Ballade At Thirty Five lyrics
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Artist: Carala Bruni Album: No Promises
Lyrics
This, no song of ingénue This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever the natural bents This, a solo of sapience This, a chantey of sophistry This, the sum of experiments, -- I loved them until they loved me
Decked in garments of sable hue Daubed with ashes of myriad lents Wearing shower bouquets of rue Walk I ever in penitence Oft I roam, as my heart repents Through god's acre of memory Marking stones, in my reverence "I loved them until they loved me."
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be We're as nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me
Princes, never I'd give offense Won't you think of me tenderly? Here's my strength and my weakness, gents - I loved them until they loved me
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