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olga neuwirth - scene xi "this dance is 'original' like a 'galop infernal'." lyrics

[male chorus]
this dance is “original” like a “galop infernal”. goodbye, we!
we head to the field as a triumph is in the air!
we’ve not lost our courage despite the dark trenches
almighty god of armies, march thou with our troops!

[orlando]
i am alone
…
i have sought happiness through many ages and not found it;
fame and missed it; love and not known it…
my hands shall wear no wedding ring. ah!
orlando? am i dead?

[shelmerdine & orlando]
madam, you’re hurt!
am i dead, sir?

[female chorus]
it only happens once
it does not happen again

was that your heart ticking below the earth?

[narrator]
they talked two hours or more;
it would profit little to explain what they said
for they know each other so well that they can say anything they like
which is tantamount to saying nothing
hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic
and the most poetic cannot be written down
[shelmerdine & orlando]
my name is shelmerdine (my name is orlando)
shelmerdine, (orlando, orlando) shelmerdine
shelmerdine, (orlando, orlando) shelmerdine
shelmerdine, (orlando, orlando) shelmerdine
i take pictures (i am a writer)
you know all of sh+lley’s works by heart
love is paradoxical. it’s toxic and it’s
you’ll, you’ll, you’ll, go, go to germany next
you will have my child
you’re a woman, shel! (you’re a man, orlando!)

…n+z+ invasion of great britain last autumn would have been a more or less improvised… that when france gave in we should give in… we must all be prepared to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks, and glider attacks, with constancy, forethought, and practiced sk!ll. in order to win the war hitler must destroy great britain… the many proud and once happy countries he is now holding down by brute force and vile intrigue are learning to hate the prussian yoke and the n+z+ name as nothing has ever been hated so fiercely and so widely among men before… here is the verse:

“…sail on, o ship of state!
sail on, o union, strong and great!
humanity with all its fears
with all the hopes of future years
is hanging breathless on thy fate!”

[shelmerdine & orlando & both]
are you, you, you, you
you, you, you, you, you positive you’re not a man?
(can, can, can, can)
(it, it, it be possible you’re not a woman?)
…
will you marry me?
do not leave me
i will offer you pearls or rainy words
let’s find a place for us!
do not leave me

- olga neuwirth lyrics

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