ascenseur pour L'echafaud

Always watched
Always we watch
L'ascenseur ... de rigueur
And the impenetrable comes between
Eyes clutching at the scene
Only ever incompletely seen
"Il y a toujours espoir ....
Il n'y a aucun espoir"
Listen ... do you hear ... there is no choir ... never a choir
Never voices to sooth and caress
As the climb becomes harder
L'ascenseur
Thought clamouring to digress
De rigueur
From ever the obligatory order

l'echafaud