Sorry, can't translate this, it'd be too hard — Olivier5

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....

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.

Look who's the translator now! — Olivier5

Oui. C'est https://lyricstranslate.com/en/les-passantes-passers.html :smile:

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...

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

Good resource. I've tried to edit that a bit — Olivier5

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

No no no, English is a great language.

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:

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.

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

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...

A couple of covers, for good measure:

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:

:cool:
:fire: :sparkle:

Merci beaucoup pour tout. Grazie mille. Thank you. All this is wonderful :smile:

Another funny but oh... so meaningful :nerd:
It won my heart :cool: :love:

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." - M — Marina

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:

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.

SABATON - Great War (Official Lyric Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mt4B5Z8uLA

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.

Too much Sugar is bad for you — Amity

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

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

"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

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...

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

The Beatles - Help!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE — Amity

:up: 'Existential crisis' has never seemed so cheerful.
Well maybe ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGyunJd1D8

Well maybe ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGyunJd1D8 — 180 Proof

Well now see what you gone and done - made me smile and cry at the same time :kiss:

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