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Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Canonical path: /gainsbourg-charlotte/la-collectionneuse
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La Collectionneuse
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La Collectionneuse
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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 a blown out TV screen
Footage from a camera
These days I'm fast fowarding
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 theses moments
In along narrow ledger
Decimals of pain
Intergers of pleasure
The sum of all these parts
I don't how to measure
They keep on adding up
They just keep on adding up
The collector
La collectionneuse
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
Le cadavre de mes jours
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
Et toi mon cœur 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
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
Le cadavre de mes jours
Et toi mon cœur 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
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
Et toi mon cœur pourquoi bats-tu
Comme un guetteur mélancolique
J'observe la nuit et la mort
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Charlotte Gainsbourg performs "La Collectionneuse", and this lyric page sits inside the Charlotte Gainsbourg catalog on LyroVerse.
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