It's sad but it's true

 Je n'avais jusqu'alors jamais réussi à regarder un film de Leos Carax en entier, le bouche-à-oreille et l'affiche d'Annette (Adam Driver + the Sparks) auront suffi à rompre la malédiction... tout en confirmant que je n'ai décidément pas d'atomes crochus avec ce réalisateur (surtout s'il décide de teinter son film d'un vert moche). Bien sûr, la destinée de Henry McHenry, Ann et Annette touche, avec pour point d'orgue cette dernière scène/chanson, et la dureté de ses paroles.

 

[Henry:]

I'll sing these words to you

I hope they will ring true

They're not some magic chimes

To cover up my crimes

Annette, of this I'm sure

Imagination's strong

And reason's song

Is weak and thin

We don't have long

I stood upon a cliff

A deep abyss below

Compelled to look, I tried

To fight it off, God knows I tried

This horrid urge to look below

But half-horrified

And half-relieved

I cast my eyes

Toward the abyss, the dark abyss

I heard a ringing in my ears

I knew my death knell's ugly sound

The overbearing urge to gaze

Into the deep abyss, the haze

So strong the yearning for the fall

Imagination's strong

And reason's song

Is weak and thin

We don't have long

[Annette:]

I'll never sing again!

Shunning all lights at night

I'll never sing again!

Smashing every lamp I see

I'll never sing again!

Living in full darkness

I'll never sing again!

A vampire forever!

Annette! No! No, no!

Annette, Annette, no

I sang these words to you

Can I forgive what you have done?

I hope that they'd ring true

And will I ever forgive Mom?

Imagination is so strong

Her deadly poison I became

And reason's song is never strong

Merely a child to exploit!

Imagination is so strong

Forgive you both?

And reason's song

Forget you both?

So faint and shrill

To take that oath?

I stood above the deep abyss

To take that oath?

Why should I now forgive?

Why should I now forget?

I can never forgive!

I can never forget!

Both of you were using me for your own ends

For your own ends

Not an ounce of shame

The two of you, you're both to blame

I wish that both of you were gone

Wish you were gone!

No don't blame Ann!

Wish you were gone!

Annette that's wrong

Wish you were gone!

No don't blame Ann!

Both of you gone!

But is forgiveness the sole way

This horrid urge to look below

When all has gone so far astray

God knows I tried, to fight it off

To extract the poison from one's heart

Half-horrified, and half-relieved

And from one's soul, I can't be sure

I cast my eyes down the abyss

Forgive the two of you or not?

I take this oath

Sympathy for the dark abyss

Forgive you both?

I take this oath

Sympathy for the dark abyss

I take this oath

Forgive you both?

Or forget you both?

Don't cast your eyes down the abyss

Annette please don't

I must be strong

I must be strong!

Now, you have nothing to love

Why can't I love you?

Can't I love you?

Now, you have nothing to love

Can't I love you, Annette?

No, not really, Daddy, it's sad but it's true

Now you have nothing to love

Annette, my Annette...

Never cast your eyes down the abyss

Goodbye, Annette

Goodbye, Annette

Goodbye, Annette

Goodbye, Annette

Goodbye

Leos Carax, Annette (2021)

Sparks, Sympathy for the Abyss (2021)