Léo Ferré
WITH TIME

Traduction de Alan Weinraub


With time with time goes everything One forgets the face and the voice the
heart when its built up should not look too far into the grief of departure
when it doesn't go well let it be and its quite good

With time with time goes everything there goes the one one adored whom one
looked for in the rain. that one guessed at the blink of an eye between the
words, between the lines and under the makeup of an oath made up that goes
to make its night with time everything becomes dim

With time with time goes, everything goes even the excellent memories have
an ugly face I search the crowd in the lumination of death on Saturday
night, when tenderness goes by itself.

With time with time goes everything goes the other in whom one believed for
a cold for a nothing the other to whom one gave hot air and jewels for whom
one would have sold his soul for small change in front of whom one would
have hung around like dogs hang around with time goes all goes well

With time with time goes everything goes one forgets the passion one
forgets the voice that speaks to you softly, the words of poor people
"don't come home too late" "above all don't catch cold"

With time with time goes everything goes one feels pallid like an exhausted
horse one feels ice in an occasional bed one feels alone and beaten by the
lost years but its an easy task because truly with time we don't love more.


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