"5:55" (2006)

• 5:55 lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• AF607105 lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• The Operation lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Tel Que Tu Es lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• The Songs That We Sing lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Beauty Mark lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Little Monsters lyrics - Charlotte gainsbourg
• Jamais lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Night-Time Intermission lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Everything I Cannot See lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Morning Song lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Set Yourself On Fire lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Tel Que Tu Es lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Quand tu t'en vas, 

Que tu n'es pas presse 

Ton corps se balance 

Sans importance 

Tel que tu es 

Sans dire un mot, 

Sans effort tu te moques 

Du decor tu es 

De temps en temps 

Tel que tu es 

Tu ne sais pas 

Ce que l'on dit de toi 

Tu t'en fous surtout 

N'y change rien 

Tel que tu es 

No one can tell 

What you say or do next 

Are you blessed%3f 

Maybe by me sometimes 

Come as you are

The Songs That We Sing lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I saw somebody who 

Reminded me of you 

Before you got afraid 

I wish that you could've stayed that way 

I saw a little girl 

I stopped and smiled at her 

She screamed and ran away 

It happens to me more and more these days 

And these songs that you sing 

Do they mean anything 

To the people you're singing them to 

People like you 

I saw a photograph 

A woman in a bath of hundred dollar bills 

If the cold doesn't kill her, money will 

I read a magazine 

That said by seventeen 

Your life was at an end 

I'm dead and I'm perfectly content 

And these songs that I sing 

Do they mean anything 

To the people I'm singing them to 

People like you 

And these songs that we sing 

Do they mean anything 

To the people we're singing them to 

Tonight they do

Beauty Mark lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I've got a beauty mark 

Written on my skin 

Close to my heart 

My favourite part 

My beauty mark 

I keep it out of sight 

Safe from the world outside 

This old battle scar 

This secret part 

My beauty mark 

This little death 

This mark of sin 

Forever printed on my skin 

I'll keep it for you 

This hidden place 

This private part 

This secret door into my heart 

I'll keep it for you 

This precious jewel 

This darling bud 

This tiny reservoir of blood 

My beauty mark 

I'll keep it for you

Little Monsters lyrics - Charlotte gainsbourg

In the playground 

Children sing their songs and skin their knees 

Play, little monsters, play 

I remember doing just the same so many years ago 

And the things they'd say 

I could handle sticks and stones 

But those words still break my bones 

[Chorus]

Little monsters that rule the world 

You don't know what you're really saying 

Stop before someone ends up getting hurt 

Can't you see that we're only playing 

I remember I was just another monster without life 

'til the day you came 

Dirty creatures, tiny animals that crawl towards the light 

Don't you ever change 

[Chorus]

Little monsters that rule the world 

You don't know what you're really saying 

Stop before someone ends up getting hurt 

Can't you see that we're only playing 

One day you will have to go 

You'll have to learn to live alone 

[Chorus]

I can't hold your hand anymore 

I can't always kiss you better 

Time to stand on your own two feet 

Time to see just where they get you 

Deep inside I'm still the same 

Just one more little monster 

Making out that she knows the rules 

A sincere impostor

Jamais lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I told you before that this is the end 

You'll never work in this town again 

Jamais 

You think you know me, that's your trouble 

Never fall in love with a body double 

Jamais 

I stick to the script and I go with the plan 

And frankly my dear I never gave a damn 

Jamais 

Never even scratched the surface, 

Though you're picking through my bones 

It's the performance of a lifetime 

It's my only starring role 

Your leading lady needs direction 

Your leading lady sleeps alone 

You got the surface and substance confused 

Don't believe what you read in those interviews 

Jamais 

I can act like I'm dumb, I can act like I'm clever 

You thought that was me ? oh well, I never 

Jamais 

So just what is real and just what is fake ? 

Well in life you never get to do a second take 

Jamais 

Never even scratched the surface 

Though you're picking through my bones 

Though the names and dates are altered 

The story's still my own 

The performance of a lifetime 

My only starring role 

In a cast of many thousands 

No one's essential to the plot 

Every extra, every superstar 

Must now vacate the lot 

In the performance of a lifetime 

I make the final cut

Night-Time Intermission lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Night 

Nighttime intermission 

Personal inquisition 

Nocturnal emission 

Just talking to myself

Everything I Cannot See lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

I feel you all around me 

You are everything I cannot see 

As the ocean crawls onto the shoreline 

So you lap at the edges of me 

And now, as I'm walking 

I know that you're watching me move 

For as much as I need you 

I must walk away from you 

You're my life, you're my hope 

You're the chain, you're the rope 

You're my god, you're my hell 

You're the sky, you're myself 

You're the reason I'm living 

You're all that I have to discover 

You're the rain, you're the stars 

You're so near, you're so far 

You're my friend, you're my foe 

You're the miles left to go 

You are everything I ever wanted 

And you are my lover 

So I carry I carry the flowers 

The flowers that are dead in my hands 

They will rise up at the very sight of you 

They will naturally understand 

That today is the day 

That we find out once and for all 

Now you know I must leave here 

You must let me stand or fall 

You're my life, you're my hope 

You're the chain, you're the rope 

You're my god, you're my hell 

You're the sky, you're myself 

You're the reason I'm living 

You're all that I have to discover 

You're the rain, you're the stars 

You're so near, you're so far 

You're my friend, you're my foe 

You're the miles left to go 

You are everything I ever wanted 

And you are my lover 

If I leave will you follow can I put my faith in you 

You're my life, you're my hope 

You're the chain, you're the rope 

You're my god, you're my hell 

You're the sky, you're myself 

You're the reason I'm living 

You're all that I have to discover 

You're the rain, you're the stars 

You're so near, you're so far 

You're my friend, you're my foe 

You're the miles left to go 

You are everything I ever wanted 

And you are my lover 

And I love you now 

As I loved you then 

But this island life 

Just had to end 

But you will allways be 

My special friend 

I will carry you with me 

And we can love again 

Now the drizzle 

Soaks us to the skin 

And the stars hang like a noose 

So let's face this together 

Now this storm is finally though 

You're my life, you're my hope 

You're the chain, you're the rope 

You're my god, you're my hell 

You're the sky, you're myself 

You're the reason I'm living 

You're all that I have to discover 

You're the rain, you're the stars 

You're so near, you're so far 

You're my friend, you're my foe 

You're the miles left to go 

You are everything I ever wanted 

And you are my lover

Morning Song lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Last night I saw a ghost

He seemed familiar to me

I welcomed him

With open arms

He said my name

And laid me down

Awoke the dreams still sleeping in my bones

You are my precious ghost

I close my eyes to see

I've touched you once again

You spent the night with me

Guilty were our pleasures

Nameless was our crime

Come back my forbidden ghost

One more time

You must leave I understand

So tell your lie to me

How in the morning everything will be alright

Yeah but to get to the morning first you have to get through the night

Set Yourself On Fire lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Now come and stand

See the sights and warm your hands

And fan the flame inside of me

Been burning all my life

So come and set my house alight

Yeah, come and set my spirit free

Now all is ashes

This moribund parade of asses

So shake it one more time for me

So take these matches off of me

And set yourself on fire

Fire

Coffee at the floor

It seemed just like the day before

The waiter winked and smiled at me

The couple at the bar

He burned his britches, she burned her bra

Now somebody has burned the car

Sulphur in the air

And cracks appearing everywhere

Don't try to stop it, don't you dare

Now see,

That everything must fall that we may live again

So take these matches off of me

And set yourself on fire

Fire

Fire

Fire

Now it's so clear to me

This bonfire of the vanities

So come on everybody, scream

A purifying flame

And you and I can take the blame

A spirit that cannot be tamed

Now see,

That everything must fall that we may live again

So take these matches off of me

And set yourself on fire

Fire [x7]

Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping lyrics - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Without blindness

There is no sight

You'd see the further if you'd only close your eyes

In unconsciousness

I can find peace

Inside prison walls I can find release

There is a place that I've seen

Somewhere between waking and sleeping

Down at the water's edge

Somebody waits for me

Is it too late for me?

"It's never too late", he says

Without blindness

Without blindness

there is no sight

there is failure

I'd see further

people gather

if I

by the river

close my eyes

they were talking

about the failure

There is a place that I've seen

Somewhere between waking and sleeping 

Leaning up (?) overside

Trailing my fingertips

Watching the water slip

Into the quiet night

Viewed from the wrong end of the telescope

I see myself

So far below

Still and silent

Rest in peace

A thread unravels

Such merciful release

There is a place that I've seen

Somewhere between waking and sleeping 

Now I can all but see

Figures upon the shore

He's gathering enemies (?)

Where are you taking me?