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Friday 24 September 2010

Coralie Clément - It's life
C'est la vie

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It's life It's the life we're living No directions given by the passers-by It's life It's life this bitch Which w...
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Sunday 19 September 2010

Brigitte Fontaine - Prohibition

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I was showing my senior card Under the mocking looks of those pigs Who started an obscene laugh At my siren shape I am old and go fu...
Wednesday 15 September 2010

Zaz - The Fairy
La fée

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Me too, I have a fairy at home Out on the dripping gutters I found her on a roof Wrapped in her burning train It was one morning, it ...
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Monday 13 September 2010

Emily Loizeau - I am jealous
Je suis jalouse

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I cried for hours On your box of cookies The one with the letters The pictures of New Hampshire Your romantic trip With Adèle de Baye...
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Sunday 12 September 2010

Barbara - Göttingen

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Of course, it's not la Seine It's not Vincennes' wood, But it is pretty anyway In Göttingen, in Göttingen. No quays, and ...
Saturday 4 September 2010

Camelia Jordana - No, no, no (Listen to Barbara)
Non, non, non (Ecouter Barbara)

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How many times should I say, with style, I don't want to go to the Baron No, no, no I don't want to go out No, no, no I don...
Friday 20 August 2010

Zaz - I want
Je veux

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Give me a suite at the Ritz hotel, I don't want that Chanel's jewellery, I don't want that Give me a limo, what would I do with ...

Mecano - A woman with a woman
Une femme avec une femme

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Two women holding hands Cannot bother the morality The doubt settles down When this gesture happens under the table. When they are alone, ha...
Thursday 19 August 2010

Renan Luce - The girls next door
Les voisines

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I always prefered the girls next door to the guys The girls' puppet shadows undulate behind the window blinds For myself I invented a pa...
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Georges Moustaki - My solitude
Ma Solitude

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I slept so many times with my solitude, It almost became a friend, a gentle habit. It doesn't leave me, its as faithful as a shadow. It ...
Monday 2 August 2010

It is too late
Il est trop tard - Georges Moustaki

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Georges Moustaki Il est trop tard While I was asleep, while I was dreaming The hands of the clock have turned. It is too late. My childhood ...
Saturday 1 May 2010

Ariane Moffatt - Je veux tout
I want everything

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I want everything You and the others too In all my life There are no price tags on hearts I want everything Right now right here I want ever...
Monday 24 August 2009

Brel - Those people
Ces gens-là

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First, there is the oldest son Who is shaped like a melon Who has a big nose Who doesn't know his name anymore Sir, Because he drinks so...

Noir Désir - Marlène

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Oh Marlene Hearts are bleeding And hanging at the top your stockings Oh Marlene In your veins Runs the love of the soldiers When they are dy...
Wednesday 19 August 2009

Coeur de Pirate - Like children
Comme des enfants

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Coeur de Pirate "Comme des enfants" So now you see, how everything is mingling From the heart to your lips, I am becoming a brain-...
Monday 10 August 2009

Fréhel - The last of the last
La Der des Der

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Fréhel LA DER DES DER Every Sunday and often on Saturdays We meet at the popular dance This is the joy of our life It gives life a festive a...
Tuesday 4 August 2009

Pigalle - The bar, Martyrs Street
Le bar tabac de la rue des Martyrs

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In the bar, Martyrs Street Night girls are waiting for the day, selling pleasure, Drunkards are opening their heart, Sliding slowly from the...
Monday 3 August 2009

Soumia - Your silence
Ton Silence

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I wasted all my tears, Without breaking your silence Even if it freezes and condemns me This time, I will go straight to the point In my def...

Zazie - I send flying
J'envoie valser

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I see some who give, Give to each other jewellery It's beautiful But it's only rocks Stones that role and role And flow on the cheek...

Oldelaf et Monsieur D - The Coffee
Le café

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To kick start my day and to wake myself up, I had a coffee An arabica, black and strong I slip my parka on, I'm ready to go "Where ...

Marie Laforêt - Come, Come
Viens, viens

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(Come, come) This is a prayer (Come, come) not for me my father (Come, come) come back for my mother (Come, come) she is dying of you (Come,...
Thursday 30 July 2009

Julio Iglesias - You Women
Vous les femmes

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You women, you the charm Your smiles attract us, move us You angels, adorable And we men are poor devils We surround you with thousands of r...
Thursday 23 July 2009

Charles Aznavour - To die of love
Mourir d'aimer

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The walls of my life are smooth I hang on to it but I slide Slowly towards my fate: To die of love While the world is judging me I can see o...
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Thursday 4 June 2009

Les VRP - Ramon Perez

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Tonight... You went to bed at nine o'clock In your little heart lays happiness The light sheets stroke your hair The whole building felt...
Thursday 28 May 2009

Françoise Hardy - Personnel message
Message personnel

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At the end of the line is the sound of your voice and the words that I never shall say those words that people fear when they don't mak...
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Wednesday 27 May 2009

Julio Iglesias - I haven't changed
Je n'ai pas changé

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I haven't changed I am still this stranger Who was singing ballads to you Who was inventing Sundays for you Who makes you travel I haven...

Nana Mouskouri - Make a fire
Fais du feu

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It has been snowing in Port-au-Prince It still raining in Chamonix One fords the Garonne The sky is blue in Paris Winter is upset my friend ...
Monday 25 May 2009

Zazie - I send flying
J'envoie valser

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I see some who give, Give to each other jewellery It's beautiful But it's only rocks Stones that role and role And flow on the cheek...

Téléphone - The Human Bomb
La bombe humaine

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I want to talk to you about the wheapon of tomorrow Born from the world, it will be its ending I want to talk to you about myself About your...
Sunday 24 May 2009

Les VRP - Leo

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When her mother gave birth to Leo She died right away In the rubbles of a bar It was war He grew up we don't know how Inventing for hims...
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