PABLO NERUDA PROJECT song lyrics by Joel Sattler
by Joel Sattler


Based on 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda

PABLO NERUDA PROJECT song lyrics by Joel Sattler
Based on "Veinte Poemas de amor y una canción desesperada"
by Pablo Neruda

new title:
TWENTY LUST POEMS AND A CODA DESPAIR

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PUBIC ROSE song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[based on a translation of the first poem of
20 LOVE POEMS by Pablo Neruda]

body of woman
thigh white hills
you look like a world
in full surrender

my body works you
like a field hand
and makes the sun leap
from the depths of your gender

I was a tunnel
the birds flew out
and the night
chose to invade

to save my life
I made me a knife
like an arrow ring
a stone in sling

but now it's payback
and I love you
body of silk
of moss of milk

the ships of breast
the eyes that know
the pubic rose
voice sad and slow

pubic rose
my pubic rose
where she goes
nobody knows
where she been
nobody sent
who could guess
where she went ?

body of woman
I save your grace
my thirst without limit
my changable race

dark riverbeds
where thirst is infernal
worn out from lust
and pain eternal

pubic rose
my pubic rose
where she goes
nobody knows
where she been
nobody sent
who could guess
where she went ?

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WRAPT IN LIGHT song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[based on a translation of the second poem
of 20 LOVE POEMS by Pablo Neruda]

you wrapt in light mortal flame
pale you mourn just so just so
against propellers of the dusk
that spin around you go

mute my friend my friend my friend
alone in the hour of the dead
the life of fire at the end
child of the day demolish-ed

my lover wrapt in light
taking all the white within her
lover wrapt in light
this is only right

the sun drops bright on your dark dress
the great roots of the night
grow sudden from your soul
what's hidden in you comes to light
so that the blue and sallow town
born of you takes you down

oh grand and fertile magnet slave
circled black and gold come after
rise and shine creation make
so strong the flowers wilt in sadness

my lover wrapt in light
taking all the white within her
lover wrapt in light
this is only right

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THE SOLE BELL song lyrics
by Joel Sattler , Neruda 3

[based on a translation of the third poem
from 20 LOVE SONGS by Pablo Neruda]

the vast pine range, the waves break murmuring
the slow play of lights, the sole bell rings
and from your eyes the dusk falls, doll-ing
a terrestrial shell, in you the earth sings!

and rivers sing in you and so my soul flees
send where you will, so as you desire
aim your wish bow down my road please
my delirious flock of arrows fire

the sole bell rings
and rings and rings
the earth doth sing
and sings and sings

while all around your waist of fog
my hounded hours you hunt in silence
and you with arms of stone transparent
my kisses anchor, moist compliance

mysterious voice that tolls and stains
in the resonant falling evening dies
thus in deep hours I've seen on the plains
the wheat bending down as the mouth of wind cries

the sole bell rings
and rings and rings
the earth doth sing
and sings and sings

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THE HEART OF THE WIND song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[based on the fourth poem of
20 Love Songs by Pablo Neruda]

the morning is completely full of storm
full and stormy in the heart of summer

the clouds are hankies waving their goodbyes
the wind is waving to all the newcomers

above our loving silence beats
the heart of the wind beyond all number

the heart of the wind is beating
beating through the dawn
life is short and fleeting
and love is here and gone

and buzzing through the trees, orchestral and divine
is a language made of songs and war and thunder

wind that carries off what's left so quickly
deflecting arrows of the birds and hummers

wind that knocks her down like glassy waves
like matter without weight or fires all asunder

the heart of the wind is beating
beating through the dawn
life is short and fleeting
and love is here and gone

the surf of kisses breaks and is submerged
crashing in the door of the summer's wonder

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THE WORDS song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[based on the fifth poem of
20 Love Songs by Pablo Neruda]

so that your ears can hear me
I give my words an edge so thin
they are like seagull tracks in sand
on the beach of wind

drunk chile rattle necklace make
for your hands as soft as grapes

from afar I watch my words
words that are more yours than mine
watching as they scale my pain
climbing like an ivy vine

ascending same the humid walls
you're to blame for this blood game

fleeing from my darkened hall
you fill it up, you fill it all

before you peopled solitude
they were more used to grief than you

now I want them to say what I say
for you to hear them as plain as day

pounding winds still drag them round
hurricanes still dream them down

in my voice, there you hear others
crying mouths, bloodstained prayers
my girl-brother, do not leave me
follow in the wave that grieves me

but my words die with your love
and you take everything above

so I, an endless necklace make
for your white hands, smooth as the grape

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THE FALL OF MEMORY song lyrics Neruda 6
by Joel Sattler

[based on the sixth poem of
20 Love Songs by Pablo Neruda]

I remember you in the fall of memory
the beret was gray, the heart was cold
fire fought in your twilight eyes
and leaves fell in your water soul

like a vine crawling up my arms
leaves took up your voice so slow
stupified in bonfire thirst
sweet blue hyacinth all twisted oh

this was the fall of memory
where memory fell nothing could grow
what was real became a dream
and what was dream was over
what was dream was over

autumn is far and eyes travel farther
the voice of a bird and the heartbeat of home
going to where my desires were deepest
and kisses descended like red hot stones

sky from a ship, field from the hill,
remembrance of light. a pond in the trees
beyond your eyes burned the coming dusk
smoke and night and a whirlwind of leaves

this was the fall of memory
where memory fell nothing could grow
what was real became a dream
and what was dream was over
what was dream was over

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LEANT INTO AFTERNOON song lyrics NERUDA 7
by Joel Sattler

[based on the seventh poem of 20 LOVE POEMS by Pablo Neruda]

leant into afternoon
I cast sad nets into the ocean of your eyes

the highest fire grows and burns off loneliness
my arms become a castaway's

the water washes wind away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

I bloodshot your absent eyes
that move like the sea at the lighthouse shore

you keep sole darkness, my faraway girl,
from your dirty look, the dreadful coast comes forth

the water washes wind away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

leant into afternoon
I cast sad nets into the sea that's waving in your eyes

the night birds peck out the first stars
that shine like love that tries to rise

leant into after gloom
I cast sad nets into the sky but have no yield

the nightmare rides above the night
and sheds blue flower spikes across the fields

the water washes away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

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WHITE HONEYBEE song lyrics NERUDA 8
by Joel Sattler

[based on the eighth poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

white honeybee buzz in my soul
twisting in slow spiral smoke

I, desperado, the echoless call
who lost it all, who had it all

my last lifeline creaks in despair
the desert: you're the last rose there

o so silent

there is a silence beyond silence
where sound falls in a hole so black
silent silence beyond silence
where words are never coming back

close up the night in your deep eyes
make bare your body in disguise

deep eyes where the nightime goes
fresh flowers lap envelop rose

white breasts like little nautilus
dark butterfly sleeps in your guts

o so silent

and here you are absent, you are null
the raining hunts the lost seagulls

barefoot water walks wet streets again
in the trees, the leaves complain of the rain

white bee gone but her buzzing remains
you live again, so silent and plain

o so silent

there is a silence beyond silence
where sound falls in a hole so black
silent silence beyond silence
where words are never coming back


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YOU WERE ME AND I WAS YOU song lyrics NERUDA 9
by Joel Sattler

[based on the ninth poem of 20 Love Poems
by Pablo Neruda]

turpentine drunk with long kisses
sailing summer on the roses
twisting to the thin day death
cemented in marine psychosis

pallid lashed to hungry waters
the salty smell of naked zone
dressed in gray and bitter sound
crested with abandoned foam

inebriated kissing you
we made one heart out of two
I was you and you were me
you were me and I was you

hard riding on the perfect wave
moon and sun, hot and cold
sleeping in the lucky throat
white sand islands sweet and bold

trembling with the wet night kisses
shocked insane electric misses
dividing up heroic dreams
drunken roses practice me

upstream in the outer waves
parallel you in my arms
forever fishing stuck to soul
under sky both fast and slow

inebriated kissing you
we made one heart out of two
I was you and you were me
you were me and I was you


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BLUE LIGHT song lyrics NERUDA 10
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 10th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
By Pablo Neruda]

we've even lost the gloaming
holding hands in afternoon
no one saw us roaming
while down the world fell light so blue

from my window I have seen
the festival in the west end
sometimes like a coin it seems
the sun burned in my hand

blue light blue light
not day not night
fall in love with all your might
black is black and white is white

with my soul clenched in my fist
so I remembered you
of the sadness we had missed
that you knew in me too

so where o where were you ?
among the chosen few ?
what words were you saying ?
what was that you knew ?

love overwhelms me suddenly
when you are far away
I don't know why it makes me sad
I don't know what to say

the book that takes the twilight fell
my cloak rolled like a dog
you always leave the afternoons
where statues disappear like fog

blue light blue light
not day not night
fall in love with all your might
black is black and white is white

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NO LIMITS TO YOUR WINGS song lyrics NERUDA 11
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 11th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

almost sinking out of sky
half moon anchored tween two mountains
rotate in the wandering night
count the stars spread in the fountain

make a cross between my eyes
metal forge stalemated nights
heart spin like a loco wheel
woman coming out of light

flash of eyes under the sky
tempest blaming fury swirl
cross my heart and hope to die
tombstone cyclone breaking burl

uproot trees on either side
but you, so white, want smoke and spike
the wind made you from leaves in pyre
behind black hills white lily fire

but nothing nothing can I sing
for you were made of everything
there are no words a bell can ring
there are no limits to your wings

anxiety tore me apart
so time to take another road
to a place she does not smile
where my heart will not implode

the windstorm buried all the bells
tornado surged across the path
there's no need to touch her now
there's no need to make her sad

the trail away from all that is
no anguish, death or rivers run
with eyes that open through the dew
a place where winter never comes

but nothing nothing can I sing
for you were made of everything
there are no words a bell can ring
there are no limits to your wings

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IT IS MY HEART INSIDE OF YOU song lyrics NERUDA 12
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 12th poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

my heart beats in your chest
my wings are freedom mine
my mouth will reach the sky
what sleeps in you sublime

in you the dream of each new day
you come as dew to flower plays
you shake horizon when you're gone
forever flying like the waves

it is my heart inside of you
that beats one beat for every two
it can not be but still it's true
it is my heart inside of you

you sang in the wind I said
like pines or ships with many masts
as they are high and taciturn
then like a trip turn sad so fast

comfy like an old old road
that echoed voices people who
when I awoke migrating with
the little birds that slept in you

it is my heart inside of you
that beats one beat for every two
it can not be but it is true
it is my heart inside of you

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FLOWER OF NIGHT song lyrics NERUDA 13
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 13th poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

on the white atlas of your skin
I have been making crosses of fire
your mouth was a spider hiding within
thirsty afraid behind your desire

histories spoke at the edge of dusk
o sweet doll don't be so sad
a swan a tree a distant joy
the time of the grapes all grown and glad

flower of night flower of night

I have lived in the port from where I loved
in quiet solitude sound asleep
delirious silent between two frozen sailors
caught between the sadness and sea

smack in the middle of lips and the voice
something is dying it has no choice
something with the wings of a bird
anguish oblivion something unheard

flower of night flower of night

just as a fish net can hold no water
the scars of the teardrops remain behind
a song is climbing behind my mouth
wanting to celebrate joy that was mine

sing or burn, flee from the bell tower
that rings and rings as a madman tolls
my soft tristessa what are you doing?
when I reach the top the summit is cold

then my heart closes a flower of night
a flower of night my heart is closed

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WHAT SPRING DOES TO THE CHERRY TREES song lyrics NERUDA 14
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 14th poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

every day you play
the universe's light
visitor so delicate
in water flower white

you are like no one
that I've ever loved
I'll spread you out in yellow garlands
write your name above

and in letters made of smoke
among the southern stars
let me remind who you were then
before now what you are

suddenly the wind
howls up against the glass
the sky is only but a net
that holds the dark fish fast

the winds let go at last
at least that's what I know
soon or later comes to pass
the rain takes off her clothes

the birds go passing by
the wind the wind the wind
I can only only fight
against the stength of men

dark leaves swirl in storm
the wind gives out a cry
releasing all the fishing boats
the night tied to the sky

but you at last are here
you do not run away
you give an answer to my fear
as if you were afraid

however in your eyes
a shadow o so new
and now you bring me honeysuckles
scented just like you

and killing butterflies
the sad wind gallops south
and I am overwhelmed by love
and kiss your plum wine mouth

it hurt you to get used to me
my solitary soul
so wild my name would drive away
most anyone you told

the morning star so many times
we've seen it kiss our eyes
while overhead the twilight turns
lightening the skies

my words rained down upon you
stroking your soft skin
so long I've loved mother-of-pearl
your body made for sin

I think you own the universe
at least I guess what this is
I bring you bluebells from the mountains
baskets full of kisses

I want you to do to me
what flowers do to honey bees
I want to do to you
what spring does to the cherry trees

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ALLOW ME TO FALL song lyrics NERUDA 15
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 15th poem from 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

I like it when you're quiet
like a hush and you are gone
you hear me as if from a distance
and my voice then can do you no wrong

the tears have all flown away
and your mouth has been closed with a kiss
and as all the things you are fill my soul
so my soul is all filled up with this

and that is what it is
a butterfly of dreams
the word is melancholy
which is what it seems

I like it when you're still and quiet
like a hush and it's like you're not here
like a butterfly cooing compliant
and my voice is not clear to your ear

allow me to fall in your silence
free of all fear and all violence
a place where a sound can not leave
a place where belief can believe

let me speak to you without a word
just as bright as a lamp or a ring
you're like the night sky constellated
still as the stars and simple things

I like when you're quiet and you bluff
as if you had died sad and blue
but a word then, a smile is enough
and I'm glad o so glad it's not true

allow me to fall in your silence
free of all fear and all violence
a place where a sound can not leave
a place where belief can believe


SAD-EYED LADY OF THE STORM song lyrics NERUDA 16
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 16th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

you are as a cloud
in my twilight sky
and your color and your form
are just the way I like

you are mine mine mine
woman with sweet lips
and you live out your life
in my dreams infinite

o sad-eyed lady do not mourn
sad-eyed lady of the storm

the lamp that is my soul
turns color at your feet
the taste of sour wine
upon your lips is sweet

oh reaper of my sunset song
how lonely dreams do feel
you're mine you're mine I tell the wind
my widowed voice to heel

from the bottom of my eyes
the slayer doth arise
you steal the night your robbery
makes waterproof your sight

and for the music of my net
you are the prey my love
and music is itself a net
wide open up above

my soul is born upon the shore
the edge where eyes do weep
o sad-eyed lady mourn no more
go back to land of sleep

o sad-eyed lady do not mourn
sad-eyed lady of the storm

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WHO ARE YOU? song lyrics NERUDA 17
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 17th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

tangled in deep solitude the shadows try to think
and you're further away than ever were before
think to set free the birds and burying the lamp
the fading images fade, they fade and are no more

belfry of the mist
how far away up there
drowning lamentations
who knows who or where ?

who are you, who are you?
who are you, who are you?

grinding down our gloomy hopes
your face fell with the night
the miller taciturn
far from the city lights

your presence alien
so strange to me a thing
my path stretches before you
my life of struggling

I shout out at the sea
standing midst the stones
then running free and crazy
all in the surf alone

the fury sad and crying
the solitude of sea
unstoppable and violent
up to the sky and free

o woman what were you?
what ray what strike desire?
so distant like the new
the forest is on fire

blue crosses burning true
flaming up entire
cracking trees collapsing
fire fire fire !

and my soul dances too
seared by the curls of flame
who is calling who?
what echoes have a name?

this is a time of memory
a time of joy apart
my hour come at last
the horn sings in my heart

such passion knots me up
and shaken to the core
the waves assault my soul
and I roll forevermore

I hide the light inside
and ask the heavens why
who are you, who are you ?
who are you, who are you?

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HERE IS WHERE I LOVE YOU HERE song lyrics NERUDA 18
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 18th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

here is where I love you yet
where the dark pines were unwound
the moon shines on the wandering wet
chasing the same day around

the fog goes down on dancing shadows
silver gull slips from the sun
sometimes a candle held up high
is higher than the stars can run

o the black cross of a ship
sailing solo up and early
even my poor soul is wet
I hear the sea resounding surly

Here is where I love you here
this is a port the port is near
here is where I love you here
where the sky is blue and clear

here I love you and in vain
the horizon tries to hide you
still in love cold in the rain
here you know I am beside you

sometimes on these somber ships
my kisses take a ride along
but they fail to disembark
never knowing what was wrong

I see myself forgotten here
as these old anchors turned to rust
the docks are sad as afternoon
comes in and paints the sky with dust

my life grows hungry uselessly
I love what cannot come to be
you are so far away from me
I love you helplessly

my boredom struggles with the dusk
but night comes and it sings to me
the moon turns round as if it must
go ticktock like a clockwork dream

the biggest stars all have your eyes
the windy pines have my desire
to want to sing your name surprise
with their falling leaves of wire

Here is where I love you here
where the forest thick and green
here is where I love you here
where my life is but a dream

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A GIRL SO BROWN song lyrics NERUDA 19
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 19th poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

a girl so brown and agile
the sun that makes the fruit
the one that turns the wheat
the algae twisted root

that made your body joyful
your eyes so bright and wild
and your shining face
that has the water smile

a black and yearning sun
is wound upon the strands
of the black mane of your hair
as you stretch out your hands

and you play with the sun
as if it were a stream
your eyes become dark pools
who knows what they have seen ?

a girl so brown and agile
no longer drawn to you
you're driving me away
as if you were the noon

you are delirious
just like a drunken wave
like a young honeybee
the ear of wheat so brave

my somber heart still seeks you
I love your happy body
your skinny flowing voice
like water sun and poppy

like water and the poppy
the wheat field and the sun
the river of your body
your flesh is on the run

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THE WIND THAT BRINGS THE NIGHT song lyrics NERUDA 20
by Joel Sattler

[based on the 20th poem of 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

I can write the saddest I can write
tonight just for example "Here the stars
so deep out in the distance shivered blue
are almost out of sight they are so far"

the wind that brings the night
turns in the sky and sings

I can write the saddest write tonight
I loved I know sometimes she loved me too
on nights like this I had her in my arms
and kissed her under endless skies of blue

she loved me
and sometimes I loved her back
how could I not
have loved those eyes of black ?

I can write tonight a verse so sad
to think I do not have her feeling bad
I hear the night immense and growing fast
my verse falls like the dew into the grass

the wind that brings the night
turns in the sky and sings

no matter that my love just couldn't keep her
the night is full of stars and she is gone
I know that that is all I know I know
but in the night the singing still goes on

I try to see her now as if to come
my heart looks for what never will be where
the same night making white the same old ones
but we are not the same as we were there

it's true I do not want her anymore
but how I loved her wanting her so near
I want to feel the way I felt before
my voice searches the wind to touch her ear

another's she will always be another's
like before the kisses changed our lives
how endlessly her voice how bright her body
how infinite it seemed it were her eyes

because on nights like this I held her tight
because my soul just cannot stand to lose
although this is the last pain that I write
these are the last verses that I choose

the wind that brings the night
turns in the sky and sings

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A SONG OF DESPERATION song lyrics NERUDA CODA
by Joel Sattler

[based on the coda to 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

from night surrounds your memory
the river merges tears with sea
deserted like the wharves at dawn
abandoned now I take my leave

flower heads on my heart rain
the pit the shipwrecked castaways
in you were wars and flyaways
the songbird rose up in your day

you swallowed all of it like distance
like the sea and time you turned
the happy hour of assault
the kiss that like a lighthouse burned

the pilot's dread the diver's fury
muddy drunkenness above
everything you sank within you
you shipwrecked everything I love

in the fog of childhood I
my soul was winged like a dove
and wounded lost explorer died
you shipwrecked everything I love

and still you still hung on to the pain
but still you still desired blood
the sadness fell and falls upon you
you shipwrecked everything I love

I made the shadow wall go back
I walked beyond desire and act
o flesh my flesh my woman lost
I sing the hour count the cost

like a jar you filled my heart
with a love that could not last
and infinite oblivion
shattered you like bottle glass

in the black solitude of islands
there you took me in your arms
you were the fruit of all my hunger
the miracle that did me harm

o woman how could you contain me
in the land that was your soul
on the cross that were your arms
in the heart you did enfold

my lust was terrible and brief
both drunk and wired up with grief
boneyard of kisses fiery lies
the birds peck at my burning eyes

biting kissing hungry teeth
bodies wrapped up under sheets
the crazy copulation blues
knotting up the me and you

and the sweetness dusted light
as flour or as water does
a whispered word that was my fate
you shipwrecked everything I love

you took in everything inside you
you squeezed the pain out of the ground
the waves washed up and down beside you
and in the waves you could not drown

from crest to crest you called and sang
you standing like a sailor brave
in songs you thrived you were alive
much more than all the hurt you gave

unlucky slinger pale blind diver
lost explorer of what was
discoverer now undiscovered
you shipwrecked everything I love

and now it's time to leave at last
the hard cold hour come to pass
the belt of sea girdles the shore
the stars emerge the black birds soar

abandoned like the wharves at dawn
the shadows twist my hands in tandem
now it's time that we be gone
abandoned we are both abandoned

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