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You, the cricket of the hearth, you the ideal spouse
You with nary a snag in your nuptial blouse
Intractable Penelope
As you follow your safe, innocent happiness
Do you not entertain, in your honorable breast
Some sweetly interloping dreams?
Some sweetly interloping dreams?

Shielded by your curtains, in your proper milieu
You await a suburban Ulysses’ return
Bent to your linen concentration
In the night when your soul feels melancholy’s dread
Have you not dreamt of skies seen from another bed
And counted a new constellation?
And counted a new constellation?

Have you never called out in your thoughts undeclared
For the meaningless fling that pulls you by the hair
And whispers sweet nothings in your face
And plants wild daisies in your vegetable plot
The forbidden fruit on the old orchard lot
And chaos in your silken lace?
And chaos in your silken lace?

Have you not wished to meet in passing once again
This angel, this demon, who with his bow in hand
Lets his malignant arrows fly
Who returns woman’s flesh to the coldest statues
Upends their pedestals and upsets their virtue
And rips their leaf right off the vine?
And rips their leaf right off the vine?

Do not fear that the sky will hold you to account
There’s not enough room here to swing a heart around
Beating a path to a distant fields
It’s the venial sin, the communal disgrace
It’s the dark hidden side of the honeymoon’s face
The ransom of Penelope
The ransom of Penelope

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from Bad Reputation Volume 1, released November 23, 2013
Recorded and mixed by Daniel Weintraub and Quentin Jennings at Hell's Kitchen Recording and Sous-Sol Re Sol, Brooklyn, New York.

Pierre de Gaillande – translations, vocals, guitar
Christian Bongers – bass
Tony Jarvis – bass clarinet, electric and acoustic guitars
Quentin Jennings – charango, xylophone, piano, wurlitzer, autoharp, shaker
David Spinley – clarinet, tenor saxophone

Additional musicians:
Keren Ann – vocals on To Die For Your Ideas and Ninety-five Percent
Dan Menke – drums on Penelope
Quentin Jennings, Daniel Weintraub, and Lucas van Lenten – backing vocals on Don Juan

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Pierre de Gaillande was born in Paris, France, raised in California, and lives in New York.

Currently, Pierre writes songs for and plays guitar in New York bands Open Kimono and Bad Reputation and composes music for film and television. ... more

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