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Charlotte Gainsbourg - La Collectionneuse

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Uploaded by on Feb 27, 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg - La Collectionneuse

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

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

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

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

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

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  • She is a true artist in every sense of the word. I wonder if she ever thought about directing.

  • Beautiful! Has a feel slightly similar to The Fountain Soundtrack... especially in the middle.

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  • make sure its at 480 before you start

  • @maudyx12 Oh. Cool, then.

  • @chubzitruffle Feel you could do better? I am always looking to improve my english skill so please go ahead and show me how it could be done better. I just checked how google would translate it and it makes no sense at all. Glad I didn't use it in the first place.

  • magnifique chanson,quoiqu'en disent ses détracteurs.

  • Aucune voix. Elle ne peut chanter que ce genre de chanson sur le meme ton. Je ne comprends pas tant d'euphorie pour si peu de talent. Elle est laide en plus.

  • @vacheperdu Same here!! This song is brilliant!! 

  • Chuvinha maravilhosa um baseado aceso e Charlotte.....

  • je ne m'en lasse pas... exeptionnel chez moi, surtout vu le nombre de fois écouté, ensorcelant, j'adore..

  • @maudyx12 Your best involves a piss-poor Google translation?

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