Before The World Was Made lyrics - Carla Bruni

If I make the lashes dark

And the eyes more bright

And the lips more scarlet

Or ask if all be right

From mirror after mirror

No vanity is displayed

I'm looking for the face I had

Before the world was made

I'm looking for the face I had

Before the world was made

What if I look upon a man

As though on my beloved

And my blood be cold the while

And my heart unmoved?

Why should he think me cruel

Or that he is betrayed?

I'd have him love the thing that was

Before the world was made

I'd have him love the thing that was

Before the world was made

Lady Weeping At The Crossroads lyrics - Carla Bruni

Lady, weeping at the crossroads

Would you meet your love

In the twilight with his greyhounds

And the hawk on his glove?

Bribe the birds then on the branches

Bribe them to be dumb

Stare the hot sun out of heaven

That the night may come

Starless are the nights of travel

Bleak the winter wind

Run with terror all before you

And regret behind

Run until you hear the ocean's

Everlasting cry

Deep though it may be and bitter

You must drink it dry

Wear out patience in the lowest

Dungeons of the sea

Searching through the stranded shipwrecks

For the golden key

Push into the world's end, pay the

Dread guard with a kiss

Cross the rotten bridge that totters

Over the abyss

There stands the deserted castle

Ready to explore

Enter, climb the marble staircase

Open the locked door

Cross the silent empty ballroom

Doubt and danger past

Blow the cobwebs from the mirror

See yourself at last

Put your hand behind the wainscot

You have done your part

Find the penknife there and plunge it

Into your false heart

I Felt My Life With Both My Hands lyrics - Carla Bruni

I felt my life with both my hands

To see if it was there

I held my spirit to the glass

To prove it possibler

I turned my being round and round

And paused at every pound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

I judged my features, jelled my hair

I pushed my dimples by

And waited if they twinkled back

Conviction might of me

I turned my being round and round

And paused at every pound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

I told myself take courage, friend

That was a former time

But we might learn to like the Heaven

As well as our old home

I turned my being round and round and round

Paused at every pound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

To ask the owner's name

For doubt that I should know the sound

I felt my life with both my hands

To see if it was there

Promises Like Pie-Crust lyrics - Carla Bruni

Promise me no promises
So will I not promise you
Keep we both our liberties
Never false and never true
Let us hold the die uncast
Free to come as free to go
For I cannot know your past
And of mine what can you know?

You, so warm, may once have been
Warmer towards another one
I, so cold, may once have seen
Sunlight, once have felt the sun
Who shall show us if it was
Thus indeed in time of old?
Fades the image from the glass
And the fortune is not told

If you promised, you might grieve
For los liberty again
If I promised, I believe
I should fret to break the chain
Let us be the friends we were
Nothing more but nothing less
Many thrive on frugal fare
Who would perish of excess

Autumn lyrics - Carla Bruni

There is a wind where the rose was

Cold rain where sweet grass was

And clouds like sheep, stream o'er the steep

Grey skies where the lark was

Where the lark was

Naught gold where your hair was

Naught warm where your hand was

But phantom's forlorn beneath the thorn

Your ghost where your face was

Where your face was

Sad winds where your voice was

Tears, tears where my heart was

And ever with me, child, ever with me

Silence where hope was

Where hope was

There is a wind where the rose was

There is a wind where the rose was

If You Were Coming In The Fall lyrics - Carla Bruni

If you were coming in the fall

I'd brush the summer by

With half a smile and half a spurn

As housewives do a fly

If I could see you in a year

I'd wind the months in balls

And put them each in separate drawers

Until their time befalls

If only centuries delayed

I'd count them on my hand

Subtracting till my fingers dropped

Into Van Dieman's land

If certain, when this life was out

That yours and mine should be

I'd toss it yonder like a rind

And taste eternity

But now, all ignorant of the lengths of time

Uncertain wing, it goads me like

The goblin bee

That will not state its sting

If only centuries delayed

I'd count them on my hand

Subtracting till my fingers dropped

Into Van Diemen's land

If certain, when this life was out

That yours and mine should be

I'd toss it yonder like a rind

And taste eternity

If you were coming in the fall

I'd brush the summer by

With half a smile and half a spurn

As housewives do a fly

If only centuries delayed

I'd count them on my hand

Subtracting till my fingers dropped

Into Van Diemen's land

If certain, when this life was out

That yours and mine should be

I'd toss it yonder like a rind

And taste eternity

If you were coming in the fall

I'd brush the summer by

With half a smile and half a spurn

As housewives do a fly

I Went To Heaven lyrics - Carla Bruni

I went to Heaven

'Twas a small town

Lit with a ruby

Lathed them with down

Stiller than the fields

At the full dew

Beautiful as pictures

No man drew

No man drew

People like the moth

Of melchin frames

Duties of gossamer

And eider names

Almost contented

I could be

'Mong such a unique

Society, society

'Twas a small town

Lathed them with down

Afternoon lyrics - Carla Bruni

When I am old, and comforted

And done with this desire

With memory to share my bed

And peace to share my fire

I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands

Beneath my laundered cap

And watch my cool and fragile hands

Lie light upon my lap

And I will have a sprigged gown

With lace to kiss my throat

I'll draw my curtain to the town

And hum a purring note

And I'll forget the way of tears

And rock, and stir my tea

But oh, I wish those blessed years

Were further than they be!

Ballade At Thirty-Five lyrics - Carla Bruni

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 -

I loved them until they loved me

At Last The Secret Is Out lyrics - Carla Bruni

At last the secret is out

As it always must come in the end

The delicious story is ripe to tell

To tell to the intimate friend

Over the tea-cups and into the square

The tongues has its desire

Still waters run deep, my dear

There's never smoke without fire

Behind the corpse in the reservoir

Behind the ghost on the links

Behind the lady who dances

And the man who madly drinks

Under the look of fatigue

The attack of migraine and the sigh

There is always another story

There is more than meets the eye

For the clear voice suddenly singing

High up in the convent wall

The scent of the elder bushes

The sporting prints in the hall

The croquet matches in summer

The handshake, the cough, the kiss

There is always a wicked secret

A private reason for this