Je veux oublier que j'aime

Je veux oublier que j'aime,
Emportez-moi loin, amis,
Emportez-moi loin d'ici,
En Flandre, en Espagne, à Naple, en Bohême,
Si loin qu'en chemin reste mon souci!
Que restera-t'il en moi, en de moi-même,
Quand à m'en guérir j'aurai réussi?
N'importe, je veux fermer ma blessure
Les longues douleurs ne sont pas mon lot!
Allons, je veux fermer ma blessure,
Partons! Allons par pays courir l'aventure,
Pour nous secourer partons au galop!
Sans te dire adieu chère créature!
Car mon coeur fondrait en sanglot!
Nous reposerons, la course assouvie,
Dans le serpolet, le baume et le thym!
Mais si d'en cueillir il me prend envie
Détournez mes doigts d'un fatal butin,
Car ce fut ainsi qu'elle prit ma vie,
Sans en rien savoir par un frais matin!
J'étais à genoux parmi la bruyère.

Partons, mes amis, partons! je soif de courir.
Que mon cheval jette un vent sa crinière,
Voyons l'horizon devant nous s'ouvrir.
Ah, partez sans moi! l'âme prisonnière
Aime sa prison - et veut y mourir!

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• by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889), "Départ", written 1855, appears in Les pariétaires, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy frères, first published 1855 [ author's text not verified ]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Départ", 1867, published 1885 [tenor and piano], from Quinze mélodies, deux chœurs, no. 5, Éd. Hartmann & Cie. [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Départ", CG. 369 (1868), published 1869. [voice and piano] [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Je veux oublier" [high voice and piano], from Troisième recueil de mélodies de V. Massé, no. 8, Éditions Léon Grus [ sung text not verified ]

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• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I want to forget that I have loved

I want to forget that I have loved;
Take me away, friends,
Take me away from here,
To Flanders, to Spain, to Naples, to Bohemia,
So far that my cares lie in the road!
What will be left in me, inside myself,
When I’ve suceeded in curing myself?
No worries, I want to heal my wound:
Lengthy suffering will not be my fate!
Let’s go, I want to heal my wound,
Let’s leave! Let’s adventure from country to country,
And let’s leave at a gallop to help us on our way
Without saying goodbye to you, dear creature!
Because my heart would melt in sobs!
We’ll rest, when our race is run,
In the wild thyme, basalm and French thyme!
But if I want to pick them
Pull my fingers away from the fatal booty,
For in this way she took my life
Without realizing it one fresh morning!
I was on my knees in the heather.

Let’s go, my friends, let’s go! I'm longing to ride off.
May my horse let the wind ripple through his mane,
Let’s watch the horizon opening before us.
Oh, go without me! This prisoner’s soul
Loves his prison - and wants to die!

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Translations of title(s):
"Je veux oublier" = "I want to forget"
"Départ" = "Departure"

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• a text in French (Français) by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889), "Départ", written 1855, appears in Les pariétaires, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy frères, first published 1855
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Léo Delibes, Charles Gounod, Victor Massé. Go to the text.

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