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Woodkid — I Love You
Album: The Golden Age
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Total ratings: 1426









Released: 2013
Length: 3:45
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Where the light shivers offshore
Through the tides of oceans
We are shining in the rising sun

As we are floating in the blue
I am softly watching you
Oh boy your eyes betray what burns inside you

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?

After all I drifted ashore
Through the streams of oceans
Whispers wasted in the sand

As we were dancing in the blue
I was synchronized with you
But now the sound of love is out of tune

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?
[x2]
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This geezer must be earning some serious wedge.  His stuff is everywhere on British TV these days.  Rightly so, too, it's great.
 yofitofu wrote:

The video for the song is directed by the artist and is utterly spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu8FOjJXdI 

nice cut where the rock formation resembled organ pipes

I imagine if I composed music that it'd be like this, love this fella's work.
we want more, more!
Watch this - highly recommended
Woodkid et l'Orchestre national de Lyon aux Nuits de Fourvière
 yofitofu wrote:
The video for the song is directed by the artist and is utterly spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu8FOjJXdI 

 
Absolutely agreed. Stunning video.
Let the bells ring ...
what a great chorus in this song!   so ear catching.  
 willmcnaught wrote:

lol A Debra Harry album in the 80's might beat it lol 

 
Nerdy art trivia: H.R. Giger designed that album cover (Koo Koo), for Debbie Harry.
It's nice to be here where the light shines.
Kinda easy on the ears.
 otaznick wrote:

I fear that the current pop is not as good as this song. {#Sad}

 
Agree
 Sonci wrote:
Average pop song!
 
I fear that the current pop is not as good as this song. {#Sad}
 senorcerveza wrote:
In the running for the creepiest album cover.

 
lol A Debra Harry album in the 80's might beat it lol 
such a hard day here at work. This song is a delightful intermission.
Average pop song!
Blood Makes Noise
In the running for the creepiest album cover.
 nightowl wrote:
Can't believe there haven't been any Art of Noise comparisons here yet.

 
Thankfully there are no comparisons to The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Mumford & Sons, or Tarantino soundtracks either.
A very fine song. Should be more often broadcasted
Great song from a great album.  Great RP discovery.
 Kilroy wrote:
This song is awful....
Gives me PTSD - thank god for PSD..... 

 
I wish you Yoko Ono when you hit the button.

This song is amazing.  
This song is awful....
Gives me PTSD - thank god for PSD..... 
A nod to the alti-plano there.  Nice.
 yofitofu wrote:
The video for the song is directed by the artist and is utterly spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu8FOjJXdI 

 
Thanks. That is a very impressive, well-conceived, well-made and high-concept video. A cut above the usual music vid, for sure. A very fine song as well.
..this sound is really growing on me...its very cool 
Can't believe there haven't been any Art of Noise comparisons here yet.
Still sounds new and fresh !
 
The video for the song is directed by the artist and is utterly spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu8FOjJXdI 
 Giselle62 wrote:
 sensual——am liking it first time i hear it.
 
I agree...  I love you, Giselle62...

everybody in my alien space craft loves this groovy song...  we love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...

French nude smoking opium photo Frenchnudesmokingopium_zps7411cdc8.jpg 
 Lazarus wrote:

marvelous...  love it...
 

 
..so do I,starting giving out #1 now...{#Smile},,!
 sensual——am liking it first time i hear it.
BORING - what happened to sexy Rock+Roll?
Preciosaaaa!!
Soooo beautiful !! 
creepy in a haunting, one of a kind, intriguing, sexy way?

 
junebaby65 wrote:
Creepy voice.

 


Creepy voice.
 jademon wrote:

Nice insight - I think you may be right.  The intro portion is in Russian, "Today I will tell you a story of a person who died in deep waters after losing his love, a story of a person who died twice."
 
Thanks for that - it adds to my appreciation of this song, as does the video.
Nice song. I just love a good baritone. Very rare in rock. Lots of tenors and falsettos these days.
french guy From Lyon
Realy nice!!!
Gone to his Concert on February 21th !!!
sooooo Great !
 
Love this song.  More please.
What is the rest of the album like?
{#Hearteyes}
 Rotterdam wrote:
Lovely smooth voice and cool beat. Like it a lot.

 
Agree. First time hearing this.
 Haa haa, very amusing, btw I quite like his voice.

rdo wrote:
Sometimes my brain needs to let out a fart and just tell it like it is-----this guy has a really annoying voice.  Sorry if this comment stinks.
 


Sometimes my brain needs to let out a fart and just tell it like it is-----this guy has a really annoying voice.  Sorry if this comment stinks.
Lovely smooth voice and cool beat. Like it a lot.
 msymmes wrote:
Fresh new sound for 2013 ! 

 

 
That's where it can stay, stuck in 2013.
Sounds like Bastille, with Anthony and the Johnsons as lead, which isn't a good thing, by any means.
This album cover --> A Rush Of Blood To The Head

equals

My Sweet Lord by George Harrison --> He's So Fine by the Ronettes
His voice is just real, raw, connected, honest. He sounds like he's singing to me (I wish!). And the instruments/composition is so new and fresh. I LOVE IT!
Thanks for the hint: intriguing video!

 
jademon wrote:

Nice insight - I think you may be right.  The intro portion is in Russian, "Today I will tell you a story of a person who died in deep waters after losing his love, a story of a person who died twice."




 


 Kilroy wrote:
Time to take Woodkid to the Woodshed. This song is soooooo annoying.

 
No. :p
Time to take Woodkid to the Woodshed. This song is soooooo annoying.
Fresh new sound for 2013 ! 

 
 jademon wrote:

Nice insight - I think you may be right.  The intro portion is in Russian, "Today I will tell you a story of a person who died in deep waters after losing his love, a story of a person who died twice."




 
Thanks...and even more "wow" for that video.
 jademon wrote:
Video is rather epic... https://vimeo.com/58912692

 
Thank you jademon!    
 jagdaf wrote:
wow...IMO...a complete resurrection of Boz Skaggs. Like it.

 

What he said!
The album cover reminds me that  I was in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago and had forgotten it was Halloween ............until I went out for dinner.
 ShortSharpShock wrote:

Yeah MM,

These are the lyrics (you can find them in the center link at the top of the song comments - Thanks Bill!!)

Where the light shivers offshore
Through the tides of oceans
We are shining in the rising sun

As we are floating in the blue
I am softly watching you
Oh boy your eyes betray what burns inside you

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?

After all I drifted ashore
Through the streams of oceans
Whispers wasted in the sand

As we were dancing in the blue
I was synchronized with you
But now the sound of love is out of tune

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?

Personally, especially after watching the video (someone posted a link below), I take this song to be a "love letter" from Earth, as it were (not to get too philosophical) to Humankind. Watch the video - Woodkid (a.k.a Yoann Lemoine) produces videos as a profession, and the one for this song is pretty amazing. The central figure (not the organist) is intensely exploring Earth and is filmed in many renowned natural locations, almost consumed by his obsession, until he is ultimately consumed by Earth itself. Wish I knew what the organist says at the beginning, or even had a guess at the language.

Anyway, that's my read on this.

Cheers!
 


 
Nice insight - I think you may be right.  The intro portion is in Russian, "Today I will tell you a story of a person who died in deep waters after losing his love, a story of a person who died twice."



 MusiqueMusique wrote:
Nice riff. But what's he saying ? Anyone understand a word he's saying ?

 
Yeah MM,

These are the lyrics (you can find them in the center link at the top of the song comments - Thanks Bill!!)

Where the light shivers offshore
Through the tides of oceans
We are shining in the rising sun

As we are floating in the blue
I am softly watching you
Oh boy your eyes betray what burns inside you

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?

After all I drifted ashore
Through the streams of oceans
Whispers wasted in the sand

As we were dancing in the blue
I was synchronized with you
But now the sound of love is out of tune

Whatever I feel for you
You only seem to care about you
Is there any chance you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
Just to get some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every trace of you
Where are you?

Personally, especially after watching the video (someone posted a link below), I take this song to be a "love letter" from Earth, as it were (not to get too philosophical) to Humankind. Watch the video - Woodkid (a.k.a Yoann Lemoine) produces videos as a profession, and the one for this song is pretty amazing. The central figure (not the organist) is intensely exploring Earth and is filmed in many renowned natural locations, almost consumed by his obsession, until he is ultimately consumed by Earth itself. Wish I knew what the organist says at the beginning, or even had a guess at the language.

Anyway, that's my read on this.

Cheers!
 

This just became the greatest song and all I heard was the first 30 seconds so far.

Amazing -- THIS is what music brings - aliveness!  
 thediceareloaded wrote:
Romeo??
 

Yes, indeed...  I be the holy ghost of big stud Romeo Tuma...  I got burned at the stake here in paradise by an angry mob of unsophisticated tone-deaf peasants...  but I was saved because of my faith in sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...

hope you are having a marvelous time right now, thediceareloaded...


love this marvelous song... 


Michelangelo's David photo MichelangelosDavid.jpg

 

Romeo?? 




Lazarus wrote:

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked...  love this song...  love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...

 


Nice riff. But what's he saying ? Anyone understand a word he's saying ?
Nice one:-).{#Dancingbanana}
Wow. I must not be listening enough to RP, because this is my first hearing of this song. So unexpectedly refreshing and different - and ultimately stunning.

Kind of a Peter Gabriel meets Severt Hoyem with just a dash of Pink Floyd (esp. the orchestration on Atom Heart Mother, not to mention the surreal video). But this is music that is entirely its own, with nothing out there like it that I've ever heard.

Great discovery Bill, great pick (this is the best of several standout tunes on the album), and just a great freakin' song. A solid 9.


I've heard a couple of things from this guy now. I hear Bauhaus.
 Rotterdam wrote:
Have to say that I really like this a lot. Lovely, mellow voice, nice beat - and wonder of wonders, terrific popular music by a French musician - wherever he was educated.... (Take THAT, Carla Bruni.)

 
Wow, I would never have guessed French. There are no accordions!
and speaking of too many plays.........................
I do too much programming, because I could swear he is saying: 'In the ways of love I stack a trace of you'

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked...  love this song...  love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Definitely my favorite song of the month (at least)!
wow...IMO...a complete resurrection of Boz Skaggs. Like it.
Have to say that I really like this a lot. Lovely, mellow voice, nice beat - and wonder of wonders, terrific popular music by a French musician - wherever he was educated.... (Take THAT, Carla Bruni.)
The more I hear of Woodkid...the more I like them!
Not sure what to think. This is very different from so much popular music. Very enjoyable and hope to hear more from him in the future. Thanks RP. 
 linden wrote:
I prick up my ears every time this comes on. How's the rest of the album? I might have to buy it.

 
I bet you'll like it. At least I do.

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves this song...
 

marvelous...  love it...
 
I prick up my ears every time this comes on. How's the rest of the album? I might have to buy it.
 jademon wrote:
Video is rather epic... https://vimeo.com/58912692

 
Wow. That is truly a work of art, a proper high-concept short film, not just a 'pop video'. Thanks very much for the pointer. Best watched in full-screen HD. Makes me appreciate the song many times more than just listening to it, as a proper video should do. Love the whales :)
 jademon wrote:
Video is rather epic... https://vimeo.com/58912692

 
Oh. My. Yes.
Woke up with this song in my head. I think I'll give it a 9. Really dig it.
10 POINTS!
Video is rather epic... https://vimeo.com/58912692
Another instant 7 imho.     ( INSTANT 7 - sounds like a lottery )

Have been listening to "The Golden Age" almost non stop since it was released in March. Haven't got tired of it yet, & specially not tired of Love You! Great to see a French singer songwriter doing so well!
not sure why--but I really like that. In fact, more each time I hear it...
Enjoying this. Alot.
Quickly thought this might be The National...only lite. I stand corrected.
 goozer321 wrote:
I'm totally useless!

 
Boy I'll say.
Decent, a bit over-orchestrated for me.
Very nice opposition between the percussion and violin.  This song could really grow on me. 
The day I was going to upload this to the LRC Channel I discovered it was already on the main channel, ha ha ha, Bill always a step beyond...
lovely
Popped the cherry!