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Les feuilles mortes

from Tout Finit Par Des Chansons by Diana van der Bent

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In 1949 philosopher and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre urges a young and beautiful unknown actress named Juliette Gréco to start singing. Wonder-struck Gréco asked him: ‘What song?’

‘Well, what do you like?’ Sartre asked. She replied: ‘Les feuilles mortes’.

And this is how a chanson that later became world famous was first embraced by the young existentialists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It became the soundtrack of a period in which France slowly recovered from the events of war, marking the beginning of a new era. But all beginnings must also end. Post-war Saint-Germain no longer exists and almost all of the great writers and interpreters of French poetic chanson have passed away. What remains is their beautiful poetry and music.

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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 


C'est une chanson, qui nous ressemble

Toi, tu m'aimais et je t'aimais

Nous vivions 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

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from Tout Finit Par Des Chansons, released October 5, 2018

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Diana van der Bent Netherlands

Diana is a singer from the Netherlands with a love for musical diversity and a passion for the human voice. She graduated at the conservatory of Utrecht in 2012 in the direction of jazz & pop, but also received extensive classical training during that period. In 2015 she released her debut album containing duets with double bass player Harry Emmery. ... more

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