Radiant Night - Momus

I’m in love with Witold Gombrowicz

That sombre Polish man

I journey to the end of night with Louis F. Celine

But when I’m tired of reading novels by melancholy authors

I bounce on an enormous trampoline

'Pornographia', 'Ferdydurke', the Polish avant garde

I find Schšnberg's 'Verklarte Nacht' the loveliest thing I’ve heard

But when I’ve lost my taste for the highest and the best

I bounce, I bounce, I bounce with zest

I’m very fond of Karlheinz Stockhausen

'Musique Concrete' excites me

Luciano Berio inflames my very being

But when I’ve left behind my passion for serial composition

I bite at an enormous tangerine

Giacomo Leopardi,

Stephane MallarmŽ

Diaghilev and Rilke

Lou Andreas Salome

But when I’ve lost my taste for the highest and the best

I bite, I bite, I bite with zest

I’m in love with Frederic Chopin and Isabelle Adjani

I play Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou and Jane Birkin at my party

But when the radiant night is over and the sun begins to shine

I kiss the simple lover who is mine

'Pornographia', 'Ferdydurke', the Polish avant garde

I find Schšnberg's 'Verklarte Nacht' the loveliest thing I’ve heard

But when I’ve lost my taste for the highest and the best

I kiss, I kiss, I kiss with zest

Giacomo Leopardi, Stephane MallarmŽ

Diaghilev and Rilke, Lou Andreas Salome

But when I’ve lost my taste for the highest and the best

I laugh, I live, I love with the best