• Amity
    4.6k
    Sorry, can't translate this, it'd be too hardOlivier5

    Yes. Sometimes words fail. Beautiful poetic images and song capturing more than just les passantes.

    The lyrics are about all the women whom one man met for a few fleeting moments throughout his life, and dared not approach, and how he remembers them later. It's sounds awful, said like this...Olivier5

    Yes - not hard to translate the poem but the feelings and interpretation difficult. But not impossible.
    The essence of the video...an expression of feminist experience.
    Men included. And all ages. The mix of emotions choreographed...exceptional work of art.

    https://lyricstranslate.com/en/les-passantes-passers.html

    Final verse:

    Alors, aux soirs de lassitude
    Tout en peuplant sa solitude
    Des fantômes du souvenir
    On pleure les lèvres absentes
    De toutes ces belles passantes
    Que l’on n’a pas su retenir

    So then, in bleak and weary nights,
    As one peoples one's solitude
    With the ghosts of memories
    One sobs over the absent lips
    Of all those Passers-by
    That one could not hold back.


    The regrets of a life. And what a life.

    As an artillery captain, he fought in the First World War, and later worked at the Houve mines in Strasbourg in 1919...

    When he retired in 1959, he was finally able to pursue his passions: poetry, books and butterflies...

    When Georges Brassens discovered this poem, he asked Antoine Pol for permission to set it to music, which the latter granted. Brassens, wanting to meet him, arranged for a meeting to take place after a month, but Pol died away a week before he could meet him. One of Brassens' greatest regrets was never to have met him.
    Wiki - Antoine Pol

    It's never too late until it is....
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Look who's the translator now!

    Legend has it that Brassens discovered the poem by buying Pol's used poetry book on a flea market, by chance. Pol was totally unknown.
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Look who's the translator now!Olivier5

    Oui. C'est https://lyricstranslate.com/en/les-passantes-passers.html :smile:
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Legend has it that Brassens discovered the poem by buying Pol's used poetry book on a flea market, by chance. Pol was totally unknown.Olivier5

    Ooooh la la :cool:

    Serendipity doo da day :fire:

    Michael Jackson- Jackson 5 shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.mp4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3G-80SKhTg

    Sorry :yikes:
    From the sublime to the...
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Good resource. I've tried to edit that a bit in the bellow.

    The Passers-by
    Antoine Pol

    I dedicate this poem
    To all of those women
    We love for a secret moment
    To those we just half-see
    Whom a different fate leads away
    And we never see them again

    To her we see appear
    One second at her window
    And who vanishes swiftly
    Yet whose slender outline
    Was so slim and so fine
    That our heart is left blooming

    To the fellow-traveller
    Whose eyes, a charming landscape
    Make us feel the way shorter,
    Whom we alone, maybe, understand
    But who we let get off the train
    Without even brushing her hand

    To the slim and supple waltzer
    Who seemed sad and fretful
    During some carnival night
    Who wished to remain masked
    And who never showed up again
    To whirl in another ball

    To those already taken
    And who, living drab days
    Near too different a person
    Have let you -- useless folly --
    Perceive the melancholy
    Of their despairing future

    To those shy lovers
    Who remained silent
    And yet are still mourning you
    To those who went away
    From you sad and lonely
    Victim of your stupid pride

    Dear images barely sighted
    Short-lived, arrested hopes
    You'll be forgotten tomorrow
    If happiness ever comes
    One rarely remembers
    All the episodes along the way

    Yet, if one has missed one's life,
    One muses about, longingly,
    Towards those half-sighted joys
    Those kisses one didn't dare take
    Those eyes never seen again

    So then, in bleak and weary nights
    As one peoples one's solitude
    With the ghosts of memories
    One sobs over the absent lips
    Of all those passers-by
    One failed to hold on to
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Good resource. I've tried to edit that a bitOlivier5

    Your version is fantastico - and it looks like the site encourages proof reading and welcomes changes !!
    I think the French surpasses all and sounds better :100:
    English - tchah, pah, pooh, merde :naughty:

    Je veux dédier ce poème
    À toutes les femmes qu'on aime
    Pendant quelques instants secrets
    À celles qu'on connaît à peine
    Qu'un destin différent entraîne
    Et qu'on ne retrouve jamais

    I'll dedicate this poem
    To all of those women
    We love for secret moments,
    To those we just half-see,
    That a different fate leads
    And that we never see again.

    Olivier:
    I dedicate this poem
    To all of those women
    We love for a secret moment
    To those we just half-see
    Whom a different fate leads away
    And we never see them again

    ***

    To her we see appear,
    One second, at her pane,
    And who vanishes swiftly
    Yet whose slender outline
    Is so slim and so fine
    That glowing we remain.

    Olivier:
    To her we see appear
    One second at her window
    And who vanishes swiftly
    Yet whose slender outline
    Was so slim and so fine
    That our heart is left blooming

    ***

    To the fellow-traveller,
    Whose eyes, charming landscape,
    Make us feel the way shorter ,
    Whom we alone, maybe, understand
    But whom we let get off the train
    Having not even brushed her hand.

    Olivier:
    To the fellow-traveller
    Whose eyes, a charming landscape
    Make us feel the way shorter,
    Whom we alone, maybe, understand
    But who we let get off the train
    Without even brushing her hand

    ***

    To the slim and supple waltzer
    that looked to you sad and fretful
    During some carnival night,
    Who wished to remain unknown
    And who never showed up again
    To whirl in one more ball.

    Olivier:
    To the slim and supple waltzer
    Who seemed sad and fretful
    During some carnival night
    Who wished to remain masked
    And who never showed up again
    To whirl in another ball

    ***

    To those already engaged
    And that, living drab days
    Near too different a creature,
    Let you, unuseful folly,
    Perceive the melancholy
    Of a despairing future.

    Olivier:
    To those already taken
    And who, living drab days
    Near too different a person
    Have let you -- useless folly --
    Perceive the melancholy
    Of their despairing future

    ***

    To all those Shy lovers
    That remained so quiet
    And still mourn you a lot,
    To those who went away
    From you, sad and lonely
    Enduring a stupid pride.

    Olivier:
    To those shy lovers
    Who remained silent
    And yet are still mourning you
    To those who went away
    From you sad and lonely
    Victim of your stupid pride

    ***

    Dear half-seen images,
    Unrealized short-lived hopes,
    you'll be forgotten tomorrow
    If ever happiness happens.
    It is uncommon to memorise
    all the laps on one's ways.

    Olivier:
    Dear images barely sighted
    Short-lived, arrested hopes
    You'll be forgotten tomorrow
    If happiness ever comes
    One rarely remembers
    All the episodes along the way

    ***

    Yet, if you've missed your life,
    You muse about, longingly,
    Those half-seen happy moments,
    Those kisses you daredn't accept
    Those eyes you've never Seen again.

    Olivier:
    Yet, if one has missed one's life,
    One muses about, longingly,
    Towards those half-sighted joys
    Those kisses one didn't dare take
    Those eyes never seen again

    ***

    So then, in bleak and weary nights,
    As one peoples one's solitude
    With the ghosts of memories
    One sobs over the absent lips
    Of all those Passers-by
    That one could not hold back.

    Olivier:
    So then, in bleak and weary nights
    As one peoples one's solitude
    With the ghosts of memories
    One sobs over the absent lips
    Of all those passers-by
    One failed to hold on to
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    No no no, English is a great language.
  • Amity
    4.6k
    No no no, English is a great language.Olivier5

    I think you have a better grasp of it than whot I do :wink:

    Edit: I don't know why I winked. I'm deadly serious :100:
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    LOL. Flattery will get you everywhere with me.

    Reading and writing in the language for three decades now, including on


    The English translation doesn't rhyme and has no rythme so it's less pleasing to the ear than the French original in classic octosyllabics, but evidently the situation is similar whenever an English poem is translated: the translation always sounds weak in comparison with the English original.

    You can translate the words, but you cannot translate the music of the words. And that is precisely why I was reluctant to put Les Passantes through the process. I like it a bit too much.
  • Pinprick
    950


    I told you before stay away from my door
    Don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother
    The freaks on the phone won't leave me alone
    So don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother, oh

    I, I found out
    I, I found out

    Now that I showed you what I been through
    Don't take nobody's word what you can do
    There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky
    Now that I found out I know I can cry

    I, I found out
    I, I found out

    Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand
    Don't get you nowhere, don't make you a man
    I heard something 'bout my ma and my pa
    They didn't want me so they made me a star

    I, I found out
    I, I found out

    Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you
    Just keep you crazy with nothing to do
    Keep you occupied with pie in the sky
    There ain't no Guru who can see through your eyes

    I, I found out
    I, I found out

    I seen through junkies, I been through it all
    I've seen religion from Jesus to Paul
    Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine
    No one harm you feel your own pain

    I, I found out
    I, I found this out
    I, I found out
    Ah
    Ah
    Ah
    Ah
    Ah
    Ah
    Ah
  • Amity
    4.6k
    You can translate the words, but you cannot translate the music of the words. And that is precisely why I was reluctant to put Les Passantes through the process. I like it a bit too much.Olivier5

    Je comprends.
    Here's a less distracting video. All the better to listen to the music...
    La musique des mots.

    Georges Brassens - Les passantes [Paroles]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOK35td_6g

    :sparkle:

    Je veux dédier
    I want to dedicate...
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    A couple of covers, for good measure:



  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Brassens playing it live, after Lino Ventura asked him (on salue l'artiste!):

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vl5l

    And the Italian translation by Fabrizio de Andre:

  • Amity
    4.6k
    :cool:
    :fire: :sparkle:

    Merci beaucoup pour tout. Grazie mille. Thank you. All this is wonderful :smile:
  • Amity
    4.6k


    Another funny but oh... so meaningful :nerd:
    It won my heart :cool: :love:
  • Amity
    4.6k
    MARINA - Soft To Be Strong [Official Audio - with lyrics]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHAvNp1DisA

    "I created ‘Love + Fear’ as 2 separate records to be listened to individually. A lot of us think of love as positive and fear as negative but the truth is there are positives found within fear and negatives found in love. One of the things I struggled with in the past was letting fear get in the way of love. Love scared me so much. ( Um... remember Electra Heart?!). This record is a result of working through that." - MMarina
  • Amity
    4.6k
    The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Original 1969 Music Video)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o


    "Sugar, Sugar" is one of 16 animated music segments created to be shown on "The Archie Comedy Hour" on CBS-TV in 1969, and the song is included on The Archies' 2nd album, "Everything's Archie," also released in 1969. The single was released in 1969, backed with "Melody Hill," and quickly rose to the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for 4 weeks, giving The Archies their first gold record ("Jingle Jangle" was their second gold record), and becoming the #1 song for 1969 according to Billboard magazine. Lead vocals were provided by Ron Dante, with backing vocals by Toni Wine. Music was by session muscians known as The Wrecking Crew.

    Too much Sugar is bad for you :mask:
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799), was a French classical composer, virtuoso violinist, a conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris, and a renowned champion fencer. Born in the then French colony of Guadeloupe, he was the son of Georges de Bologne Saint-Georges, a wealthy married planter, and Anne Nanon, his wife's African slave.

    During the French Revolution, Saint-Georges served as colonel of the first all-black regiment in Europe, the Légion de Saint Georges.

    Today the Chevalier de Saint-Georges is best remembered as the first known classical composer of African ancestry. He composed numerous string quartets and other instrumental pieces, as well as operas. Here is a suite of violin concertos which I found quite enjoyable.

  • Amity
    4.6k
    SABATON - Great War (Official Lyric Video)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mt4B5Z8uLA
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Listening to this:
    Interview With Pär Sundström from Sabaton I THE GREAT WAR Special
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVnMgtC5N34

    Sabaton is a Heavy Metal band from Sweden. Battles and events during World War 1 inspired them to do multiple songs about them and Indy is talking with bass player Pär Sundström about the process.

    They listen to the stories of the people whose countries they visit.
    A fascinating and intelligent conversation.
    Just wished they had included the songs being talked about !!

    The words, if not the songs, are known to the audience and they shout them out during a performance.
    I think that was in Serbia...
    Also information about Bulgaria - and so on.
  • Pinprick
    950
    Too much Sugar is bad for youAmity

  • Amity
    4.6k
    Clean Bandit - Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson) [Official Video]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatr_2MstrI

    I've been hearing symphonies
    Before all I heard was silence
    A rhapsody for you and me
    And every melody is timeless
    Life was stringing me along
    Then you came and you cut me loose
    Was solo singing on my own
    Now I can't find the key without you

    And now your song is on repeat
    And I'm dancin' on to your heartbeat
    And when you're gone, I feel incomplete
    So if you want the truth

    I just wanna be part of your symphony
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?
    Symphony
    Like a love song on the radio
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?

    I'm sorry if it's all too much
    Every day you're here, I'm healing
    And I was runnin' out of luck
    I never thought I'd find this feeling
    'Cause I've been hearing symphonies
    Before all I heard was silence
    A rhapsody for you and me
    (A rhapsody for you and me)
    And every melody is timeless

    And now your song is on repeat
    And I'm dancin' on to your heartbeat
    And when you're gone, I feel incomplete
    So if you want the truth

    I just wanna be part of your symphony
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?
    Symphony
    Like a love song on the radio
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?

    Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    Ah ah, ah
    Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    Ah ah, ah

    And now your song is on repeat
    And I'm dancin' on to your heartbeat
    And when you're gone, I feel incomplete
    So if you want the truth
    Oh, oh, oh

    I just wanna be part of your symphony
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?
    Symphony
    Like a love song on the radio
    Symphony
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?
    Symphony
    Like a love song on the radio
    Will you hold me tight and not let go?

    Songwriters: Steve Mac, Ammar Malik, Ina Wroldsen, Jack Robert Patterson
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Human - The Pretenders

    I play a good game
    But not as good as you
    I can be a little cold but you can be so cruel

    I'm not made of brick
    I'm not made of stone
    But I had you fooled enough to take me on

    If love was a war
    It's you who has won
    While I was confessing it, you held your tongue

    Now the damage is done

    Well there's blood in these veins
    And I cry when in pain
    I'm only human on the inside

    And if looks could deceive
    Make it hard to believe
    I'm only human on the inside

    I thought you'd come through
    I thought you'd come clean
    You were the best thing I should never have seen

    But you go to extremes
    You push me too far
    Then you keep going till you break my heart

    Yeah, you break my heart

    See, I bleed and I bruise
    Oh, but what's it to you?
    I'm only human on the inside

    And if looks could deceive
    Make it hard to believe
    I'm only human on the inside

    And I crash and I burn
    Maybe some day you'll learn
    I'm only human on the inside

    I stumble and fall
    Baby, under it all
    I'm only human on the inside


  • 180 Proof
    13.9k


    "The Blues Walk" (6:53)
    Clifford Brown & Max Roach, 1955
    The Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet

    *



    "Somethin' Else" (8:15)
    Somethin' Else, 1958
    composer Miles Davis, 1958
    performer Cannonball Adderley & co

    *



    "Dat Dere" (8:47)
    The Big Beat, 1960
    composer Bobby Timmons, 1960
    performer Art Blakey & The Jazz Messingers
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Desperately Seeking Music to reduce Anger. Help !!!
    Source:
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/604120
    Shouting out just ain't working.

    Found this:
    Music to Soothe Anger: "A Touch of Calm" - Calming, Peaceful, Harmony, Relaxing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2TdvDaS5A

    But I think I just want to rage :rage:
    Bang a few drums hard and long; better than head-banging against the wall...I suppose...
  • Amity
    4.6k
    The Beatles - Help!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE

    Help! I need somebody
    Help! Not just anybody
    Help! You know I need someone
    Help!

    When I was younger, so much younger than today
    I never needed anybody's help in any way
    But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured
    Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

    Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
    And I do appreciate you being 'round
    Help me get my feet back on the ground
    Won't you please, please help me?

    And now my life has changed in oh so many ways
    My independence seems to vanish in the haze
    But every now and then I feel so insecure
    I know that I just need you like I've never done before

    Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
    And I do appreciate you being 'round
    Help me get my feet back on the ground
    Won't you please, please help me?

    When I was younger, so much younger than today
    I never needed anybody's help in any way
    But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured
    Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

    Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
    And I do appreciate you being 'round
    Help me get my feet back on the ground
    Won't you please, please help me?

    Help me, help me, oh

    Songwriters: Lennon John Winston, Mccartney Paul James
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data From: Musixmatch
  • 180 Proof
    13.9k
    :up: 'Existential crisis' has never seemed so cheerful.
    Well maybe ...
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGyunJd1D8
  • Amity
    4.6k

    Well now see what you gone and done - made me smile and cry at the same time :kiss:
  • Amity
    4.6k
    Lighthouse Family - Lifted
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZ6CXuiHdQ

    Lifted
    Lighthouse Family

    I'd really love to be alone without all the
    Ache and pain and the April showers
    But it ain't long before I long for you, like a
    Ray of hope, coming through the blue moon

    When it all gets dark again
    The whole thing falls apart I guess
    It doesn't really matter 'bout the rain
    'Cause we'll get through it anyway
    We'll get up and start again

    'Cause we could be lifted, lifted, lifted
    We could be lifted
    From the shadows, lifted
    Oh we could be, lifted up today
    Lifted all the way, you and I forever
    Baby, lifted, lifted, lifted, hey

    It's undisturbable the peace we found
    In a bright new space up above the clouds
    Everything is understandable
    You don't have to say anything too loud

    When all our luck runs out again
    We're brought back down to solid ground
    I wouldn't say I'm mad about the rain
    But we'll get through it anyway
    We'll get back to the start again

    'Cause we could be lifted, lifted, lifted
    We could be lifted
    From the shadows, lifted
    Oh we could be, lifted up today
    Lifted all the way, you and I forever
    Baby, lifted, we could be lifted, we could be lifted, hey

    We could be lifted, we could be lifted
    We could be lifted, you and I forever
    We could be lifted, we could be lifted
    Yeah we could be lifted
    We could be lifted up to new horizons

    Lifted, lifted up today, lifted all the way
    We could be lifted
    From the shadows, lifted
    Lifted upto new horizons

    When it all gets dark again, it doesn't really matter 'bout the rain
    Lifted (from the shadows)
    When it all gets dark again, it doesn't really matter 'bout the rain
    Lifted (Lifted upto new horizons)

    We could be lifted (lifted)
    From the shadows (lifted)
    We could be lifted (lifted)
    You and I forever baby (lifted)

    Songwriters: Tucker, Brammer, Baiyewu
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
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