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Musicbrainz DBJe ne sais qu'une chose ; tu tiens
Ma joie, ma peine, entre tes mains
Tu es le souffle, le lien,
Mon enfant roi, mon magicien
[Refrain] :
Rien ne m'appartient
Mais au sud je reviens
Noyé dans le coeur des foules
C'est dans ton fleuve que je m'écoule
Quand tous les ponts d'or s'écroulent
C'est de ton air que je me saoule
[Refrain]
Les territoires inconnus
Je les parcours, je les inclus
Mon pays, mon sang, ma rue
Sont dans tes yeux, je les ai vus
Ma joie, ma peine, entre tes mains
Tu es le souffle, le lien,
Mon enfant roi, mon magicien
[Refrain] :
Rien ne m'appartient
Mais au sud je reviens
Noyé dans le coeur des foules
C'est dans ton fleuve que je m'écoule
Quand tous les ponts d'or s'écroulent
C'est de ton air que je me saoule
[Refrain]
Les territoires inconnus
Je les parcours, je les inclus
Mon pays, mon sang, ma rue
Sont dans tes yeux, je les ai vus
| IanThursby | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 19:00 Je t'aime |
| JIan (Phoenix, AZ, USA) | Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 14:08  Work break.... |
| dig | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 16:36 Is this like the French Iron and Wine or something? |
| ambrebalte (Wolxheim (France) - Beijing, Beijing again, soon) | Posted: Mar 18, 2013 - 03:04 I love this album! Quite different from the previous ones, but so good. Most of the band members are from Bordeaux area, most famous for their wines, South-West of France, and as most of the French having to be in the Capital for a reason or another, home is the dearest place, full of memories, roots and sprouts... Here is a translation by Lyricstranslate website (here http://lyricstranslate.com/fr/l039enfant-roi-king-child.html) The King ChildI only know one thing You are the breath, the link, Nothing belongs to me Drowned in the heart of crowds When all the golden bridges collapse Nothing belongs to me I run through and include My country, my blood, my street |
| k1j2cat | Posted: Mar 18, 2013 - 02:54 Such a cool sounding song... don't really need a translation! :) |
| Stromsky | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 08:27 waiting for "Le vent ..." bendame wrote: Bill, there are other songs on that album... Try "Le vent nous portera". |
| laozilover | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 06:11 ThePoose wrote: Is that so? Je me demande si vous avez cette opinion a cause de la fait que vous parlez seulement anglais. Laissez-moi--et tous les autres ici--tranquille, et va au diable! Capiche, Sparky? Sparky? Lol. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 17:58 Heard this alot on RP but it sounded great this time! |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 22:26 The sparse instrumental spaces are quite intoxicating. This is verrrrrrrrry entertaining. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 11:23 Nyahh. |
| merkin_muffley (Down the rabbit hole.....) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 11:16 Like this a lot. Just added the album to my Spotify. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:05 According to my comments below, I wasn't too crazy about this song, but man what a cool album cover! |
| JasonfromFrance | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 10:38 I knew there was a reason why I liked this station. How many American stations play such a good variety of international music? |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 11:20 bendame wrote: Bill, there are other songs on that album... Try "Le vent nous portera". They've been playing that here for quite a while already. Excellent stuff. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 22:31 fredriley wrote: I used to work in a language centre, with various French colleagues, including a wonderfully brassy young woman from near the Jura mountains. She revelled in her 'frogness', and I get the impression that the French are quite perversely proud of being 'les grenouilles' :o) I attend a Fete du Bois Festival near here and the hat de rigueur is a beret complete with froggy eyes. Mine however says "Arrogant Frog", not that I am even French, but I like their wines. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Nov 26, 2011 - 22:26 bendame wrote: Bill, there are other songs on that album... Try "Le vent nous portera". Indeed, it was Bill who introduced me to that track. |
| Uvoguine | Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 09:32 Awesome ! |
| bendame | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 15:42 Bill, there are other songs on that album... Try "Le vent nous portera". |
| Stingray (JULIAN'S NWO) | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 15:41 BEYOND EXELLENCE! "9" |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: May 21, 2011 - 16:31 Wizzuvvoz wrote: Thangs god it's being played on some American radios (that's how it might be said in our multicultural home). Just joking with the non-native English speakers. Lord knows I can turn any foreign language I try to speak into barfed up word salad (sorry for that unfortunate but accurate image). Often I can do the same with English and I'm 'nAmerican man, I really bet some people on this board wish I had a little more work to do today. Actually, I'm rather grateful for your comment - it made me laugh because I am so linguistically-challenged that I can barely speak English. I am, however, fluent in gobblydegook, and I'm mastering folderolandfiddlededee. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 02:54 jagdriver wrote: Seems the Frogs can poke fun at themselves.... a good thing, too, when I consider my great-great-grandmother whose maiden name was Gagnier. I used to work in a language centre, with various French colleagues, including a wonderfully brassy young woman from near the Jura mountains. She revelled in her 'frogness', and I get the impression that the French are quite perversely proud of being 'les grenouilles' :o) |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 02:51 25demayo wrote: maintenant je suit pres a aller dormir Bons rêves! :o) |
| michmargo (Brussels, Belgium) | Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 03:41 nice lyrics ... it's not just about the music, Bertrand Cantat is a very good songwriter |
| chadlymn (Apple Valley, MN) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 08:53 Depeche Mode rip off... big time! Blasphemous Rumours |
| Dude (Los Gatos, CA) | Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 13:40 merikh wrote: I think the chords are taken from Joan Osbourne! Spider Web from the album Relish 1995!!! Or maybe not.... The chords and the melody. I thought for sure it was just a translated version of Spider Web. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Nov 13, 2010 - 19:28 Led Zepplin: No quarter! That's it! |
| oldviolin (Esse quam videri) | Posted: Nov 13, 2010 - 19:27 dig |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 07:53 I hear "personal jesus", or is that "Jésus personnel?" peter_james_bond wrote: Depeche a la Mode? |
| Ntropy (Cleveland, OH) | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 11:10 I really need to buy this entire CD (MP3 album). Everything I hear of it just makes my ears perk up. |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 14:47 DMay wrote: Does anyone else think this sort of sounds like a French Iron and Wine? I can hear a similarity. I love this song! Only hear it here on RP — and my own collection now that I've downloaded it.  |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: May 06, 2010 - 21:15 French Days of the New? |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 14:01 peter_james_bond wrote: Depeche a la Mode?  |
| sirdroseph (Tokyo) | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 13:59 AdyMiles wrote: this song starts off well and is interesting, but is WAY too boring and repetitive for the last few minutes Yea, that is bout right.  |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Mar 31, 2010 - 15:17 Noir Desir - "Des Visages, Des Figures" Live (2002) |
| AdyMiles (Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Sep 12, 2009 - 03:51 this song starts off well and is interesting, but is WAY too boring and repetitive for the last few minutes |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 15:48 ick wrote: It's the French Depeche Mode! Depeche a la Mode? |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Jun 25, 2009 - 10:35 Zep wrote: you don't get style points for praising one artist by trashing another one. but I do hear you... Funny Zepper, forget the style points, just asking for a bit of new music!! |
| ick (San Diego, CA) | Posted: Jun 25, 2009 - 10:35 It's the French Depeche Mode! |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: May 08, 2009 - 12:02 claire_k wrote: This is a song that for sure is NEVER played on any french radios. Their hit on this album is n3: le vent nous portera. Cheers to RP once again for finding out unusual songs thats getting us to discover/ rediscover bands from another point of view!  Thangs god it's being played on some American radios (that's how it might be said in our multicultural home). Just joking with the non-native English speakers. Lord knows I can turn any foreign language I try to speak into barfed up word salad (sorry for that unfortunate but accurate image). Often I can do the same with English and I'm 'nAmerican man, I really bet some people on this board wish I had a little more work to do today. |
| 25demayo (dreaming of an asado) | Posted: May 08, 2009 - 11:58 maintenant je suit pres a aller dormir |
| claire_k | Posted: Apr 23, 2009 - 00:49 This is a song that for sure is NEVER played on any french radios. Their hit on this album is n3: le vent nous portera. Cheers to RP once again for finding out unusual songs thats getting us to discover/ rediscover bands from another point of view! |
| pdjpirate (Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!) | Posted: Apr 06, 2009 - 22:26 ThePoose wrote: What, no new comments from anyone since my last one (directly below) exactly one month ago? ThePoose, I got your comment right here... I am digging te groove brother! Salut!  |
| DeltaD (West Coast Canadia) | Posted: Mar 06, 2009 - 09:51 this is so different from the only other Noir Desir song i know! Tostaky. |
| ThePoose | Posted: Feb 02, 2009 - 20:24 What, no new comments from anyone since my last one (directly below) exactly one month ago? |
| ThePoose | Posted: Jan 02, 2009 - 05:04 Uncle_Fenester wrote: Per Google's language translator: "Is that so? I wonder whether you have this opinion because of the fact that you speak only English. Leave me—and all others here—quiet, and go to the devil!" (I was agreeing with The Poose) Thanks for agreeing with me; however, I have one small correction to your otherwise stellar translation: "tranquille" in this idiomatic usage means "alone," as in "leave me—and all the others here—alone, and go to hell" A la prochaine, mes amis. Salut ! The Poose |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Dec 17, 2008 - 15:15 flyboy wrote: I love frog jokes. 20+ years ago Detroit hosted its first honest-to-goodness Formula 1 Grand Prix event downtown. We knew the RenCen garage was being used as the race garage, so we started arbitrarily pulling on doors until, lo' and behold, one magically opened. Suddenly we walking amidst the most fabulous racing machines in the world, up-close-and-personal-like. The Lotus area featured large speakers, cranking out Hendrix' Voodoo Child for all to hear. I told my buddy, "Wait until we get to the frog garage," referring, of course, to the Renault team. He quickly hushed me, fearing we'd get evicted any moment. Well, once we got close, we both laughed hysterically when we saw the rubber frog dangling from the ceiling! Seems the Frogs can poke fun at themselves.... a good thing, too, when I consider my great-great-grandmother whose maiden name was Gagnier. |
| Zep (Hey! Where'd everybody go?) | Posted: Dec 01, 2008 - 14:38 jjbix wrote: a very cool and welcome addition to the playlist . . .now maybe RP will drop a few dozen david byrned out tracks?!?!? you don't get style points for praising one artist by trashing another one. but I do hear you... |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Oct 15, 2008 - 14:25 a very cool and welcome addition to the playlist . . .now maybe RP will drop a few dozen david byrned out tracks?!?!? |
| holborne (New York) | Posted: Oct 15, 2008 - 13:29 Very nice and evocative. |
| flyboy (Sarah Palin's Hometown) | Posted: Sep 29, 2008 - 13:53 Roach wrote: Love the frog synth-rock I love frog jokes. |
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