So if you're lonely
You know I'm here waiting for you
I'm just a cross-hair
I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered, I lie
I'm just a cross-hair
I'm just a shot, then we can die

I know I won't be leaving here with you

I say "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say... take me out!

I say "you don't show"
Don't move, time is slow
I say... take me out!

I say "you don't know"
You say you don't go
I say... take me out!

If I move, this could die
Eyes move, this could die
I want you… to take me out

I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I want be sleeping here
I know I won't be leaving here with you

I say "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say... take me out!

If I wait, this can die
If I wane, this can die
I want you… to take me out

If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
Come on… take me out

I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I want be sleeping here
I know I won't be leaving here with you

(Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out")

Des lendemains qui chantent
Malgré la pluie battante
Sans procès d'intention
Être heureux pour de bon
En exauçant nos rêves
De baisers sur les lèvres
De retour à la norme
Dans le fond et la forme
Des lendemains qui dansent
Sans accrocs ni offenses

Des lendemains qui chantent
Sans heures de file d'attente
Le long des golfes longs
Ne plus toucher le fond
Puis faire la paix des braves
Jurer que c'est pas grave
En ignorant le pire
En osant même un sourire
Des lendemains qui dansent
Sans pitié ni clémence

Des lendemains qui chantent
Une cheminée crépitante

Même si la vie ne vaut le coup
Lorsqu'on y pense
Qu'après coup
Même si la vie ne vaut la peine
Que lorsqu'on roule
À perdre haleine

Des lendemains qui chantent
Malgré la pluie battante
Sans un accordéon
Sans spécialités maison
En marchant sur la grève
On observe une trêve
À la tombée du jour
Sans couvre feu ni tambours
Des lendemains qui dansent
Sans accrocs ni offenses

Des lendemains qui chantent
Des histoires palpitantes
Un unique horizon
Et des fruits de saison
Sans céder le passage
Et sans accès de rage
Ni repères, ni remords
Assis à la place du mort
Des lendemains qui dansent
Et qui souffrent en silence

Des lendemains qui chantent
Une cheminée crépitante

(Benjamin Biolay, "Des lendemains qui chantent")

Fill your heart with love today
Don't play the game of time
Things that happened in the past
Only happened in your Mind
Only in your Mind-Forget your Mind
And you'll be free-yeah
The writing's on the wall
Free-yeah. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are Free of thoughts unpure 
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.

Happiness is happening
The dragons have been bled
Gentleness is everywhere
Fear's just in your Head
Only in your Head
Fear is in your Head
Only in your Head
So Forget your Head
And you'll be free
The writing's on the wall
Free-yeah. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free

(David Bowie, "Fill your Heart")

if you ever get close to a human
and human behaviour
be ready be ready to get confused

there's definitely definitely definitely no logic
to human behaviour
but yet so yet so irresistible

and there's no map

they're terribly terribly terribly moody
a human behaviour
then all of a sudden turn happy
but, oh, to get involved in the exchange
of human emotions
is ever so ever so satisfying

there's no map
and a compass
wouldn't help at all

human behaviour

(Björk, "Human Behaviour")

All those wasted hours we used to know
Spent the summer staring out the window
The wind it takes you where it wants to go

First they built the road, then they built the town
That's why we're still driving round and round
And all we see
Are kids in buses longing to be free

Wasted hours, before we knew
Where to go, and what to do
Wasted hours, that you made new
And turned into
A life that we can live

Some cities make you lose your head
Endless suburbs stretched out thin and dead
And what was that line you said
Wishing you were anywhere but here
You watch the life you're living disappear
And now I see
We're still kids in buses longing to be free

Wasted hours, before we knew
Where to go, and what to do
Wasted hours, that you made new
And turned into
A life that we can live

(The Arcade Fire, "Wasted Hours")

Hey Jude don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better

And any time you feel the pain, Hey Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder

Hey Jude don't let me down
You have found her now go and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

So let it out and let it in
Hey Jude begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you
Hey Jude you'll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder

Hey Jude don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better better better

(The Beatles, "Hey Jude")

I know I stand in line until you think
You have the time to spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance
I know that there's a chance you won't be leaving with me
And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two......
And then I go and spoil it all by saying
Something stupid like I love you

I can see it in your eyes that you despise
The same old lines you heard the night before......
And though it's just a line to you for me it's true......
And never seemed so right before
I practice everyday to find some clever lines
To say to make the meaning come true......
But then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late
And I'm alone with you
The time is right your perfume fills my head......
The stars get red and on the nights so blue......
And then I go and spoil it all by saying
Something stupid like I love you

(Nancy Sinatra, "Somethin' Stupid")

(...)

Mais soudain voilà je m'éveille dans mon lit
Donc j'avais rêvé, oui, car le ciel est gris
Il faut se lever, se laver, se vêtir
Et ne plus chanter si l'on n'a plus rien à dire
Mais je crois pourtant que ce rêve a du bon
Car il m'a permis de faire une chanson
Chanson de printemps, chansonnette d'amour
Chanson de vingt ans chanson de toujours.

(...)

(Charles Trenet, "Y'a d'la joie", extrait)

Valérie s'ennuyait
Dans les bras de Nicolas
Mais Nicolas, celui-là
Ne le savait pas
Isabelle a attendu, attendu
Mais Patrick n'est jamais reparu

Les histoires d'A
Les histoires d'amour
Les histoires d'amour finissent mal
Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en général

Michel aimait Gérard
Et Gérard le lui rendait si bien
Qu'à la fin ça ne rendait rien
Evelyne toute sa vie attendit
Que le monsieur en gris lui sourit

Gilbert partit en voyage
Juste au moment de son mariage
Hector est mort en faisant une fugue
Il allait retrouver Gertrude
Simone et Tom s'engueulaient
Dès que vingt et une heures sonnaient

Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en général
Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en général

(Les Rita Mitsouko, "Les histoires d'a")

On the floor of Tokyo
Or down in London town to go, go
With the record selection
With the mirror reflection
I'm dancing with myself

When there's no-one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
Well I wait so long
For my love vibration
And I'm dancing with myself

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes
Seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
And I'll be dancing with myself

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes
Seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
And I'll be dancing with myself
I'll be dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself

(Nouvelle Vague, "Dancing With Myself")

Summer was gone and the heat died down
And Autumn reached for her golden crown
I looked behind as I heard a sigh
But this was the time of no reply.

The sun went down and the crowd went home
I was left by the roadside all alone
I turned to speak as they went by
But this was the time of no reply.

The time of no reply is calling me to stay
There is no hello and no goodbye
To leave there is no way.

The trees on the hill had nothing to say
They would keep their dreams till another day
So they stood and thought and wondered why
For this was the time of no reply.

Time goes by from year to year
And no one asks why I am standing here
But I have my answer as I look to the sky
This is the time of no reply.

The time of no reply is calling me to stay
There's no hello and no goodbye
To leave there is no way.

Connaissez vous la marche à suivre ?
Les années qu'ils vous restent à vivre ?
Avez vous relu le grand livre ?
Vous attend t-on sur l'autre rive ?

Ca ressemble à l'Arizona
Aucun de nous n'en reviendra, vivant

Avez vous suivi la consigne ?
D'attendre qu'on vous fasses signe ?
En toute occasion rester digne
De ne jamais franchir la ligne

Ca ressemble à l'Arizona
Chacun de nous y passera du bon temps

N'oubliez pas le manuel
Payez la chambre du motel
Appretez vous à voir le ciel
Ne soyez ni faible ni cruel

Ca ressemble à l'Arizona
Aucun de nous n'en reviendra, vivant

Avez vous toujours peur du noir ?
Qui voyez vous dans le miroir ?
Avez vous eu votre heure de gloire ?
Que gardera de vous l'histoire

Ca ressemble à l'Arizona
Et chacun de nous y fera, son temps

(Benjamin Biolay, "L'Arizona")

Les dessous chics
C'est ne rien dévoiler du tout
se dire que lorsqu'on est à bout
c'est tabou

les dessous chics
c'est une jarretelle qui claque
dans la tête comme une paire de claques

les dessous chics
ce sont des contrats résiliés
qui comme des bas résillés
ont filé

les dessous chics
c'est la pudeur des sentiments
maquillés outrageusement
rouge sang

les dessous chics
c'est se garder au fond de soi
fragile comme un bas de soie

les dessous chics
c'est des dentelles et des rubans
d'amertume sur un paravent
désolant

les dessous chics
ce serait comme un talon aiguille
qui transpercerait le cœur des filles...

(Serge Gainsbourg, "Les dessous chics")

J'avoue
j'en ai
Bavé
pas vous
mon amour
avant
d'avoir
eu vent
de vous
mon amour-
ne vous déplaise
en dansant la Javanaise
nous nous aimions
le temps d'une chanson-
a votre
avis
qu'avons
nous vu
de l'amour
de vous
a moi
vous m'a-
vez eu
mon amour- hélas
avril
en vain
me voue
a l'amour
j'avais
envie
de voir
en vous
cet amour- la vie
ne vaut
d'être
vécue
sans amour
mais c'est
vous qui
l'avez
voulu
mon amour

(Serge Gainsbourg, "La Javanaise")

My name is trouble my first name’s a mess
No need to greet me I’m here to confess
But if you let me hold you I won’t hold my breath
And if you let me love you I will love to death

My chances endless I tend to obsess
No game is out to my need to possess
But if you let me hold you I won’t hold my breath
And if you let me love you I will love you to death

I'm petrified of emptiness a lot of signs of loneliness
Our love has tend to break me in two
If you’re to come back to me, pieces … melody
There couldn’t be a better way through

My name is trouble my first name’s a mess
Born to deceive you brought up to redress
And if you let me hold you I won’t hold my breath
But if you make me need you I will need you less

I'm petrified of emptiness a lot of signs of loneliness
Our love has tend to break me in two
If you’re to come back to me, pieces...melody
There couldn’t be a better way through

My name is trouble my first name’s a mess
No need to greet me I’m here to confess
And If you let me hold you I won’t hold my breath
And if you let me love I will love to death

If you let me hold you I won’t hold my breath
And if you let me love you I will love you to death

(Keren Ann, "My Name Is Trouble")

I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don't know 
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset 
The light on your door to show that you're home
When you think the night has seen your mind 
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind 
Please put down your hands
'Cause I see you
I find it hard to believe you don't know
The beauty that you are
But if you don't let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid
When you think the night has seen your mind 
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind 
Please put down your hands
'Cause I see you
I'll be your mirror

(The Velvet Underground, "I'll Be Your Mirror")

I know I stand in line until you think 
You have the time to spend an evening with me 
And if we go someplace to dance 
I know that there's a chance you won't be leaving with me 
And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place 
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all by saying 
Something stupid like I love you 

I can see it in your eyes that you despise 
The same old lines you heard the night before
And though it's just a line to you for me it's true
And never seemed so right before 

I practice everyday to find some clever lines 
To say to make the meaning come true
But then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late 
And I'm alone with you 
The time is right your perfume fills my head
The stars get red and on the nights so blue
And then I go and spoil it all by saying 
Something stupid like I love you 

(Nancy Sinatra, "Something Stupid")

If you ever get close to a human
and human behaviour
be ready to get confused

there's definitely no logic 
to human behaviour
but yet so irresistible

there is no map 
to human behaviour

they're terribly moody 
then all of a sudden turn happy
but, oh, to get involved in the exchange
of human emotions is ever so satisfying

there's no map and
a compass
wouldn't help at all

human behaviour 

(Björk, "Début", "Human Behaviour")

They heard me singing and they told me to stop,
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock,
These days, my life, I feel it has no purpose,
But late at night the feelings swim to the surface.
Cause on the surface the city lights shine,
They're calling at me, "come and find your kind."

Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,
That we can never get away from the sprawl,
Living in the sprawl,
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,
And there's no end in sight,
I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.

We rode our bikes to the nearest park,
Sat under the swings, we kissed in the dark,
We shield our eyes from the police lights,
We run away, but we don't know why,
And like a mirror these city lights shine,
They're screaming at us, "we don't need your kind."

Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,
That we can never get away from the sprawl,
Living in the sprawl,
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,
And there's no end in sight,
I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.

They heard me singing and they told me to stop,
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock.

Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,
Can we ever get away from the sprawl?
Living in the sprawl,
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,
And there's no end in sight,
I need the darkness someone please cut the lights. 

(Arcade Fire, "Sprawl II, Mountains Beyond Mountains")

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine,
I walk the line

I find it very, very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes, I'll admit I'm a fool for you
Because you're mine,
I walk the line

As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine,
I walk the line

You've got a way to keep me on your side
You give me cause for love that I can't hide
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide
Because you're mine,
I walk the line

(Johnny Cash, "I Walk The Line")