Between love and death

Перевод с французского
Авторы оригинала: текст - Roger Tabra, музыка - Simon Leclerc
Оригинальное название Entre l'amour et la mort
Из мюзикла "Дракула - между любовью и смертью"

1
Why should I live? That’s not a life
There’s no reason to draw breath
I hurt my heart with edged knife
In subtle trap of love and death

Why should I live ? No one can grant
Me freedom. I was doomed to mesh…
I am a carnivorous plant.
My soul is captured by my flesh

I never see the light of day
I’m not a body, just remains,
For love and death have forged my chains
But who will save me from decay
In awful ruthless universe
That burns under an evil curse?

2
I’m dying now and again
I want to touch your silky skin
But you’re too far to feel my pain
I am the last one of my kin

Yet my revenge will be of might
I’ll drown them in their blood
I will become an endless night,
An earthquake and a Noah’s Flood

My soul is crying like a bird…
One thousand bites will pay your kiss
I love you… Can it be amiss?
But will you come back to this world
Or was your promise just a lie?
And you prefer to let me die?
3
In their future I can see
The fields, where nothing can be sowed
The men, who keep destroying trees,
While Sun is threatening to explode

I see white iron birds are seized
By crazy people… how odd!
They bring their brothers to their knees
And swear by the name of God.

I hear what the deaf may hear:
The cries of wind, the sobs of rain
Why should I live – it’s all in vain…

And everything around me here
May turn to everlasting dust
But love and death are too robust