Frogs in my throat
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It's 2:30AM, I'm sick and I can't sleep so I'm looking up old music I heard when I was growing up. This one is called "Les Crapauds," or "the Toads." Not the loveliest of topics you'd think, but it's oddly one of the most beautiful songs I know.
A sample translation (part of the last verse):
A sample translation (part of the last verse):When the moon plates varnished lacquer on the calm pools of the pale marshland
Then symbolic and melancolic, our slow hymn rises from the lilypads
1 comments:
Ah French. I believe that the floweriness-sans-cheesiness comes from the fact that the language IS flowery in and of itself, while English is a somewhat coarser language, and hence, floweriness can be reasonably taken as given.
@~ATD
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