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La Reine du Marais

from Malheurmiel by Alturúk

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from Malheurmiel, released October 27, 2014
Ils sont appelé ignus fatuus, feu de fantomes,
qui se révelent a voyageurs perdus dans les marécages. Ne suivez pas ces apparitions, they will lead you far astray, into the realm of La Reine du Marais


Once quand j'etais un jeune fou, I did what you must not do:
I went wandering in the woods on a dark and moonless night
The trees grew tordu et squelettiques, and my legs, they soon turned weak,
For I realised I had entered a forbidden place:

La terre a tourné a la boue, the bog ruled by a mighty queen,
As beautiful as her realm is bleak
A swamp where mortal men all drown, ils sont perdus a jamais
Ils deviennent les sacrifices a la Reine du Marais

J'étais embourber
And I began to sink
Drowned corpses surrounded me
Pefectly preserved by the peat

Ces cadavres momifiés seemed to be reaching towards me
Perhaps trying to hasten my terrifying death
J'ai coulé encore plus, I did not know what to do
So I closed my eyes and tried to hold my breath
But then the feu fantome est retourné, I opened my eyes to see
A woman, who walked above the mire
She took my hand and raised me up above la fosse puante
As beautiful as this realm was bleak

And she said:

Come with me, you look tired and thirsty
I can give you a place to sleep
and a drink to quench your thirst,
Unlike anything you`ve ever tried before

So I went `vec elle
To her palais underneath the bog
And drank in her hall
Une boisson of smoke and fire,
the likes of which I`ve never tasted since

C'était fort, C'était fierce
It was not like rien else, Le whiskey scotch était parfait
'Vec La Reine du Marais

Her servants served another glass
We danced, we sang we drank and laughed
No more bière, ni de vin
Pore le whiskey once again!

Comme un feu qui nous étouffe
It must have been a hundred proof
I felt my senses start to leave
But it was no time to grieve
La Reine beckoned me to rise
And I noticed in her eyes
Une ombre de sourire
Un chose qu'elle ne veut pas dire



YA!
WHISKEY FORT!
In the court
de La Reine du Marais!

The night continued on and on
The servants played another song
I thought I'd get myself a glass
So I opened up the cask
And inside to my great horror
Was a mummifi'ed corpse
Perfectly preserved.


She smiled at me and said, "That's how we get the peaty taste."
And I'll tell you this, mes amis:

I loved it!
La saveur de marécage
Est très delicieuse
et revitalisante
And now that I have tasted it,
Nothing else can quite compare
Je ne vais jamais oublier
La Reine du Marais

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Alturúk is a solo recording project by Canadian musician Zac Baccardax. It combines his loves of heavy music, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, and working alone in a dark basement for weeks at a time.

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