Saturday, January 19, 2019

Léo Ferré - You never say anything


Original Title: "Tu ne dis jamais rien"
Year: 1971
I see the world a bit like one sees the unbelievable
This what the unbelievable is, it's what we are not seeing
Flowers inside pencils, Debussy on the sand
In Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer which I do not know
The girls in iron at the bottom of the habits
And miners digging in their all warm bellies
Some bras with cats, some bosses in the South
Busy working hard for the workmen from Renault
Me, I thus live elsewhere in dimension four
With the comic book "At mc²"
I am Tomorrow, I am the Oak and I am the hearth
Come over to my place, my love, come to my place there is some fire
I'm flying for the skin on the rest area of the miseries
I am an old Boeing of the year eighty nine
I leave the flower at my teeth for the last war
My typewriter has a whole new suit
I see the stereo in the eye of a petite girl
Some pianos on some girl's bellies in Paris
A frozen chimpanzee singing my music
softly along with me, and you, you did not say anything

You never say anything, you never say anything
Sometimes you cry, like beasts cry
Without knowing why and who do not say a word
Like you, the eye elsewhere, celebrating me.

In your barren belly, I see some multitudes
I am Tomorrow. It's You the tomorrow of my life
I see some lost fiancees who are getting undressed
to the velvet of your voice that goes over the night
I see some tepid smells on cobbles out of a dream
In Paris when I am lying down in her bed
To see passing over me some girls and some sponges
Who sob of the sap of the age of foly
Me, I live thus elsewhere in the X dimension
With the comic book at a friend's home
I am Never I am Always I am the X
Of the love formula and of the boredom one
I see some blue tramways on some rails of sad children
Some chinese folding screens in front of the North wind
Some objects without purpose, some artist's windows
From which come out the sun, genius and death
Wait, I see very close an orphan star
Which comes inside your house to talk to you about me
I know her for a long while, she is my neighbor
But its light is illusory, like I am

And you do not say anything to me. You never say anything
But you shine in my heart like this star shines
With its lost fires in some far away paths
You never say anything like stars do.

You never say anything
You never say anything
You never say anything
You never say anything

Léo Ferré - You never say anything

Original Title: " Tu ne dis jamais rien " Year: 1971 I see the world a bit like one sees the unbelievable This what the unbeli...