Kaas is currently on a world tour since the end of 2008 to promote her latest album kabaret. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia and finished 8th with the song et s'il fallait le faire. The song received positive reviews in several newspapers and polls and a clear majority of 62% of all voters in a questionnaire believed in her chances to win the competition.
La mer
Patricia Kaas Lyrics
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Qu'on voit danser, le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
La mer
Ses blancs moutons
Avec les anges si purs
La mer bergère d'azur
Infinie
Voyez
Près des étangs
Ces grands roseaux mouillés
Voyez
Ces oiseaux blancs
Et ces maisons rouillées
La mer
Les a bercés
Le long des golfes clairs
Et d'une chanson d'amour
La mer
A bercé mon coeur pour la vie
The song "La Mer" by Patricia Kaas is a beautiful ode to the ever-changing and mesmerizing sea. The lyrics describe how the sea dances along the clear bays, shimmering with silver reflections, and how it changes its hues under the rain. The sea is an ever-confusing entity and Kaas equates it to the summer sky, where it blends its white waves with the pure white clouds making it hard to distinguish what's below and what's above. The sea is a never-ending deep blue aura and is like a shepherdess of the heavens with its infinite nature.
The second verse of the song brings out the poetic beauty of the sea. The song talks about the marshlands near the sea where the tall wet reeds and the run-down houses stand, and how the white birds contrast beautifully against the rusted houses. The sea embraces everything near it and sings a loving song, rocking them in its embrace. The song ends poignantly, with the singer professing that since the sea has cradled her heart with its love, she will remain a devoted inamorata of the sea for life.
Overall, the song is a celebration of nature's beauty and how its vastness and constant transformative nature can be a nurturing force for the soul.
Line by Line Meaning
La mer
The sea
Qu'on voit danser, le long des golfes clairs
That we see dancing, along clear bays
A des reflets d'argent
Has reflections of silver
Des reflets changeants
Changing reflections
Sous la pluie
Under the rain
Au ciel d'été confond
Confuses itself with the summer sky
Ses blancs moutons
Its white sheep
Avec les anges si purs
With the angels so pure
La mer bergère d'azur
The azure shepherdess sea
Infinie
Infinite
Voyez
See
Près des étangs
Near the ponds
Ces grands roseaux mouillés
These wet tall reeds
Voyez
See
Ces oiseaux blancs
These white birds
Et ces maisons rouillées
And these rusty houses
Les a bercés
Rocked them
Le long des golfes clairs
Along clear bays
Et d'une chanson d'amour
And with a love song
La mer
The sea
A bercé mon coeur pour la vie
Rocked my heart for life
Contributed by Layla R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.