Such Drama!
Now, my Frenchifying skills aren't completely fresh, but...
Les Feuilles Mortes
Par Jacques Prevert
C’est une chanson qui nous ressemble,
Toi tu m’aimois et je t’aimais.
Nous vivons tous, les 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.
Now, if I'm reading it right....
We are like a song,
You, who had loved me, and I, who had loved you.
We lived through everything, the two of us,
You, who loved me, and I, who loved you.
But life separates those who love each other,
Completely softly without a sound.
And the sea erases on the sand
The footprints of the separated lovers
Yeah. Something like that. In any case, Dude. That pales the English counterpart, I think. What happened to good old-fashioned fluff like this? Have the poets died out? Is it unmanly or something to create mindblowing metaphors like the Latin American poets? Or lyricism and fluidity of the French? Or the simplicity of a haiku? Dude. What has happened. Maybe I'm just looking in all the wrong places lately.
I'm such a sap.
Les Feuilles Mortes
Par Jacques Prevert
C’est une chanson qui nous ressemble,
Toi tu m’aimois et je t’aimais.
Nous vivons tous, les 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.
Now, if I'm reading it right....
We are like a song,
You, who had loved me, and I, who had loved you.
We lived through everything, the two of us,
You, who loved me, and I, who loved you.
But life separates those who love each other,
Completely softly without a sound.
And the sea erases on the sand
The footprints of the separated lovers
Yeah. Something like that. In any case, Dude. That pales the English counterpart, I think. What happened to good old-fashioned fluff like this? Have the poets died out? Is it unmanly or something to create mindblowing metaphors like the Latin American poets? Or lyricism and fluidity of the French? Or the simplicity of a haiku? Dude. What has happened. Maybe I'm just looking in all the wrong places lately.
I'm such a sap.