Projecteurs balayez un monde de décombres Les enfants de minuit retrouveront demain et Renaud qui portait ses tripes en sa main et le mari soldat mort vivant des complaintes La foule tourne en rond dans le Jardin des Plaintes mais te reconnaîtrai-je au milieu des rumeurs de l’angoisse amoureuse et à quel cri du cœur Il y a si longtemps que j’ai perdu mon ombre
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Gilson (1904 - 1963), "Remembrance", written 1944, appears in Au Rendez-vous des solitaires, no. 12, Éd. Seghers, first published 1947 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean-Michel Damase (1928 - 2013), "Remembrance", op. 26 no. 4 (1952), published 1954 [ medium voice and piano ], from No Exit - 6 poèmes de Paul Gilson, no. 4, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
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