Autumn Leaves
Patricia Kaas Lyrics

The lyrics to Patricia Kaas's song Autumn Leaves portray the transition from summer to autumn and how memories of a past love still linger. The falling leaves outside the window symbolize the end of something as well as the onset of something new. The changing colors of the leaves from green to red and gold are just like the seasons of love where everything is in constant change. The lyrics evoke the feelings of nostalgia and a loss of a loved one. The summer kisses and sunburned hands that the singer used to hold are now just memories. The days grow long and soon winter will creep up, but it is the autumn leaves' fall that the singer misses the most.

The second verse of the song is in French and is translated as "It's a song, which resembles us. You loved me and I loved you. We lived together, both of us. You who loved me, me who loved you. But life separates those who love each other, gently, without making noise. And the sea erases, on the sand, the steps of separated lovers." The French lyrics follow the same vein as the English ones, however, this time, it takes a more melancholic tone. It evokes the feeling of constant separation, that whenever two people grow too close, something happens to push them apart. In the end, it is like footsteps that the sea erases as if two people never met.

Overall, Autumn Leaves is a melancholy song, singing of the fleeting nature of love and how winter will come, but the autumn leaves' fall is what the singer will miss the most.