Charlotte Forever Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg English Subtitles
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Uploaded by clairedelune49 on Jan 20, 2009
Based on the lovely piano composition Andantino by Aram Khatchaturian, Serge Gainsbourg composed the score for the 1986 film Charlotte For Ever, introducing his daughter by the English actress Jane Birkin, Charlotte. The film centers around the near incestuous love of a suicidal alcoholic Hollywood producer for his fifteen year old daughter. Thanks to the Word Reference Forum, the Lyrics Forum and especially to philipchek of YouTube, DailyMotion and Paris for help with this translation. It was he who discovered the musical source for this composition and helped me to appreciate the nuances of Gainsbourg's lyric.
* this apparently meaningless phrase "vu ni vu ni couleur" reminded four French speaking people of the idiom "ni vu ni connu" "not seen, not known" and so I have translated it as if it were a child's way of mis-speaking this idiom.
French lyrics:
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Petit papa rêveur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
À jamais dans mon coeur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Recherche dun never
More yes for ever
Tous les amours se meurent
Sans toi
Je n suis plus moi
J dérive à linfini
Sens-moi
Approche-toi
Amour de ma vie
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Amour outsider
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
No leader no dealer
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
De moi tu es lauteur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Es-tu à la hauteur
Sans toi
Je n suis plus moi
J dérive à linfini
Sens-moi
Approche-toi
Amour de ma vie
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Pitié pour moi mon coeur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Tu as gagné je pleure
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Papa papa jai peur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
De goûter ta saveur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Vu ni vu ni couleur
Charlotte
Charlotte for ever
Détournement d mineure
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Great music, arrangement and lyrics. I really appreciate the notes you added -very helpful. I must also respond to SaoirseYafa's comment about finding the "incestuous theme disturbing"...as if that were a Bad thing. As Clairedelune points out, "Gainsbourg means to be
disturbing". The subject is hardly disturbing in literature, but it is unusual in song. At least Serge makes a bit of an effort to rock the boat...more than can be said for most songwriters, of any time of any nationality.
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@rayito2005 hola tienes razon esta cancion es un joya por eso he escrito una cancion tambien en este tema " cet après midi là" puedes escucharla si quieres saludos de francia! fallen angel.
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Que bella melodia, Charlotte se parece a su madre y algo al padre.
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@whipthedog haha very funny!!! stupid man
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what is this movie about??
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I love Khwedotas very much and this is the best! They could have been a great couple for life. Lucky ones being born in France without any risk of percecution unlike those based on pure superstition occuring in other countries. The frenche revolution shed a light but it was Napoleon Bonaparte who fullfilled the task by legalizing this stuff. Let the next-of-kin marriage in here next!
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Well, it might be they never had sex (as said by charlotte) but I guess that's not because he didn't want to.. Just to scared to chase off his wife I think (who was pretty jealous of her husbands relationship with his daughter)
Anyway, very pretty song even though my french is horrible.
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Is it any wonder that Charlotte has done nude scenes since 15 and trash like Anti-Christ.
With this slime as a father and Birkin as a mother, she didnt have a chamce.
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The year was 1986. I was about 10 years old when I first listened to this song. At that time I hated it, I thought Serge Gainsbourg was vicious (un obsédé).
I grew up and learnd to appreciate Gainsbourg´s acid humour. We surely miss him in this boring politically correct world!
Bravo Serge! De ton fan de Rio de Janeiro / Brésil
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Exactement.
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The music is beautiful, but the incestuous theme is disturbing! I'v seen Charlotte in Jane Eyre; she was something else :-D
SaoirseYafa 3 years ago
Gainsbourg means to be disturbing; it's his specialty.
clairedelune49 3 years ago 4