Radiant Night - Momus

I'm in love with Witold Gombrowicz

That sombre Polish man

I journey to the end of night

With Louis F Celine

But when I'm tired of reading novels

By melancholy authors

I bounce on an enormous trampoline

'Pornographia' 'Ferdydurke' the Polish avant garde

I find Schonberg's 'Verklarte Nacht'

The loveliest thing I've heard

But when I've lost my taste

For the highest and the best

I bounce I bounce I bounce with zest

I'm very fond of Karlheinz Stockhausen

'Musique Concrete' excites me

Luciano Berio inflames my entire being

But when I've left behind the

Passion for serial composition

I bite at an enormous tangerine

Giacomo Leopardi Stephane Mallarme

Diaghilev and Rilke Lou Andreas Salome

But when I've lost my taste

For the highest and the best

I bite I bite I bite with the best

I'm in love with Frederic Chopin

And Isabelle Adjani

I play Charlotte Gainsbourg

Bambou and Jane Birkin at my party

But when the radiant night is over

And the sun begins to shine

I kiss the simple lover who is mine

'Pornographia' 'Ferdydurke'

The Polish avant garde

I find Schonberg's 'Verklarte Nacht'

The loveliest thing I've heard

But when I've lost the taste

For the highest and the best

I kiss I kiss I kiss with zest

Giacomo Leopardi Stephane Mallarme

Diaghilev and Rilke Lou Andreas Salome

But when I've lost the taste

For the highest and the best

I laugh I live I love with the best