An Unofficial Keiji Haino Homepage -- Lyrics

An Unofficial Keiji Haino Homepage
Lyrics
Pathetique

All lyrics written by Keiji Haino
English Translations by Alan Cummings


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photo: Satoh Jin


I

To those awakened and directionless
wandering towards yonder abyss
I say "not that way"



II

Not born to atone
yet when I breathe
the first transgression, he bursts in



III

The flaw itself which has been born
can become bigger than the flaw which bore it
Because I myself loved too much the universe itself
saying "I love you"
I will continue to curse myself



IV

The confession of the being not to come into being
continues to sound within myself
The confession of the being not to come into being
continues to sound within myself
The confession of the being not to come into being
continues to sound within myself



V

Inside me made pregnant
the idea that "it has not begun"



VI

Given to me, permitted to me
the sole share, a melancholy treat
even when I become thus, still I continue to think



to those awakened, wandering toward yonder abyss, I say, 'not that way'