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The Last Words of
Hassan Sabbah
By William S. Burroughs To hear Rhaitas in Joujouka by the Master Musicians of Joujouka, click on the image and or right click here to open in another window. |
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Brion Gysin, Algiers 1956 - "Here to Go - Planet R 101" :
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The following text is extracted from the CD "Nothing Here But The Recordings", "From the archives of William S. Burroughs", Industrial Records Ltd. Click here to listen to it or download it in Real Player : Last Words of Hassan Sabbah We translate it in different languages for an Interzone CD compilation. English version : William S Burroughs Transcript version from 'nothing here now but the recordings' : By Rasta Robert http://rasta.www.cistron.nl/his/French version : "Les Derniers Mots de Hassan Sabbah" by Agent Izzy Arabic version : Dutch version : "De Laatste Woorden van Hassan Sabbah" by Rasta Robert Bulgarian version : Norvegian version: LYTT TIL DE SISTE ORDENE TIL HASSAN I SABBAH by Brt Ommunsen Spanish version : Las últimas palabras de Hassan Sabbah by Mioclonic Lithuanian version :PASKUTINIAI HASANO SABAHO ŽODŽIAI by Vasha Dadaja Catalan version : LES ULTIMES PARAULES DE HASSAN SABBAH by Josep Altimiras Japanese version by Foe Tamajiro Music at http://www.foe4foe.net/music/dub subroza - OZU/his2.5.mp3
1. Oiga amigos ! Oiga amigos ! Paco ! Enrique ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">2. Listen to the last words of Hassan Sabbah,="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">3. The Old man of the Mountain ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">4. Listen to my last words, anywhere ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">5. Listen all you boards, governments, syndicates, nations of the world, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">6. And you, powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">7. To take what is not yours , ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">8. To sell out your sons forever ! To sell out the ground from unborn feet for ever ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">9. Listen to my last words any world ! Listen if you value the bodies for which you would sell all souls forever! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">10. What am I doing over here with the workers, the gooks, the apes, the dogs, the errand boys, the human animals ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">11 . Why don't I come over with the board, and drink coca-cola and make it ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 12. "For God's sake, do not let that Coca-Cola thing out !"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 13. Thing is right, Mr Whoever is responsible for that who done it !="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">14. Explain how the blood, and bones, and brains of a hundred million more or less gooks went down the drain in green piss ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">15. So you on the boards could use bodies, and minds, and souls that were not yours, are not yours, and never will be yours. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">16. You want Hassan Sabbah to explain that ? To tidy that up ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">You have the wrong name and the wrong number ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 17. "Don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing ! "="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 18. Are these the words of the all powerful nations and syndicates of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 19. "- Don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing!="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">20. Not the cancer deal, not the green deal ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">21. Do not let that out ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">22. Desaster, desaster, unimaginable disaster ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">23. Don't show them out, these things take time and that's my business." ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 24. As usual, Mr Loose ! Short time to go. Minutes to go!="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">Blue heavy metal people. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 25. "- Don't let that out! Don't show them the blues !"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 26. Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">Show them the blues. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">27. Crab men ! Pick worms ! Intestinal parasites ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">28. Squeezing the air you did not shit it out and eat it again, forever ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 29. "Don't let them see us ! Don't tell them what we are doing !"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 30. Are these the words of the all powerful boards, syndicates, cartels of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">31. The great banking families of the world ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">32. French, English, American ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">33. Like Burroughs, that proud American name ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">34. Proud of what exactly ? Would you all like to see exactly what Burroughs has to be proud of ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">35. Short time racket, heavy metal gimmick ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">36. All right, Mister Burroughs, who bears my name and my words bear it all the way ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">37. For all to see, in Times Square, in Picadilly, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">38. Play it all, play it all, play it all back ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">39. Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back ! ... ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">40. Shall I show them the blues ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">41. Now! Now! Now ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 42. "Premature ! Premature! Premature!"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 43. Time for what ? Premature for whom ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">44. I say to all : these words are not premature . These words might be too late. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">45. Minutes to go. Minutes to go. Minutes to goo ; Minutes to green goo. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 46. "Top secret! For the Board - the Initiates.."="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 47. Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">48. These are the words of liars, and cowards, and collaborators and traitors, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">Liars who always want more time and more ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">49. You stole to the sky what was not yours ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">Poisonning the bodies and the souls forever ! Look ! Look ! Look ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 50. "Don't let them see us ! Don't tell them what we are doing !"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 51. Are these the words of the great nations, the all powerful boards and syndicates of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">52. These are the names of liars, and cowards, and collaboraters and traitors ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">53. Collaborators with insect people, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">54. With any people anywhere who offers you a body forever, to shit forever. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">55. For this you have sold your sons forever, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">56. The ground under unborn feet forever ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">57. Traiters to all souls everywhere ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">58. You on the boards, who want others to pay for you, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">59. With your deals to take what is not yours ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">60. You on the board, who now say : ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 61. "Protect us from our our gooks="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">62. Protect us from our human animals." ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 63. Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the earth ?="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">64. And you want the name of Hassan Sabbah on your filth deals ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">65. To sell out the unborn ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 66. "Protect us from our gooks, our dogs, our human animals !"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 67. Are these the words of the all powerful boards, your powerful syndicates="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">68. Your powerful governments and nations of the earth ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">69. Liars ! Liars! Liars! Cowards! Cowards ! Cowards! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">70. Who cannot even face your own dogs ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">71. Traitors to all souls everywhere ! Sold out to shit forever : ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">72. You, miserable collaborators, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">73. Now ask protection of Hassan Sabbah ? ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 74. "Protect us from our gooks, our human animals ?"="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 75. No, no, no, I will not protect you,="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">76. And you will never use the name of Hassan Sabbah - William Burroughs to cover your green shit deals with crab-men. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">77. My words are for all, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">78 I repeat for all ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">79. No one is excluded ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">80. Free to all who pay , free to all who pay and pain for all to see , for all to see! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">81. In Picadilly, in Time Square, Place de la concorde, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">82. In all the streets and plazas of the world ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">83. Pay, pay, pay ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">84. Play it all, play it all , play it all back ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">85. Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">86. See my writing the silent accross all your skies, ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">87. The silent writing of Brion Gysin - Hassan Sabbah. ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">88. The silent writing of space, the writing of Hassan Sabbah ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm">89. All out of time ! All into space ! Forever ! ="border: 6.00pt double #800000; padding: 0.05cm 0.19cm"> 90. PRISONNERS OF THE EARTH, COME OUT!
Surf to Rasta's integral version of this recording and Dutch translation http://www.interstroom.nl/~rr/his/ More on Hassan Sabbah : "La Convocation d'Alamut" by Nasiroddin Tusi Hassan Sabbah: enough lies !!!!!!!! Pages related to Hassan Sabbah In French : articles rassemblés dans Le Temps des Naguals : Tome 2:Département de sémantique générale, de philosophie et d'histoire (Interzone Library ) The Western Lands + Interzone Academy + Interzone Creations + Interzone Library + Rédacteurs Reporters d'Interzone + La sémantique générale pour tous + B D d'Interzone + Interzone Galleries + Interzone News |