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This article examines the relations between literature and the song. More specifically, it analyzes Richard DesJardins's « Tu m'aimes-tu » from the vantage point of the semiotics of reception, with special attention to the relation between music and text. This song, which brought its author into the public eye, constitutes at its core a recital that draws together the narrative strands implied in the nine other pieces in the album of which it is part. Starting from a number of discrete givens relative to space, time and diegesis, the general schema underlying the piece can be reconstructed. Following the unfolding of the song as it impresses the hearer at its first hearing, the author examines the means whereby the sense of the song; is constructed out of the minimal information that it provides.