Original Title: "Les chemins de l'amour"
Text: Jean Anouilh
Music: Francis Poulenc
Year: 1940 (written), 1987 (album release)
Very good translation with not much changes made by Richard Stokes can be found here.
Paths leading to the sea
Have kept from our passing
Some flowers with their petals plucked off
And the echo, under their trees,
Of our two clear laughs
Alas! Of the days of happiness
Radiant joy flewn away,
I go without finding back any trace
In my heart
Paths of my love
I'm still looking for you
Lost paths, you are no more
And your echoes are deaf
Paths of despair
Paths of memory
Paths of the first day
Divine paths of love
If I have to forget her one day
Life erasing all things,
I want in my heart that a memory
Rests stronger than the other love,
The memory of the path
Where trembling and all overcome,
One day I've felt your hands burn on me
Paths of my love
I'm still looking for you
Lost paths you are no more
And your echos are deaf
Paths of despair
Paths of memory
Paths of the first day
Divine paths of love
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