"IRM" (2009)




Master's Hands lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

(Hey hey hey hey... hey hey hey hey...)

Hold my head up, right foot back
Take my hands down, shake my back
Pull my strings and cut my rope
Rattle my frame and shatter my ghost
And if I can't get back in line
They're gonna break me down 
Till the broad daylight comes through

Breathe out, come alive
Give me a reason to feel

Take my eyes and paint my bones
Drill my brain all full of holes
And patch it up before it leaks
These memories come two by three
And if I catch these master's hands
Could I spend my days on a discount revelry

Breathe out, come alive
Give me a reason to feel

IRM lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Take a picture, what's inside?
Ghost image in my mind
Neural pattern like a spider
Capillary to the centre

Hold still and press the button
Looking through a glass onion
Following the X-ray eye
From the cortex to medulla

Analyze EKG
Can you see a memory?
Register all my fear
On a flowchart disappear

Leave my head demagnetized
Tell me where the trauma lies
In the scan of pathogen
Or the shadow of my sin

Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Quand on est mort, c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Laissez-moi faisander un mois
Et de là jetez-moi au chat
Qu'il refuse ma rate et mon foie
Mais choisissez l'heure pour qu'il me mange le coeur

Que je reste encore avec vous
Sur vos épaules et vos genoux
Que je sois puisqu'il faut qu'on existe
Le chat du café des artistes

Et si le pain vient à manquer
Je serai là et n'hésitez pas
Brisez-moi les pattes et le cou
Et puis mangez-moi à même le chat

Ce ne sera pas la première fois
Qu'on aura mangé un artiste

Quand on est mort, c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand il a coupé la ficelle
On l'a mis dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Comme ils ont oublié le chat
Comme ils oublieront ma tête et mes chansons

Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois
Que l'on oubliera un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Comme ils ont oublié le chat
Comme ils oublieront ma tête et mes chansons

Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois
Que l'on oubliera un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Là là là là là là là là
Là là là là là là là là

In The End lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Help me to see
What it's all coming to
Crumbs on the table
And mud on these shoes
Treading so long
I can't see where we've been
Tracks on the trail
And nails digging in

Who's to say it's all for the best in the end

Some hands will rob you
And some hands will beg
Some say they'll stay 
Til the last dying day
But if actions can't speak
And words cannot do
What ten thousand armies
Can't even fight through

Who's to say it's all for the best in the end
Who's to say it's all for the best in the end

Heaven Can Wait lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

She's sliding, she's sliding down to the depth of the world 
She's fighting, she's fighting the urge to make a .... 

Heaven can wait 
and hell's too far ago 
Somewhere between 
what you need and what you know 
And they're trying to drive that escalator into the ground 

She's hiding, she's hiding on a battleship of baggage and bones 
There's thunder, there's lightening in an avalanche of faces you know 

Heaven can wait 
and hell's too far ago 
Somewhere between 
what you need and what you know 
And they're trying to drive that escalator into the ground 

You left your credentials in a greyhound station 
with a first aid kit and a flashlight 
Going to a ..... unknown 

Heaven can wait 
and hell's too far ago 
Somewhere between 
what you need and what you know 
And they're trying to drive that escalator into the ground

Me And Jane Doe lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

If I had my way
I'd cross the desert to the sea
Learn to speak in tongues something
That makes sense to you and me

I'd like to unplug the phone
Sending messages with a mirror
Stand on the old plateau
With a satellite dish and Geronimo's ghost

Down in the Rio Del Sol
I sunk my suitcase alone
Filed up the Amazon
With snakes and vines and ropes for my clothes

Me And Jane Doe and Rousseau
We've got nowhere to go
Walking through cactus and stones

Down in the city so cold
Shining like razors in the sun
You can go there anytime that you like
And try to find happiness from a gun

Vanities lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

You could have it all
You could pawn it off
You could learn to crawl
Where you used to walk

And I... I'm only burning vanities

You could tell a tale
You could sell it off
You could find a grail
Made of cinder block

And I... I'm only burning vanities

Time Of The Assassins lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I walk in a line
I see where I'm going
I turn inside out
The days that I've known
I face to myself
And give up the ghost
I turn in my mind
What time already knows

In the Time Of The Assassins
They say hallelujah
It doesn't take a miracle to raise a
Heart from the dead

I sift through the ash
I look for a sign
I open the wound
That keeps me in line
The shoulder that turns
The flame that goes out
The chapter I close

In the Time Of The Assassins
They say hallelujah
it doesn't take a miracle to raise a
Heart from the dead

And can something change
But still feel the same

Trick Pony lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Train, train
Come and gone
My rum coco
My cold empty
Shake, shake
Sugaree
Shoo, shoo fly
Don't come back again

X X the eyes
C. C. Rider riding
On the morning tide
To the fall horizon
Sic, sic the wolves
And hope it don't get ugly
A trick pony
He don't know me
He don't know me at all

Knock, knock
Go away
Pull the trigger
And see your shadow laughing
Transatlantic
There's no one there
It's no cold comfort
With your conscience calling

X X the eyes
C. C. Rider riding
On the morning tide
To the fall horizon
Sic, sic the wolves
And hope it don't get ugly
A trick pony
He don't know me
He don't know me at all

Greenwich Mean Time lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Crooked man down a crooked mile
Crooked backbone, crossed out smile
Crooked cat, crooked mouse
We live together in a crooked little house

We're all fine, we're all fine
We fit together like worms on a line
We're so good, we're so nice
We stick together like dirty horse flies

Crooked eyes, crooked tooth
Crooked mind bending back the truth
A crooked road on a crooked town
Looking down at the crumbs on the ground

We're all fine, we're all fine
We fit together like nickles on a dime
We're so good, we're so nice
We talk the mumbo jumbo Greenwich Mean Time

We're all fine, we're all fine
We fit together like nickles on a dime
We're so good, we're so nice
We talk the mumbo jumbo Greenwich Mean Time

Dandelion lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Red River, keep on rolling down
It's been a long time since I let my hair hang down
I'll take my time before I go under the ground
Oh dandelion, tell me what you're thinking now

Shape I'm in, I better get back home soon
I got one eye on the road and one eye on the big black moon
Dandelion, won't you tell me what to do

Ironsides rusting in the railroad rain
Now I found out what the Captain of the Morning was saying
Dandelion, better hope your mother's praying

Dumb luck is only the luck I ever knew
I'd make a wish but I don't think it'd ever come true
Dandelion, I guess I'll leave it up to you

Belle Starr, she doesn't have any shoes
She walks crooked and paints her eyelids blue
Dandelion, I wanna go there too

Voyage lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourge

Voyage au bout de la nuit
Voyage au bout de la nuit
Voyage au bout de la nuit

Plumes sauvages
Le mirage
Kerozene
Au gris gris
Rattlesnake
Cadillac
Race humaine
Espace vie 

Voyage au bout de la nuit

We could go au bout du monde 
Till the end of the night
We could go au bout du monde
Till the end of the night
Voyage au bout de la nuit
We could go, oh
Journey till the end of the world

Guitare noire
Lame rasoire
Porte bonheur
Accroche coeur
Vagabond
Bottle blond
Cicatrice
Sacrifice 

Voyage au bout de la nuit

We could go au bout du monde 
Till the end of the night
We could go au bout du monde
Till the end of the night
Voyage au bout de la nuit
We could go, oh
Journey till the end of the world

Voyage au bout de la nuit

La Collectionneuse lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I collect many things
And keep them all close to me
To the ceiling from the floor
I'm tripping on them constantly

Pixelated faces play 
On the blown out TV screen
Footage from a camera, 
These days I'm fast-forwarding

I see a pattern start to form
Over time it's surfacing
Like a face I recognize
It never says anything

I add up all these moments 
In a long narrow ledger
Decimals of pain
Integers of pleasure

The sum of all these parts
I don't know how to measure
They keep on adding up
They just keep on adding up

The collector, la collectioneuse
The collector, la collectioneuse
The collector, la collectioneuse
The collector, la collectioneuse

J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends

J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours

Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passe toutes les heures.

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu?
Comme un guetteur melancolique
J'observe la nuit et la mort

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Looking Glass Blues lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Think I'd like to climb down in a hole
down in the bottom of the world below
twist myself back out of sight
looking glass says have a look inside

drink a little bottle and I disappear
smaller I grow, smaller all my fears
I can fit inside the heard of anywhere
looking glass blues and I don't care

time ticks backwards and the day is null
borrowing dreams from a buying ground
stranded on a chest board, I can't move
and I don't even want to sing these backwards blues
backwards blues 
backwards blues

what can you see through a looking glass
the opposite of everything that you can't have
you can't have
good or bad

I see what exists outside myself
the absence of something that I know to well

now the fear is reaching like a hand in a glove
the ugliest thing inside a heard you can think of

I walk through a key big as the sun
past all meanings and the things we've done
counterfeit soul with an infant brain
cause that's how we gonna get along today

"5:55" (2006)




5:55 lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq 
Awake with open eyes 
A drift upon the night 
And miles away from land 

Five fifty five 
Five fifty five 

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq 
Ante meridiem 
Too late to end it now 
Too early to start again 

Five fifty five 
Five fifty five 

Soon the morning will arrive 
Can I begin another day 
Whilst this old day is still alive 
Refusing to be put away 

Five fifty five 
No sleep tonight 
Five fifty five 

Like a beast awaits its faith 
Laid here with time to kill 
The very dead of night 
Where time and space stand still 

Five fifty five 
Five fifty five 

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq 
Nothing will ever change 
On the altar of my thought 
I sacrifice myself again and again and again 

Five fifty five 
Five fifty five

AF607105 lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Melancholy 
Aviation 
Chocolate 
Perfume 
Cigarettes 
Frequent flyer 
Stow away 
Dislocation 
Sleeping 
Jets 
Wave goodbye 
Feel homesick 
Tranquilizers 
Bill of fare 
Cry easy 
Dvt 
Disappear into thin air 

[Chorus]
We wish you all a very happy pleasant flight 
This is a journey to the center of the night 
And the inflight entertainment's out of sight 
Here on af 607105 

Time difference 
You're waking 
Chase the sun into your eyes 

Sleeping cities 
Dust hotel rooms 
Passengers look to the skies 

Fly over 
Your lifetime 
And never touching down 

My heart 
Is breaking 
Somewhere over saskatchewan 

[Chorus]
We wish you all a very happy pleasant flight 
This is a journey to the center of the night 
And the inflight entertainment's out of sight 
Here on af 607105 

Your life in 
The wrong hands 
Savannah and frozen wastes 

The flight path 
The wingspan 
Below the earth rotates 

I love you 
I miss you 
I cannot see your face 

Invent a 
New persona 
Drunk here on the edge of space 

All the things I carry with me 
And all the things I left behind 
And all the things that wait to meet me 
Hover in the air tonight 

If I can only keep on moving 
And never stop and think of me 
And freefall through the years and decades 
Terminal velocity 

[Chorus]
We hope you had a very happy pleasant flight 
This is our final destination so goodnight 
Like a stone we are now falling from the sky 
Farewell from af 607105 

The cabin 
Is burning 
I smile and feel complete 

Here amongst 
Total strangers 
27 000 feet 

Suspended 
Isolation 
Kids throw toy planes in the street 

One final 
Blaze of glory 
Viewed from a window seat

The Operation lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I want to explore you 
I'm gonna get under your skin 
So you can feel me running through your veins 

I want to examine 
Every inch of your frame 
The pressure points that cause your joy and pain 

Our love goes under the knife 
There is no room for doubt 

Now I'm inside you 
My hands can feel their way 
Further inside than I have ever been 

Now I can really 
Mess around with your heart 
And fill it to the brim with broken dreams 

Our love goes under the knife 
Two lives may be saved 

And if I pull this off 
I'll refuse the nobel prize 
Instead I will look into your eyes 

If I pull this off your whole body will be mine 
And I'm prepared to work throughout the night 

Our love goes under the knife 
Nothing is taboo 
...here on the cutting edge of science 

Too much information 
I feel I'm getting lost 
Absorbed into the fibre of your soul 

Deep within the abbatoir 
Of your entrails your insides 
Lost in you forever far from home 

Our love goes under the knife 
Someone got too close 

Our love goes under the knife 
The heart was rejected by the host

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