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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Le front comme un drapeau perdu
Language: French (Français) 
Le front comme un drapeau perdu
Je te traîne quand je suis seul
Dans des rues froides
Des chambres noires
En criant misère.

Je ne veux pas les lâcher
Tes mains claires et compliquées
Nées dans le miroir clos des miennes.

Tout le reste est parfait
Tout le reste est encore plus inutile
Que la vie.

Creuse la terre sous ton ombre.

Une nappe d'eau près des seins
Où se noyer
Comme une pierre.

Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Le front comme un drapeau perdu", FP 86 no. 3 (1937), published 1937 [ high voice and piano ], from Tel jour Telle nuit, no. 3, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 74

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