Two - Lyrics - La Dispute
La Dispute is a prose comedy written by Pierre de Marivaux, shown for the first time on October 19, 1744, by the Théâtre-Italien in the Hôtel de Bourgogne. The story involves four orphans that have been raised in isolation, from the world and from each other. An aristocrat releases four human guinea pigs into a sinister Garden of Eden to cause them to consider the question of whether man or woman is more faithful.
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Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which I cannot touch because they are too near.
Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose.
Or if your wish be to close me, I and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending.
Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing.
(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
