The long honeymoon - Elvis Costello

janvier 5, 2026 Temps de lecture: 3 minutes

The long honeymoon

Crédits :
Auteur: Elvis Costello
Compositeur:Elvis Costello
Philippe Jasmin (Totem prod) Arrangements, tous instruments et choeurs.
Phil: Voix

All the bedroom lights go out
As the neighbourhood gets quiet
Everything in heaven and earth is almost right
But there's a wife who's wondering where her husband could be tonight
And when the phone rang only once she took a dreadful fright

Little things just seem to undermine her confidence in him
He was late this time last week
Who can she turn to when the chance of coincidence is slim
'Cause the baby isn't old enought to speak

There's been a long honeymoon
She thought too late and spoke too soon
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness
There's been a long honeymoon
If he's out on a date then her life's in ruins
She never thought her love could ever be as strong as this

All the movies and the papers
Feature the murders of lonely women
If he isn't in by ten she'll call up her best friend
Why doesn't he come home
Why does her friend's phone keep on ringing
Maybe she should just pretend

There's been a long honeymoon
She thought too late and spoke too soon
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness
There's been a long honeymoon
If he's out on a date then her life's in ruins
She never thought her love could ever be as strong as this

 

Extrait de l'album Imperial Bedroom (1982) par Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Knee deep in love - Klaatu

novembre 29, 2008 Temps de lecture: 4 minutes

Knee deep in love

Crédits :
Auteur-compositeur: John Woloschuk / Dino Tome (Klaatu)
Arrangements, tous instruments et voix: Phil.

 

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Hello sweet Joan, so glad you're home
Just called to say goodbye
I'm leaving town, I'm bent and bound
Don't try to change my mind
You ask me why I'm leaving
But we both know the reason

You're knee deep in love
Guess it's over and done for us
You and me
You're knee deep in love
But I'm not the one
I'm not the one, I know

Isn't it strange how people change
And slowly drift apart
Like you and me, it had to be
I've known it from the start
You're trying not to show it
But in my heart I know it

You're knee deep in love
Guess it's over and done for us
You and me
You're knee deep in love
Oh, but I'm not the one
I'm not the one, I know

'Cause it's in the way you hold me
And in the lies you've told me
Everything I do seems to
Annoy you and displease you
You never share your laughter
And in the morning after
You try to sweep me under your rug
You don't have to say it

You're knee deep in love
Guess it's over and done for us
You and me
You're knee deep in love
But I'm not the one
I'm not the one, I know
I know

 

 
Extrait de l'album Endangered species (1980) par Klaatu

Palace of Versailles - Al Stewart

septembre 29, 2008 Temps de lecture: 3 minutes

Palace of Versailles

Crédits :
Auteur :Al Stewart
compositeur: Al Stewart
Luc: Guitares, mixage
Phil: claviers et voix.

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The wands of smoke are rising from the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Parisr uns a sense of the unreal
The Kings have all departed there servants are nowhere
We burned out all their mansions in the name of Robespierre

And still we wait to see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils the lamps are burning low
Oh you sit and talk all through the night but there's just no place to go
And Bonaparte is coming with his army from the south
Marat your days are numbered and we live hand to mouth

While we wait to see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

The ghost of revolution still prowls the Paris streets
Down all the restless centuries it wonders incomplete

It speaks inside the cheap red wine of cafe summer nights
Its red and amber voices call the cars at traffic lights

Why do you wait to see the day begin
Your time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

 

 
  Palace of Versailles extrait de Times passages (1978) - Al Stewart

Des larmes et des larmes - Laurent Voulzy

août 31, 2008 Temps de lecture: 3 minutes

Des larmes et des larmes

Crédits :
Auteur :Alain Souchon
compositeur: Laurent Voulzy
Gary; Guitare électrique
Phil: Réalisation et voix.
Merci aux Gens d'Avril et tous spécialement à Merlin / Arnaud Kerzerho pour la transcription

 

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Des larmes et des larmes
J'suis marron glacé
Des larmes et des larmes, marron cassé
Elle m'a laissé tomber dans l'noir
Tourner, tourner, tourner
Qu'est-ce que je me suis cogné, cogné, cogné
Je voudrais dormir plus penser à elle
Trouver les choses belles belles ooo ooo

Et j'envoie dans l'air
un air que j'tape sur une guitare plate
Des oiseaux vers elle
sans ailes

Des larmes et des larmes j'suis marron glacé
Des larmes et des larmes, marron cassé
Dans un ampli-tuner noir J'essaie,
viens me voir, viens me voir, viens me voir
Mais ça fait qu' la pluie pleuvoir, pleuvoir, pleuvoir
J'ai plus qu'à mourir, j'veux plus rien faire
J'aime plus mes affaires woo ooo ooo

Et j'envoie dans l'air
un air qui neige sur une guitare beige
Des petits glaçons bleus qui tombent de mes yeux

Des larmes et des larmes
des larmes et des larmes

Les gens qui passent n'voient pas c'qui s'passe
Je voudrais mourir, j' veux plus rien faire
J'aime plus mes affaires non non
  ooo ooo

Et j'envoie en l'air un air qui pleut sur une guitare bleue
Des oiseaux vers elle
sans ailes

 

 
  face B du 45tours Surfing Jack (1980) par Laurent Voulzy

I'll follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie

juillet 3, 2008 Temps de lecture: 4 minutes

I'll follow you into the dark

Crédits :
Auteur compositeur: Ben Gibbard (Death cab for cutie)
Stephane du groupe Kundalini Primale Tous instruments.
Phil: Voix

 

 

 

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Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be a close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles brusied by a lady in black
And I held my toungue as she told me
'Son fear is the heart of love'
So I never went back

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes...
Are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

 

 
Extrait de l'album Plans(2005) par Death cab for cutie

 

Soldier of fortune - Deep Purple

juin 7, 2008 Temps de lecture: 3 minutes

Soldier of fortune

Crédits :
Auteur compositeur: David Coverdale - Ritchie Blackmore
Slobo du groupe Atom Tous instruments et chœurs.
Phil: Voix

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I have often told you stories about the way
I lived the life of a drifter waiting for the day
When Id take your hand and sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me and I would surely stay

But I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance, like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be a soldier of fortune

Many times Ive been a traveller I looked for something new
In days of old when nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing it shows that youre not here

Now I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance, like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be a soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be A soldier of fortune

 
Extrait de l'album Stormbringer (1974) par Deep Purple
 

Rock and roll fantasy - The Kinks

mai 10, 2008 Temps de lecture: 4 minutes

Rock and Roll fantasy

Crédits :
Auteur: Ray Davies (The Kinks)
Compositeur: Ray Davies (The Kinks)
Eric de Malin Plaisir Tous instruments et chœurs.
Jacques Parmantier: Guitares
Phil: Voix

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Hello you, hello me, hello people we used to be
Isn’t it strange, we never changed
We’ve been through it all yet we’re still the same
And I know it’s a miracle, we still go, and for all we know
We might still have a way to go

Hello me, hello you, you say you want out
Want to start anew, throw in your hand
Break up the band, start a new life, be a new man
But for all we know, we might still have a way to go
Before you go, there’s something you ought to know

There’s a guy in my block, he lives for rock
He plays records day and night
And when he feels down, he puts some rock ’n’ roll on
And it makes him feel alright
And when he feels the world is closing in
He turns his stereo way up high

He just spends his life, living in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy
He just spends his life, living on the edge of reality
He just spends his life, in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy
He just spends his life, living in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy
He just spends his life, living on the edge of reality
He just spends his life, in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy
He just spends his life, livingt in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy

Look at me, look at you
You say you’ve got nothing left to prove
The king is dead, rock is done
You might be through but I’ve just begun
I don’t know, I feel free and I won’t let go
Before you go, there’s something you ought to know

Dan is a fan and he lives for our music
It’s the only thing that gets him by
He’s watched us grow and he’s seen all our shows
He’s seen us low and he’s seen us high
Oh, but you and me keep thinking
That the world’s just passing us by

Dont’ want to spend my life, living in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy
Don’t want to spend my life living on the edge of reality
Don’t want to waste my life, hiding away anymore
Don’t want to spend my life, living in a rock ’n’ roll fantasy...

Extrait de l'album MISFITS(1978) par The Kinks