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Jean-Jacques Goldman - Comme Toi



Elle avait les yeux clairs et la robe en velours --- She had clear eyes and a velvet dress
À côté de sa mère et la famille autour --- Sitting next to her mother, with her family around
Elle pose un peu distraite au doux soleil de la fin du jour --- She poses, a bit distracted, under the soft light of dusk
La photo n'est pas bonne mais l'on peut y voir --- The picture is not good but you can see in it
Le bonheur en personne et la douceur d'un soir --- Happiness personalised and the sweetness of twilight
Elle aimait la musique, surtout Schumann et puis Mozart --- She used to loved music, especially Schumann and Mozart

Comme toi comme toi [etc.] --- A little bit like you, like you, like you [ etc.].
Comme toi que je regarde tout bas --- Like you whom I watch silently
Comme toi qui dort en rêvant à quoi ? --- As you sleep, dreaming of what?
Comme toi comme toi comme toi comme toi --- A little bit like you like you like you like you

Elle allait à l'école au village d'en bas --- She went to school in the village below
Elle apprenait les livres elle apprenait les lois --- She learned the books and she learned the laws
Elle chantait les grenouilles et les princesses qui dorment au bois --- She sang about the frogs and princesses that live in the woods
Elle aimait sa poupée elle aimait ses amis --- She loved her doll she loved her friends
Surtout Ruth et Anna et surtout Jérémie --- Especially Ruth and Anna and especially Jeremiah
Et ils se marieraient un jour, peut-être à Varsovie --- And they would get married one day , maybe in Warsaw

Comme toi comme toi [etc.] --- A little bit like you, like you, like you [ etc.].

Elle s'appelait Sarah elle n'avait pas huit ans --- Her name was Sarah and she wasn't eight years old
Sa vie c'était douceur, rêves et nuages blancs --- Her life was made of kindness, dreams and white clouds
Mais d'autres gens en avaient décidé autrement --- But other people had decided otherwise
Elle avait tes yeux clairs et elle avait ton âge --- She had your clear eyes and she was your age
C'était une petite fille sans histoires et très sage --- She was a little girl, uneventful and wise
Mais elle n'est pas née comme toi, ici et maintenant --- But unlike you, she wasn't born here and now

Comme toi comme toi [etc.] --- A little bit like you, like you, like you [ etc.].

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one more bump, then I'll throw in the towel.

Just can't get Souchon's tunes out of my head... Here he pokes fun at philosophers and "thinkers", while celebrating life.

Alain Souchon - La Vie ne Vaut Rien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAdjcVt1aA

Il a tourné sa vie dans tous les sens  --- He turned his life around in every way
Pour savoir si ça avait un sens l'existence  --- To see whether existence made sense
Il a demandé leur avis à des tas de gens ravis  --- He asked for advice to a lot of delighted people
Ravis, ravis, de donner leur avis sur la vie  --- Delighted, delighted they were to give their views on life
Il a traversé les vapeurs des derviches tourneurs  --- So he traveled through the vapors of the whirling dervishes
Des haschich fumeurs et il a dit  --- Of the smoking hashishins, and he said:

La vie ne vaut rien, rien, la vie ne vaut rien  --- Life is worth nothing, nothing, life is worthless
Mais moi quand je tiens, tiens, mais moi quand je tiens  --- But when I hold, hey, but I when I hold
Là dans mes deux mains éblouies,  --- Right there in my two bedazzled hands
Les deux jolis petits seins de mon amie,  --- The two pretty little breasts of my friend
Là je dis rien, rien, rien, rien ne vaut la vie.  --- Then I say: nothing, nothing, nothing is worth (as much as) life

Il a vu l'espace qui passe  --- He saw the huge space that separates
Entre la jet set les fastes, les palaces  --- The jet set, the pomp, the palaces
Et puis les techniciens de surface,  --- From the cleaning crew
D'autres espèrent dans les clochers, les monastères  --- Others hope in churches, monasteries
Voir le vieux sergent pépère mais ce n'est que Richard Gere,  --- Want to see the old sergeant, but it is only Richard Gere,
Il est entré comme un insecte sur sites Internet  --- He crawled like an insect on many websites
Voir les gens des sectes et il a dit  --- To see people in sects, and he said

La vie ne vaut rien, rien, la vie ne vaut rien  --- Life is worth nothing, nothing, life is worthless
Mais moi quand je tiens, tiens, mais moi quand je tiens  --- But when I hold, hey, but I when I hold
Là dans mes deux mains éblouies,  --- Right there in my two bedazzled hands
Les deux jolis petits seins de mon amie,  --- The two pretty little breasts of my friend
Là je dis rien, rien, rien, rien ne vaut la vie.  --- Then I say: nothing, nothing, nothing is worth life

Il a vu manque d'amour, manque d'argent  --- He saw a lack of love, lack of money
Comme la vie c'est détergeant  --- How life is detergent
Et comme ça nettoie les gens,  --- And how it cleanses people
Il a joué "jeux interdit" pour des amis endormis --- He played "forbidden games" for sleeping friends
La nostalgie, et il a dit  --- For nostalgia, and he said

La vie ne vaut rien, rien, la vie ne vaut rien  --- Life is worth nothing, nothing, life is worthless
Mais moi quand je tiens, tiens, mais moi quand je tiens  --- But when I hold, hey, but I when I hold
Là dans mes deux mains éblouies,  --- Right there in my two bedazzled hands
Les deux jolis petits seins de mon amie,  --- The two pretty little breasts of my friend
Là je dis rien, rien, rien, rien ne vaut la vie.  --- Then I say: nothing, nothing, nothing is worth life

Rien, rien, rien, rien ne vaut la vie  --- Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing is worth life

one more bump from the heart.

Ros, Welcome back. Andy was great.

Olivier 5, also loved Grace.

Hope I didn't miss anyone, I can't tell you how much I appreciate everyone of you for your contributions.

Izz with a y.

I found this info on Shakespeare, buddy.

It is true we don’t know Shakespeare’s date of birth. We know it was in 1564 but our only record at this time was of his baptism at the Holy Trinity Church on April the 26th. By convention and some guesswork, Shakespeare’s birthday is by tradition celebrated three days earlier on April the 23rd.

Now, a birthday man that is fabulous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTujwN0y84

I remember most of his movies, but this one I truly loved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ICbZVs9TU

Once again, calling all poets, musicians, painters, music loveers and chatters:

Our poem for today by William Blake:


I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And 'Thou shalt not,' writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.

I was also thinking about the term apostrophe. It is a person talking to something that is not there, while a soliloquy is speaking to the general audience.

Sorry Oliver 5, I credited you with the wrong song. As you know, mon ami, whatever you play here is great.

Hope I didn't miss comment on Latin George's marvelous Gregorian chant.

bump, bump, and so forth. I loved the poem. It reminds me of a painting I did entitled El Jardin de Las Locas: the garden of the crazy women. I fear I'm inspired by Chris Rock.

JL, welcome back to you as well. Nobody here dislikes your paintings. What inspires you, is what we love.

Here's another painter that JL admired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxg2M9g33TY

You sent me searching again, JL


Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. After working as a standup comic and appearing in small film roles, Rock came to wider prominence as a result of his talent.

Love to learn here on our radio.

Want the weather to change? Move to Florida.Sunny and warm.

Well, it's really dark now so I'm saying good evening with two songs.

First Johnny Mathis. What a surprise to find out that he was from Texas.

This is a cover of dear Peggy Lee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZ6E4S8ShU

Now, one inspired by my dear friend Bert Lee who got his days and nights mixed up, but he and his lovely wife Josie still said: We're thinking of you.

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

Great having France and England with us, as well as my friend, JLNobody.

From Letty with love to everyone here.

I got a link to this from my friend Spencer in Montreal.
Our mutual friend Jim Corcoran -- whose name is familar to many
Canadians --translated and narrated this.


You Look Like Me

First, about ten years ago, there was a text by Paule Marier. Then, René
Lussier made a song from that text for his 2014 album (Toucher une âme).
Jim Corcoran translated the text to English and recorded it for his CBC
radio program, but instead he decided to send it to René Lussier
suggesting that maybe he could do something new out of it. René created
a new music over the recorded text and after listening to the finished
sound track, the two decided that it would be good if there were images
to it. This is how it finally ended up in my Drop Box and it gave birth to
this film. Afterward, a French version of the film was made with the
original French text.

Have I seen that one, JL? tell me, tell me..

I'm not sure the paintings of yours that I posted still show.. photobucket made a fairly large batch of my photo entries small and yours were part of them. I've no idea what that was about.

Once in a while photobucket mystifies me. I could post them again if you can't see them.

I got an error shown on that, George..

Oops, not for text part.

Well, that was good, good.

Morning all.
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold,
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Henry VI Part 2 Act II Sc IV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5IYXby3Z4
Be My Guest

Good morning from here in our Florida radio station.

Love that quote from last evening, pullman.

Latin George, You Look Like Me was funny.

edgar, loved that song, buddy.

Two songs for today, y'all.

First, a birthday guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKThWjc257A

Although I remember this one best by "old blue eyes", I like the earlier version. Love Rudyard Kipling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5_M9kTBmug