Carla Bruni - No Promises

Ballade At Thirty-Five

This, no song of ingénue
This, no ballad of innocence
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever the natural bents
This, a solo of sapience
This, a chantey of sophistry
This, the sum of experiments, --
I loved them until they loved me

Decked in garments of sable hue
Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents
Wearing shower bouquets of rue
Walk I ever in penitence
Oft I roam, as my heart repents
Through God's acre of memory
Marking stones, in my reverence
"I loved them until they loved me."

Pictures pass me in long review, --
Marching columns of dead events
I was tender, and, often, true
Ever a prey to coincidence
Always knew I the consequence
Always saw what the end would be
We're as Nature has made us -- hence
I loved them until they loved me

Princes, never I'd give offense
Won't you think of me tenderly?
Here's my strength and my weakness, gents -
This, no song of ingénue
This, no ballad of innocence
This, the rhyme of a lady who



Credits
Writer(s): Dorothy Parker, Carla Bruni
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Those Dancing Days Are Gone
  2. Before the World Was Made
  3. Lady Weeping At the Crossroads
  4. I Felt My Life With Both My Hands
  5. Promises Like Pie-Crust
  6. Autumn
  7. If You Were Coming In the Fall
  8. I Went To Heaven
  9. Afternoon
  10. Ballade At Thirty-Five

All Album Tracks: No Promises >

Altri album

  1. Comme si c'était hier (versione estiva)
  2. Comme si c'était hier - Miss you - EP
  3. L’échappée belle – Dream Away - EP
  4. Carpe Diem - Desire - EP
  5. L’amoureuse – In the mood for love - EP
  6. Best Of
  7. Carla Bruni (Deluxe)
  8. Carla Bruni
  9. Le petit guépard
  10. Un grand amour - Single

All Albums of Carla Bruni >

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