SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Carla Bruni lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Carla Bruni Lyrics for Song: Ballad At Thirty-Five Lyrics for Album: No Promises [2007] This, no song of ingenue This, no ballad of innocence This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever the natural bents This, a solo of sapience This, a chantey of sophistry This, the sum of experiments I loved them until they loved me Decked in garments of sable hue, Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents Wearing shower bouquets of rue Walk I ever in penitence Oft I roam, as my heart repents Through God's acre of memory Marking stones, in my reverence "I loved them until they loved me" Pictures pass me in long review Marching columns of dead events I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be We're as Nature has made us hence I loved them until they loved me Princes, never I'd give offense, Won't you think of me tenderly ? Here's my strength and my weakness, gents I loved them until they loved me. Album Lyrics: No Promises [2007] Carla Bruni "No Promises [2007]" 1. Those Dancing Days Are Gone 2. Before The World Was Made 3. Lady Weeping At The Crossroads 4. I Felt My Life With Both My Hands 5. Promises Like Pie-Crust 6. Autumn 7. If You Were Coming In The Fall 8. I Went To Heaven 9. Afternoon 10. Ballad At Thirty-Five 11. At Last The Secret Is Out