WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.250 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:04.890 align:middle line:84% Perhaps, now, close to better than. 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:07.590 align:middle line:90% Another musical poem. 00:00:07.590 --> 00:00:10.340 align:middle line:84% Franz Schubert, a press conference. 00:00:10.340 --> 00:00:13.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:16.700 align:middle line:90% Yes, my life was short. 00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:20.510 align:middle line:84% Yes, I laughed, felt a light growing. 00:00:20.510 --> 00:00:24.860 align:middle line:84% Yes, under my fingers, sparks were born. 00:00:24.860 --> 00:00:26.900 align:middle line:90% Yes, I had little time. 00:00:26.900 --> 00:00:29.840 align:middle line:90% I didn't know how much. 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:35.750 align:middle line:84% I pitied Gretchen, that youth, the unrequited. 00:00:35.750 --> 00:00:38.580 align:middle line:90% No, the flame wasn't mute. 00:00:38.580 --> 00:00:45.410 align:middle line:84% Yes, I ran through icy forests chased by snow, yellow stars, 00:00:45.410 --> 00:00:49.850 align:middle line:84% and by the strangeness of style itself. 00:00:49.850 --> 00:00:52.670 align:middle line:90% No, not the police. 00:00:52.670 --> 00:00:55.820 align:middle line:90% I don't know if it was a devil. 00:00:55.820 --> 00:01:00.020 align:middle line:84% There was no epoch, only the green grass, ash trees, 00:01:00.020 --> 00:01:05.690 align:middle line:84% becalmed objects, dragonflies over pants, but no epoch. 00:01:05.690 --> 00:01:10.550 align:middle line:84% A wooden floor, reticent chairs, reticent. 00:01:10.550 --> 00:01:13.610 align:middle line:90% 00:01:13.610 --> 00:01:17.840 align:middle line:84% Yes, Vienna, the taste of coffee, same as now, 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.750 align:middle line:90% pigeons on the window sills. 00:01:20.750 --> 00:01:24.470 align:middle line:84% No, I didn't foresee the spring tide of nations. 00:01:24.470 --> 00:01:26.810 align:middle line:90% I don't know, don't remember. 00:01:26.810 --> 00:01:29.420 align:middle line:90% This question is too personal. 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:33.470 align:middle line:84% No, I am not familiar with Wagner's music. 00:01:33.470 --> 00:01:35.480 align:middle line:90% Can we communicate? 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.150 align:middle line:90% Regret, even envy. 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:42.890 align:middle line:84% I don't know whether it is fate, a glove. 00:01:42.890 --> 00:01:45.320 align:middle line:84% Such a delicate snowflake if only 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:50.690 align:middle line:84% they don't turn into a blizzard, the green eyes of that girl. 00:01:50.690 --> 00:01:53.750 align:middle line:84% My destiny was too big like a tent. 00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:59.450 align:middle line:84% My heart throbbed so clumsily in those huge rooms. 00:01:59.450 --> 00:02:04.760 align:middle line:84% Yes, talent, teeth crushing bitter coffee beans. 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:06.710 align:middle line:90% No, I was afraid. 00:02:06.710 --> 00:02:09.380 align:middle line:90% I was surrounded on all sides. 00:02:09.380 --> 00:02:14.810 align:middle line:84% The armies of mercenaries charged straight at me. 00:02:14.810 --> 00:02:20.630 align:middle line:84% Ah, gentlemen, how could you compare me to Admiral Nelson? 00:02:20.630 --> 00:02:26.270 align:middle line:84% No, shadows bellowed, whispers spilled like cathedral bells, 00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:28.460 align:middle line:90% appearances barked. 00:02:28.460 --> 00:02:31.800 align:middle line:84% Yes, I admit I was wrong sometimes. 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.850 align:middle line:84% How could I know that I was Schubert? 00:02:34.850 --> 00:02:40.040 align:middle line:84% I was in the state of becoming, looked for a way, a color. 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:43.940 align:middle line:90% You can't know me, only an echo. 00:02:43.940 --> 00:02:50.120 align:middle line:84% Yes, I was in that strait where suffering changes into song. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.870 align:middle line:84% Yes, evergreen forests and unrequited 00:02:53.870 --> 00:02:58.130 align:middle line:84% love, the joy of being indifferent. 00:02:58.130 --> 00:03:02.780 align:middle line:84% Precisely, I wanted to say the happiness of expression, 00:03:02.780 --> 00:03:06.060 align:middle line:90% halfway between life and death. 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:07.700 align:middle line:90% Exactly halfway. 00:03:07.700 --> 00:03:11.510 align:middle line:84% Yes, even here the cheers of dancing people 00:03:11.510 --> 00:03:16.400 align:middle line:84% reach us by the clot in the gelatin of memory. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:17.840 align:middle line:90% Don't turn back. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.720 align:middle line:90% Don't take the wrong direction. 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:26.720 align:middle line:84% But of course, you can't transform life into a lead. 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:29.990 align:middle line:84% It's only a very small Noah's Ark. 00:03:29.990 --> 00:03:34.730 align:middle line:84% You know, gentlemen, not people but species, not 00:03:34.730 --> 00:03:37.940 align:middle line:84% flowers but specimens, not fragrances 00:03:37.940 --> 00:03:43.310 align:middle line:84% but descriptions while we ran wild in the meadow's luxury. 00:03:43.310 --> 00:03:48.650 align:middle line:84% In weeds and in wind, in dandelions and anemones, 00:03:48.650 --> 00:03:52.490 align:middle line:84% in the huge plural of sounds and colors, 00:03:52.490 --> 00:03:56.000 align:middle line:84% passionate and speechless, submissive 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.970 align:middle line:84% to the demands of breathless messengers 00:03:58.970 --> 00:04:02.300 align:middle line:84% and jubilation and sin and prayer. 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:07.220 align:middle line:84% Morning and evening and boredom and laughter, the eternal dance 00:04:07.220 --> 00:04:08.120 align:middle line:90% lasted. 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:13.310 align:middle line:84% So many things were happening-- fear and games, cut fingers, 00:04:13.310 --> 00:04:17.300 align:middle line:84% gaping mouths, real kisses, and kisses only 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:23.960 align:middle line:84% in daydreams, brace years of wheat, your glances, a veranda, 00:04:23.960 --> 00:04:28.340 align:middle line:84% silence and nothing, the crimson of the foal. 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:34.280 align:middle line:84% Yes, I remember everything-- larks on long threads, puppies, 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:38.300 align:middle line:84% a hazel grove, the warm brick of the city, 00:04:38.300 --> 00:04:43.050 align:middle line:84% the voices fading in the dusk and night, 00:04:43.050 --> 00:04:46.430 align:middle line:84% a box in which children hide their treasures, 00:04:46.430 --> 00:04:51.440 align:middle line:84% the sleep and the vigil, Venus, and the pale sky shivering 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:53.000 align:middle line:90% from cold. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.540 align:middle line:90% Yes, it is even better now. 00:04:56.540 --> 00:05:01.100 align:middle line:84% Only two lips talk to themselves in the singing. 00:05:01.100 --> 00:05:05.420 align:middle line:84% A piano nearby in its gleaming tuxedo. 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:08.930 align:middle line:90% Yes, I am tired now. 00:05:08.930 --> 00:05:12.990 align:middle line:90% And no, it's not a complaint. 00:05:12.990 --> 00:05:14.489 align:middle line:90%