LE VEAU D'OR (SINGABLE TRANSLATION)

 This one is to an Apis image and emblem of Taurus ♉, materialism, capitalism: Sung by Mephisto in Gounod's Faust, with libretto or lyrics by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré: Le Veau d'Or (The Golden Calf)!

LE VEAU D'OR

Translated by Sandra Dermark 

14th of August MMXXIII 

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The Golden Calf stands always upright!!!

Its power grows by the hour

Its power grows by the hour

From end to end of Earth, all right!!!

To feast this image, fat and lazy,

royalty and peasants yield

to the sinister sound of shields

to dance in a circle, crazy...

All around its pedestal

All around its pedestal!!!

Master Satan leads the ball

Master Satan leads the ball 

Master Satan leads the ball 

Master Satan leads the ball!!!

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The Golden Calf is slayer of God!!!

In its derisory Glory

In its derisory Glory

It insults Heaven, loathly, odd!!!

It beholds, in strangest ire,

at its feet the human race,

storming forth in heedless race,

into blood, and mud, and mire,

where gold's glitter is to call,

where gold's glitter is to call!!!

Master Satan leads the ball 

Master Satan leads the ball 

Master Satan leads the ball 

Master Satan leads the ball!!!

LE VEAU D'OR (Literal translation)

 For once, a literal instead of singable translation! This one is to an Apis image and emblem of Taurus ♉, materialism, capitalism: Sung by Mephisto in Gounod's Faust, with libretto or lyrics by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré: Le Veau d'Or (The Golden Calf)!

LE VEAU D'OR

Translated by Sandra Dermark

14th of August MMXXIII

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The Golden Calf stands always upright!!!

They praise its power

they praise its power

from one end of the Earth to the other!

To feast the infamous image,

royalty and populace together,

to the ominous noise of shields,

they dance in a crazy circle

around its pedestal,

around its pedestal!!!

around its pedestal!!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

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The Golden Calf is slayer of God!!!

In its derisory Glory,

In its derisory Glory,

the loathly monster insults Heaven!!!

He beholds, oh strange rage!

At his feet the human race

storming forth, steel in hand,

into the blood and the mud

where the burning gold glitters,

where the burning gold glitters!!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!

And Satan leads the ball/is master of ceremonies!!