In… Read Full Bio ↴Thomas Fersen is a French singer-composer born in 1963 in Paris.
In his youth, he joined a punk band, before playing the piano in cafés-théatre. His first album in 1993 brought him an immediate success.
Fersen is a poet, who enjoys playing with language -he writes his lyrics exclusively in french-, using words, rhymes, symbols and images of vegetal or animal world. He tells strange and funny stories, impressions and dreams of casual life. His smoker's deep voice gives a particular tone to his songs. His musical style varies from one album to another (rock, folk, jazz and blues..).
He is one of the first who joined the Tot Ou tard/WM France label.
Pour toi mon amour
Thomas Fersen Lyrics
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J'ai acheté des oiseaux
Je suis allé au marché aux fleurs
J'ai acheté des fleurs
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Pour toi mon amour
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Je suis allé au marché à la ferraille
J'ai acheté des chaînes
De lourdes chaînes
Pour toi mon amour
De très lourdes chaînes
Pour toi mon amour
Et puis, je suis allé au marché aux esclaves
Je t'ai cherchée, je ne t'ai pas trouvée
Oh mon amour
Des oiseaux, des fleurs,
Pour toi mon amour
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Et de lourdes chaînes
The song "Pour toi mon amour" by Thomas Fersen is a poetic expression of the complicated nature of love. The song opens with the singer going to the bird market to buy birds and the flower market to buy flowers. These are classic romantic gestures, and it appears as though the singer is doing all of this for the love of his life. He repeats the lines "Des oiseaux, des fleurs, pour toi mon amour" which means "birds, flowers, for you my love." It emphasizes the lengths the singer is willing to go to please his significant other.
However, the romantic tone of the song takes a dark turn when the singer says that he went to the scrap metal market and bought heavy chains. He repeats the line "De lourdes chaînes pour toi mon amour" which means "heavy chains for you my love." These chains symbolize the weight that love can put on a person and how it can be just as restricting as it is freeing.
And in the last verse, the singer takes a journey to find his lover at the slave market, only to be disappointed when he doesn't find her. The single line "Je t'ai cherchée, je ne t'ai pas trouvée, oh mon amour" which means "I looked for you, but didn't find you, oh my love" is powerful, as it encapsulates the loss one feels when love is not reciprocated. The song ends on an ominous note, with the singer leaving the listener to wonder what happened to the person he was looking for.
Line by Line Meaning
Je suis allé au marché aux oiseaux
I went to the bird market
J'ai acheté des oiseaux
And I bought some birds
Je suis allé au marché aux fleurs
I then went to the flower market
J'ai acheté des fleurs
And I bought some flowers
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Birds and flowers
Pour toi mon amour
For you my love
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Birds and flowers
Pour toi mon amour
For you my love
Je suis allé au marché à la ferraille
I went to the scrap market
J'ai acheté des chaînes
And I bought some chains
De lourdes chaînes
Heavy chains
Pour toi mon amour
For you my love
De très lourdes chaînes
Very heavy chains
Pour toi mon amour
For you my love
Et puis, je suis allé au marché aux esclaves
And then I went to the slave market
Je t'ai cherchée, je ne t'ai pas trouvée
I searched for you, but I didn't find you
Oh mon amour
Oh my love
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Birds and flowers
Pour toi mon amour
For you my love
Des oiseaux, des fleurs
Birds and flowers
Et de lourdes chaînes
And heavy chains
Contributed by Aiden V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.