TALK TO ME OF LOVE

TALK TO ME OF LOVE


Juliette Greco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXzVFYPkyc



Tell me again tender things
Your beautiful speech
My heart is not weary of hearing
Provided always
You repeat these wonderful words
I love you

You know
In reality I dont think so
But yet I still want
Listen to this word that I adore
Your voice sounds caressing
And in spite of myself I want to believe

It is so sweet
My dear treasure, to be a little crazy
Life is sometimes too bitter
If one does not believe in dreams
Grief is quickly appeased
With a hug and a kiss
The word that heals the wound in the heart.

---From Juliette Greco's Parlez-moi d'amour

Sleeping With My Loneliness

MY SOLITUDE
(By Georges Moustaki—A French singer of Greek origin)

To have so often slept with my loneliness,
She is almost a friend, a sweet habit.
She is like a faithful shadow.
She follows me here and there, to the four corners of the world.


No, I'm never alone with my loneliness.


When she is in my bed, she takes all the space,
And we spend long nights, both face to face.
I really do not know how far this will go on, this complicity


No, I'm never alone with my loneliness.


Through her, I learnt as much as I shed tears.
If sometimes I try to put her away, I can’t.
Should I choose the love of another woman?
Possibly on my last day, my last girlfriend?


But I never feel alone with my loneliness.
No, I'm never alone with my loneliness.


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IF YOU DID NOT EXIST

Si tu n’existais pas If you did not exist

Joe Dassin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abfQQ1hzN9M

And if you did not exist
Tell me why should I exist.
To hang around in a world without you
With neither hope nor regret .

And if you did not exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees his fingers
Give shape to the colors of the day .

And if you did not exist
Tell me for whom would I exist.
Passers- by asleep in my arms
I would never love.

And if you did not exist
In this world where one comes and goes
I would feel lost
I would need you .

And if you did not exist
Tell me how would I exist
I could pretend to be myself
But that would not be true

And if you did not exist
I think I would have found
The secret of life,
Just to create you
And to look at you.

And if you did not exist
Tell me why should I exist
To hang around in a world without you
With neither hope nor regret

And if you did not exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees his fingers
Give shape to the colors of the day.

JE VEUX I WANT

As sung by Zaz herself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_9fgtEKYg

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L"ETE INDIEN--- THE INDIAN SUMMER

(Joe Dassin’s song of 1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ9acTpB0ic
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You know, I have never been as happy as I was that morning
We were walking along the beach a bit like this,
It was autumn, an autumn when weather was nice
A season that exists only in North America
Down there one calls it the Indian Summer
This one was simply ours
With your long blue dress you resembled a watercolor by Marie Laurence.
And I remember, I remember very well
What I told you that morning
A year, a century, an eternity ago.


I told you: We will be going, where you want to go, whenever you want to
We will be loving each other still even when love will be dead
And all of life will be like the shades of the Indian Summer.


Today I'm far away from that morning of autumn
But it's like I am still there
I'm thinking of you
Where are you?
Do I still exist for you?
I'm watching this wave that will never reach the sand
You see, I'm lying down on the sand
And I'm remembering the rising tide flowing in, the sun and happiness drifting away into the sea
An eternity, a century, a year ago


We will be going, where you want to go whenever you want to
We will be loving each other still even when love will be dead
And all of life will be like the shades of the Indian Summer

I WANT

I WANT
Zaz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_ELGxTP60&feature=related

Give me a suite at the Ritz hotel, I don't want that
Chanel's jewellery, I don't want that
Give me a limo, what would I do with it?
Offer me staff, what would I do with it?
A mansion in Neufchatel, it's not for me
Offer me the Eiffel tower, what would I do with it?

I want love, joy, good spirit
It's not your money that will make me happy
I want to die with a hand on my heart
Let's go together, let's discover my freedom,
Forget all your prejudice, welcome to my reality

I'm fed up with your good manners, it's too much for me
I eat with my hands, I'm like that
I speak loud and I'm direct, sorry
Let's end the hypocrisy, I'm out of it
I'm tired of double-talk
Look at me, I'm not even mad at you, I'm just like that

I want love, joy, good spirit
It's not your money that will make me happy
I want to die with a hand on my heart
Let's go together, let's discover my freedom,
Forget all your prejudice, welcome to my reality