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Lyrics also written by Jacques Prévert for the movie Les Portes de la Nuit set to music by Joseph Cosma, this haunting and beautiful melody became an international hit as soon as Montand decided to sing it, sealing his friendship with Prévert and became his signature song. I love this version of ours. And soon, I'll record a wonderful lyric translation by David Krueger.
lyrics
(ENGLISH BELOW)
Oh ! je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes
Des jours heureux où nous étions amis.
En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle,
Et le soleil plus brûlant qu'aujourd'hui.
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle.
Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié...
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,
Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi
Et le vent du nord les emporte
Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli.
Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié
La chanson que tu me chantais.
{Refrain:}
C'est une chanson qui nous ressemble.
Toi, tu m'aimais et je t'aimais
Et nous vivions tous deux ensemble,
Toi qui m'aimais, moi qui t'aimais.
Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment,
Tout doucement, sans faire de bruit
Et la mer efface sur le sable
Les pas des amants désunis.
ENGLISH (This beautiful new translation by David Krueger really tells the story Prévert wrote, quite different from the famed Johnny Mercer version.)
Oh! I so want to know that you still remember
The happy days wherein we lived as friends.
In a time of our lives more beautiful,
The sun shone more brilliantly than today.
The falling leaves drift away to the soil
You see all we shared I retain
The falling leaves drift away to the soil
The memories and the regrets refrain.
And the Northern wind whisks them away
In evening’s cold oblivion.
I’ve never forgotten you see
The love song you sang to me.
It is a song that we resemble,
You, you loved me and I loved you
We lived as one we two together,
You loving me, me loving you.
But life also brings separation,
Without a word, so silently
And the footsteps traced by lovers
Are washed away by the sea.
INSTRUMENTAL
But life also brings separation,
Without a word, so silently
And the footsteps traced by lovers
Are washed away by the sea.
credits
from Le gamin de Paris - Jean Brassard chante Montand,
released July 19, 2014
Cello - Karen Codd; keyboards - Alexandre Racine; bass - Alexandre Blais; accordion - Richard Maheux; percussions - Pierre-Emmanuel Beaudoin -
Vocals: Jean Brassard
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