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Gay Bouquet

from When I was a Bird by Stepha Schweiger

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lyrics

Gay Bouquet
Words by Katherine Mansfield

She handed me a gay bouquet
Of roses pulled in the rain,
Delicate beauties frail and cold—
Could roses heal my pain?

She smiled: ‘Ah, c'est un triste temps!’
I laughed and answered ‘Yes,’
Pressing the roses in my palms.
How could the roses guess?

She sang ‘Madame est seule?’ Her eye
Snapped like a rain-washed berry.
How could the solemn roses tell
Which of us was more merry?

She turned to go: she stopped to chat;
‘Adieu,’ at last she cried.
‘Mille mercis pour ces jolies fleurs!’ …
At that the roses died.

The petals drooped, the petals fell,
The leaves hung crisped and curled.
And I stood holding my dead bouquet
In a dead world.

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from When I was a Bird, released May 29, 2020

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2023 Heroines of Sound Festival, 2022 The Moon Is No Door - band release - tour, 2020/21 When I was a Bird - album - maxi single, 2018/19 Now I'm a Plant, 2017/18/19: The Mark on the Wall - music theatre wp, 2018 musikprotokoll Steirischer Herbst. Avant-garde composer, pianist, electro, singer/songwriter, industrial, conceptual, krautrock, free jazz, psychedelic, postpunk, spectral, natural tuning ... more

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