quelqu'un m'a dit

Recently, listened to this song by Carla Bruni again from my francophile days. I was prolly around 20 years of age when I first heard it. At the time, it was merely a beautiful love song used as a linguistic exercise but my classmate Andrea and I fell in love with it that summer in Lyon during a language immersion course, learning the song by heart and even doing harmonies with it. Now married and older, this song has a beautiful complexity, aging like fine wine. It's a song about duality - about hope amidst negativity, about patience amidst yearning, about the simplicity and greatness of an enduring love. all this, without Carla uttering a single ILY. It's come to my aid in a moment where I find myself a little in the weeds and reminded me to have patience and be humble in the sweetest of ways. Thank you past Joyce for learning this song <3