Name: Désolé
Duration: P00H02M54S
Description: 'Désolé' is French for 'sorry'. It can also mean something more like 'heartbroken'. (Same root as 'desolation'.)

Ironbark - Désolé

from SpinTunes 20 Round 2 by Spintunes

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'Désolé' is French for 'sorry'. It can also mean something more like 'heartbroken'. (Same root as 'desolation'.)

lyrics

i remember the first time you made me play chess
you were dressed in a faded cravat
with your hat tilted just to one side
and you smiled as you knocked each pawn dead
and said
désolé

scraping the rust off my old high-school french
on a bench in the park i'd try to make sense
how a gent from paris came to be here in boring old melbourne
'we all have our ghosts' was the most you would say
waving questions away with a kindly but firm
désolé

désolé, désolé, désolé

then came the virus to lock us inside
and we try not to speak of the people who died
it was natural, they say
to just wither away all alone
all alone, mon ami
all alone, et je suis
désolé

so i'm leaving this pawn at the edge of your grave
in the shade of a headstone which i like to think
is your last little wink, bearing only one word:
désolé

désolé, désolé, désolé

credits

from SpinTunes 20 Round 2, released April 4, 2023

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