I've chosen the dark, I've chosen the night I've lost hope of loving a day of life The shades of night belong to me I am at one with hell Dead inside, I watch the time pass I wait the coming of my day My journeys are always within me There where is found the bottomless pit Where, there in I plunge, always a little deeper There, in that other world where only unity is harmony Sheltered from the regard and rules of men Their colour is absent, light is black Enemies of the sun, the phantoms of the shadows Have taught me to delight in horror Faces without eyes, and silent lips Float in the immensity of empty space A sweet melancholy fills my heart Life as a whole seems absurd Silence is so pure, so profound that it intoxicates The emptiness, annihilates all And nothingness takes its place