Françoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu (It hurts to say goodbye) | L’amour, l’après-midi Éric Rohmer

SONG Comment te dire adieu by Françoise Hardy FILM L’amour, l’après-midi (Rohmer, 1971) contact for business estellemccartney@ “Comment te dire adieu“ (English: “How to Say Goodbye to You“) is a French adaptation of the song “It Hurts to Say Goodbye“. It was originally recorded by Françoise Hardy in 1968. Love in the Afternoon (original title: L’Amour l’après-midi and released in North America as Chloe in the Afternoon) is a 1972 French film by Éric Rohmer. It is the sixth and final movie in Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales“ series. An English-language remake starring Chris Rock, titled I Think I Love My Wife, was released in 2007. Neither film is a remake or derivative of Love in the Afternoon, a 1957 romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder. Françoise Hardy heard an “American instrumental version“ of the song and her manager asked Serge Gainsbourg to provide suitable lyrics for it.[6] The resultant “Comment te dire adieu“ was combined with an arrangement relatively closer to the Caravelli version and included on Hardy’s 1968 album. Hardy also recorded the song in Italian (“Il pretesto“, 1968) and German (“Was mach’ ich ohne dich“, 1970; collected in the album Träume, 1970.) The French lyrics are notable for their uncommon rhymes in “ex“, within the subject of the song having a sense of “ex“ as in “ex-boyfriend“. Sous aucun prétexte Je ne veux Avoir de réflexes Malheureux Il faut que tu m’expliques Un peu mieux Comment te dire adieu Mon cœur de silex Vite prend feu Ton cœur de pyrex Résiste au feu Je suis bien perplexe Je ne veux Me résoudre aux adieux Je sais bien qu’un ex-amour n’a pas de chance, ou si peu Mais pour moi un explication vaudrait mieux Sous aucun prétexte Je ne veux Devant toi surexposer mes yeux Derrière un kleenex Je saurais mieux Comment te dire adieu Comment te dire adieu Tu es mis à l’index, nos nuits blanches, nos matins gris-bleu Mais pour moi une explication vaudrait mieux Sous aucun prétexte Je ne veux Devant toi surexposer mes yeux Derrière un kleenex Je saurais mieux Comment te dire adieu Comment te dire adieu Comment te dire adieu