top of page

So I Smile (Damnatio Memoriae)

Islème Sassi (2014)

Half of my life I can’t remember

The other half of my life

I was walking in the darkness, my eyesight useless

I was blindfolded, I blame you

Mother of confusion, don’t it bother you

I was blind and so were you wer blind

Leading me in circles, it don’t matter now

 

I passed severe judgment on you

I cast an evil spell on you

Now at last I start to let go

 

So I smile at you passing by

I can see you wonder why

You don’t mean not a thing to me

I am walking free

 

Did you never think of me becoming older

Did you never muse about all the things I told you

So I tried all day long, at night, I know we both cried

I still remember well

It was bad, for no apparent reason it all turned out so sad

 

But I condemn your memory

To eternal oblivion

I know you never wanted to do the things you did to me

But you still did them to me, did you not?

I know you still love and you say you always have

But what good is that to me I wonder

Believe me, with a past like this

The best thing that can happen to you and me:

damnatio memoriae

She will put us to rest.

bottom of page