Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine (Official Video)

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Cécile McLorin Salvant's "Mélusine," the title song to her 2023 album, out now on Nonesuch Records: https://cecilemclorinsalvant.lnk.to/melusine

Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals
Daniel Swenberg, nylon string guitar

MÉLUSINE
(Cécile McLorin Salvant) 

I have fallen deep in love with you
True you are
Midnight blue you are
My solitude
Sometimes you wander
But when you go
You always return
I always know where to find you
When I close my eyes
I find you

How does the thorny devil drink the dew
From the sand
Where it never rains?
A skin with grooves
That gathers water
Between the grains
A skin that’s pulling
Against the pull of the earth
In a barren land
We make do

Il vit Mélusine dans son bassin
Sous son nombril
Elle avait l’air
D’être une femme
Peignant ses cheveux
Sous son nombril
Sa queue d’serpent
Avec laquelle elle battait l’eau
Qu’elle faisait gicler au plafond

He saw Mélusine in her tub
Above her navel she looked like a woman
Brushing her hair
Below her navel
Her snake’s tail
With which she beat water
That she splashed onto the ceiling

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