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La Madrague

from Covers by Julien Mueller

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A song about finding your perfect summer place and how you get all melancholic when you have to say good-bye knowing that you won't return for another year.

When singing this tune I have pictures pop up in front of my eyes. Moments of bike-tours and seasons I have spend in Sydney (Australia), Chiang Mai (Thailand) and La Rochelle (France). And with those memories comes certainty, that I will return to my favorite spots one day.

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Sur la plage abandonnée
Coquillage et crustacés
Qui l'eût cru déplorent la perte de l'été
Qui depuis s'en est allé
On a rangé les vacances
Dans des valises en carton
Et c'est triste quand on pense à la saison
Du soleil et des chansons

Pourtant je sais bien l'année prochaine
Tout refleurira nous reviendrons
Mais en attendant je suis en peine
De quitter la mer et ma maison

Le mistral va s'habituer
A courir sans les voiliers
Et c'est dans ma chevelure ébouriffée
Qu'il va le plus me manquer
Le soleil mon grand copain
Ne me brulera que de loin
Croyant que nous sommes ensemble un peu fâchés
D'être tous deux séparés

Le train m'emmènera vers l'automne
Retrouver la ville sous la pluie
Mon chagrin ne sera pour personne
Je le garderai comme un ami

Mais aux premiers jours d'été
Tous les ennuis oubliés
Nous reviendrons faire la fête aux crustacés
De la plage ensoleillée
De la plage ensoleillée
De la plage tout rochelais.

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ENGLISH translation:

On the abandoned beach
Seashells and shellfish
Who would have thought they’d deplore the loss of the summer
Which have since gone away

We put the holidays away
In cardboard-made suitcases
And it is sad when we think of the season
With sun and songs.

Though I know that next year
The flowers will bloom again and we will return
But meanwhile I am in sorrow
To leave the sea and my house

The mistral wind will get used to that
To blow without the sailing boats
And it is in my dishevelled hair
That I will miss the most
My dear friend, The Sun
Will only burn from far away
Believing that we are a little crossed
To be both separated

The train will take me along towards the autumn
To find the city under the rain
My grief is for no-one to share
I will keep it like a dear friend

But on the first days of summer
With all the problems forgotten
We will return to celebrate with the shellfish
On the sunny beach
On the sunny beach
On the beach of La Rochelle

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from Covers, track released October 14, 2014
Written by Brigitte Bardot

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