Malice Mizer - Itsuwari no Musette

I had a hard time with this song in particular, partually because I don't know what a musetté is. I don't think it's an actual word in french. The closest is musette, without the accent, which means a horse muzzle and kind of makes sense here but probably shouldn't. It can also mean a dance, maybe. The music itself is interesting. When I first heard this song I had an image of an abandoned carnival, all in white. The members of the band were still working there. The carnival had been closed down but they had l gone home and realized they had nothing to do, so they all simply came back to work like they always had. In the end they gave a band performance to an empty room and comitted a group suiside using wires like the ones from "The Cube", which were little and thin and cut someone up into itty pieces. That mental movie will always be more important to me than the words, which seem to be about pan and circus (feed and entertain people and you can rule the world) and a bunch of puppet like people who have no clue that they are completely out of it. It's a kind of precursor to Bois de Merveilles.

Although, upon actually atempting to read it, it could be that musette really is a dance and the people really are puppets...

Itsuwari no Musetté*
music: Kozi
lyrics: Gackt.C
I still feel nothing at being made to dance But burn both hands that I had reached out And repeated the words, the truth to display these lies To whomever had seemed to be kind Odorasareru koto wa ima mou nani mo kanjinai Boku wa sashi-dashita ryoute o kogashite Kuri-kaesu kotoba wa uso o narabeta shinjitsu Yasashii kao shita dare ka ni kuri-kaesu I will sing the poetry of the world beneath a sun of lies And will sing till after even my body withers away Uso no taiyou no shita de daichi no shi o kuchi ni shite Boku no kono sugata sae kiete naku naru made I stretch up my palm to the sky and only now Remember merely a little of my forgotten pain, As I roll your letter in my hand, place it away in my pocket Without being able to tell anyone, it's only for me Tanagokoro o sora ni kazashite wasureta itami o ima dake Honno sukoshi omoidashite te no naka de korogasu Kimi kara no tegami o poketto ni shimatte Dare ni mo iezu boku dake no mono ni Even now those who rejoice cannot stop clapping It's as you see me, nothing but an adorned musette of falsities Yorokobu hito wa ima mo te o tataku koto o tomenai Sou boku wa kazarareta itsuwari no musette
The Mendacious Musette I had a hard time with this song in particular, partually because I don't know what a musetté is. I don't think it's an actual word in french. The closest is musette, without the accent, which means a horse muzzle and kind of makes sense here but probably shouldn't. It can also mean a dance, maybe. The music itself is interesting. When I first heard this song I had an image of an abandoned carnival, all in white. The members of the band were still working there. The carnival had been closed down but they had l gone home and realized they had nothing to do, so they all simply came back to work like they always had. In the end they gave a band performance to an empty room and comitted a group suiside using wires like the ones from "The Cube", which were little and thin and cut someone up into itty pieces. That mental movie will always be more important to me than the words, which seem to be about pan and circus (feed and entertain people and you can rule the world) and a bunch of puppet like people who have no clue that they are completely out of it. It's a kind of precursor to Bois de Merveilles. Although, upon actually atempting to read it, it could be that musette really is a dance and the people really are puppets...*
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