Paul Amlehn - Libretto, composition, arrangement, production
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Visual art
Libretto:
Scene 1
"Only in the first hours of the night
Can I transform myself into human form
While the male dove is busy
With the twelve dead.
Numb
Or
Foam-like.
I see you in the forever."
Scene 2
"Silent remembering
I, close to you
Ever more ignoble and supine
Against the wall of the reddening sky.
Flayed name
Ancient evil transposed in present time
Resolute grid of the user's body
Addicted to nothingness.
Precise form of accident
You from death
The brutal enigma of your smite
On the slopes with powder of coral
In hideous night."
Scene 3
"You are my little baby.
Come to me.
I'll take care of you.
I won't let anyone hurt you.
You have always
Looked for something of me
In the world
And now you have found me.
Here I am
Waiting for you."
Scene 4
"This night wounds time.
Shall I silently call you?
You silently answer.
Still heard.
Still felt.
You are not too late.
I was there tomorrow.
Noxious windless night.
Subtle enigmas loiter.
Where the sense trespass.
Oh, that look in your eye.
It's true.
The lie."
Scene 5
"North
Towards the white pole,
South
Towards the red heron,
The pulse beats wild and straight.
Beloved muse,
Threshold of my longing,
It is you who makes my soul flicker
Like a curtain of stars.
In the well of time the years multiply their swarm.
O,
You,
My loveless traitor,
Must you torture me still?
Open my chest
You will see it is full of snow
The snow of your name
Covering stamens of blood.
I will make you feel
What you do not want to feel.
...Seen for the last time."