Great truth in those lyrics.This is a musical intermission for your pleasure and especially dedicated to all the ladies and gents who have loved younger men![]()
Dalida - I venait d'avoir 18 ans (1973)
Lyrics:
Il venait d'avoir dix-huit ans
Il était beau comme un enfant
Fort comme un homme
C'était l'été évidemment
Et j'ai compté en le voyant
Mes nuits d'automne
J'ai mis de l'ordre à mes cheveux
Un peu plus de noir sur mes yeux
Ça l'a fait rire
Quand il s'est approché de moi
J'aurais donné n'importe quoi
Pour le séduire
Il venait d'avoir dix-huit ans
C'était le plus bel argument de sa victoire
Il ne m'a pas parlé d'amour
Il pensait que les mots d'amour
Sont dérisoires
Il m'a dit "j'ai envie de toi"
Il avait vu au cinéma
"Le Blé en Herbe"
Au creux d'un lit improvisé
J'ai découvert, émerveillée
Un ciel superbe
Il venait d'avoir dix-huit ans
Ça le rendait presque insolent de certitude
Et pendant qu'il se rhabillait
Déjà vaincue, je retrouvais ma solitude
J'aurais voulu le retenir
Pourtant je l'ai laissé partir
Sans faire un geste
Il m'a dit "c'était pas si mal"
Avec la candeur infernale de sa jeunesse
J'ai mis de l'ordre à mes cheveux
Un peu plus de noir sur mes yeux
Par habitude
J'avais oublié simplement
Que j'avais deux fois dix-huit ans
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In English: He must have been eighteen
I think he must have been eighteen
He was as fragile as a dream
Strong as a man
Seeing the summer in his eyes
I felt my autumn as it flies
Like grains of sand
I added make-up to my face
As if to cover some disgrace
I saw him smiling
Rainbows and colours of the spring
I would have given anything
To win his loving
I think he must have been eighteen
A movie star on any screen
It made him careless
He never said a word of love
He thought that speaking about love
Was only worthless
And then as if the line were new
He simply whispered,
"I want you Let's stay together"
We drifted slowly through the night
I never knew a love more right
Not since, not ever
I think he must have been eighteen
It made him vain and almost mean
His looks abusing
Without a word he slowly dressed
Leaving me to my loneliness
My share of losing
I could have tried to make him mine
I let him go without a sign
My face was lying
He said, I am not the kind to fall
Love is for grown-ups after all
I felt like crying
I added make-up to my face
As if to cover some disgrace
I saw him smiling
I had forgotten in a dream
That I was almost twice eighteen
I just can't stand Snorts. But not because he is 25. Hell, my husband is 13 years older than me. So I have no room to talk about age!!
But when my sister was having her affair with a guy 18 years younger, my oldest son (who was just a tad younger than the marriage wrecker) said to me, " wow, she is just gonna have to keep spinning her wheels to keep him."
And she was. Jogging miles and miles per day. Golfing (she never golfed with her husband). She was worried about her hysterectomy because she said "she wouldn't be a woman anymore"
![Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes: 🙄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f644.png)
![Astonished face :astonished: 😲](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f632.png)
![Astonished face :astonished: 😲](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f632.png)
![Flushed face :flushed: 😳](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f633.png)
![Dizzy face :dizzy_face: 😵](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f635.png)
Now this younger man was just NOT a nice, good guy...that was the problem there ( but it takes one to know one) so I am not giving my narc sister a pass on that affair either.
I just recently saw a pic of Juliett Mills and her hubby and the age difference is really showing now.
Once we go thru menopause....EVERYTHING dries out. Including our skin.