Little Shangri-La [English translation]

Your eyes are sponges

Your hands are prisons

From which your lovers escape

And only leave their shadows behind

Freddy Krueger1

Scratches at your window

Dyed black doves

Ride nightmare horses

And if you close your eyes

Without a doubt, you’ll wake up

In the place you want

Your little Shangri-La

Chase them, chase them

In a memory lapse

Go on, make yourself at home

Your little Shangri-La

In the long corridors

Of a little, porcelain white pharmacy

The music is atrocious, out of breath

And you are invisible

You’re not invincible like the insects

Chirping at the door to your room

Where you squeeze that pillow tightly

So that it turns into somebody

And if you close your eyes

Without a doubt, you’ll wake up

In the place you want

Your little Shangri-La

Chase them, chase them

In a memory lapse

Go on, make yourself at home

Your little Shangri-La

1. Les griffes de la nuit is the title of Nightmare on Elm Street in French, which literally means "the claws of the night." To make the meaning of these two lines more easily and immediately comprehensible to native English speakers, I chose to use Freddy Krueger's name rather than a literal translation of the movie title or the film's original name.