BLACK SEAWEED
(Les Goemons)
Translation by Lulu Norman, PG Imhof & Mick Harvey
Algae brown or red lays
Stirring neath the surface
Black wrack seaweed
My loves have been the same
All I can now reclaim
Is black wrack seaweed
Like flowers torn away
From the earth and in decay
Like black seaweed
Picked up and cast aside
By the sea after the tide
Black wrack seaweed
My wounds reawaken
To the crude gyration
Of black seaweed
God she was a beauty
A siren and her duty
Black seaweed
She had the sensuality
And the taste and smell
Of wrack seaweed
I stole her innocence
To the silent dissonance
Of wrack seaweed
Algae brown or red sways
Underneath the surface
Black wrack seaweed
My loves have been the same
All I can now reclaim
Is black wrack seaweed
Like flowers torn away
From the earth and in decay
Like black seaweed
Picked up and cast aside
By the sea after the tide
Black wrack seaweed