Tournoyer (Twirling )
by @ambroise
Liner Notes
Is it just me ? When I go to bed tired I feel like I’m slowly falling twirling like a leaf on the wind.
#chanson #french #withtranslation #12barsnightblue #ionian #modal-challenge
Lyrics
J’ai peut-être un peu trop tiré sur les paupières
Un peu trop joué la montre trop resté dans l’ornière
Mis les bars un peu haut trop pris de p’tit’ dernière
Mais j’ai trouvé la paix dans le coeur de la nuit
C’est l’heure où je me rend, plus celle où je m’enfui
Je m’en retourne à point en un mot je suis cuit
Les autres autour de moi sont déjà endormis
Comme il me tend les draps, je m’approche du lit
Et m'effondre dessus comme on plonge en la nuit
Chorus:
Tomber sans gravité
Tournoyer tournoyer
Je suis la plume de l’oreiller
C’est le ventre en avant pour en fair’ tout un plat
Que je fond sur ma couche et mange le mat’lat
J’embrass’ l’horizontale et lance la java
Car soudain sous le lit se révèle un espace
Qui, souple, se décèle. Toute sa nuit m’enlasse
Et la nuit me traverse et la nuit me dépasse
Chorus
Un peuple de luciole de lanterne-poisson
Qui vivent sous les eaux d’un océan sans fond
Dessinent l’univers de leurs constellations
Je m’échappe en chandelle en vrille et au hasard
Me faufilant agil’ sous les grill’s des radars
Je suis comme un flocon étourdi de blizzard
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I may have asked too much from my eyelids
A little too hard on the clock A little too long in the rut
I set the bars a little too high , had a little too many last one
But I've found peace in the heart of the night
It's my time to surrender, no longer my time to run
I'm going back. All being said: I'm done
The others around me are already asleep
As he opens me the sheets, I approach the bed
And collapse on it as one plunges into the night
chorus:
Falling without gravity
Twirling spinning
I'm the feather of the pillow
The belly first to make a fuss
I melt on my bed and eat (hit) the mattress
I embrace the horizontal and launch the java
For suddenly under the bed a space is revealed
Which, supple, unravels itself. All its night embraces me
And the night crosses me and the night overtakes me
chorus
A people of lantern-fish fireflies
Who live under the waters of a bottomless ocean
Draw the universe with their constellations
I'm escaping vertically (litt. forming a candel), spinning and at random
Sneaking agilely under the radar grids
I'm like a blizzard-stunned flake
Comments
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And the calm and dreamy music fits the mood perfectly! The spares intrumentation and the more whispered vocals!
Beautiful!
„ A people of lantern-fish fireflies
Who live under the waters of a bottomless ocean
Draw the universe with their constellations“ Wow!
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Aaaaah! "Like a leaf on the wind" !! J'avais pas vu! You want to kill me! 😭
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I learned French for many years but seemed to forgot many words and grammar. Thanks for adding the English translation so I could look up some words....
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The Ionian mode makes this feel not as 12-bar blues as it is, somehow. Nice work with that! The harmonica solo was a nice touch as well.