain
Of stardust on my heart!

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from Baudelaire & Piano, released September 11, 2020
Susanna - piano and vocals
Music by Susanna
Lyrics by Charles Baudelaire
Translation by Anthony Mortimer

Recorded at Atlantis Studio Stockholm by Janne Hansson
Mixed and mastered at Audio Virus LAB Oslo by Helge Sten

Produced by Deathprod and Susanna
Cover art by Marjorie Cameron
Permission by Cameron-Parsons Foundation
and OTO Archives
Lay out by Johanna Blom
Label SusannaSonata

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The Norwegian artist Susanna has released albums as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna Wallumrød since 2004 on labels like Rune Grammofon/ECM/Grappa Musikkforlag and since 2011 on her own label SusannaSonata. Critically acclaimed for both her own songs and her highly personal interpretations of other people's songs. ... more

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