Jean Ferrat - Tell me about the sea

Original Title: "Raconte-moi la mer"
Text: Claude Delecluse
Music: Jean Ferrat
Year: 1965

Tell me about the sea
Tell me the taste of the seaweeds
And the blue and the green
Dancing on the waves.
The sea is the impossible
It's the happy shore
It's the peaceful morning
When we open our eyes
It's the gate of the open sea
Opened with its two door wings.
It's the head on a journey
Towards other continents.
It's flying like Icarus
Going out to meet the sun
By closing one's memory
To this cruel world.
The sea is the desire
Of this country of love
That will have to be discovered
Before the end of the day.

Tell me about the sea
Tell me its pale dawns
And the blue and the green
Where some stars fall
The sea is the innocence
Of the lost paradise
The garden of childhood
Where nothing sings anymore
It's the foam and the sand
Always repeated
And life is alike to
The rythm of the tides
It's the endless distress
Of the things that are going away.
It's everything that is leaving us
during the dead season.
The sea is the regret
For that country of love
Which we are always looking for
and that we never reach.

Tell me about the sea
Tell me the taste of the seaweeds
And the blue and the green
Dancing on the waves