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Artist: Allain Leprest
Canonical path: /allain-leprest/le-cotentin
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Le Cotentin
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Le Cotentin
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Janvier, le Cotentin
Toute la côte est blanche
Et sa tête de chien
Hurle contre la Manche
J'y allais pour guérir
Des peines inguérissables
Poncer des souvenirs
Contre les grains de sable
Et la mer bonne fille
La gorge à deux longueurs
Des crocs de la presqu'île
Me nettoyait le coeur
Le Cotentin l'hiver
Où les chagrins vont boire
Jette vers l'Angleterre
Son profil de clébard
J'écoutais dans un bock
Des airs made in british
Et la pointe du roc
S'endormait dans sa niche
Et la mer bonne fille
Au bras de Mick Jagger
Sous le phare de Granville
M'illuminait le coeur
L'hiver, au Cotentin
L'eau met le ciel en pièces
Mais la brise retient
Son cou de chien en laisse
Pauvre pèlerinage
Ma mémoire en kaki
Traversait à la nage
Un quadruple whisky
Et la mer bonne fille
Remorquant ses r'morqueurs
Me prêtait ses béquilles
Pour m'étayer le coeur
L'hiver, le Cotentin
J'en repartais tout seul
En laissant mon chagrin
Comme un os dans sa gueule
Du sable rugissant
Un verre de bière amer
Des mouettes traversant
Un tableau de Vermeer
Et la mer bonne fille
Me laissait sans rancœur
Les trous de ses guenilles
Pour me boucher le coeur
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