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Charleville​-​M​é​zi​è​res

from Mal Habill​é​e (The French EP) by Dawn Landes

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lyrics

J’ai roulé doucement vers toi
Dans mon coupé bleu Citroën
En roulant au bout de mes doigts
Des cigarettes américaines

Je suis revenu dans le film
Cette fable des frères Dardenne
En forme de journal intime
Un love-story dans les Ardennes

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus heureux du monde
Et d’Hotel en hotel ils montent faire l’amour
Il et elle

Nous avons dîné de guimauve
Dans la folle fête foraine
Au milieu des dragons des fauves
Des barbapapas des baleines

La nuit jetait ses filets mauves
Et j’avais ta main dans la mienne
Sous les nuages qui se sauvent
Comme des Rimbaud et Verlaine

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus libres du monde
Et les yeux dans les yeux, ils disent “ ô mon amour …
si tu veux “

J’ai roulé doucement vers toi
Dans mon coupé bleu Citroën
En regardant autour de moi
Tomber la nuit américaine

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus heureux du monde

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Charleville

I rolled slowly towards you
In my blue Citroen coupé
Rolling American cigarettes
Between my fingers

I went back into the film
A fable by the Dardenne brothers
In the form of a diary
A love story set in the Ardennes

In the saddest city in the world
Two lovers, the happiest in the world
Go from hotel room to hotel room, making love
Him and her

We ate marshmallows
In the street fair
In the midst of dragons and beasts
Cotton candy and whales

The night cast its purple net
I had your hand in mine
Under the clouds escaping
Like Rimbaud and Verlaine

In the saddest city in the world
Two lovers, the most free in the world
Eye to eye, they say “Oh my love…
“If you want”

I rolled slowly towards you
In my blue Citroen coupé
Watching the American night fall
All around me

In the saddest city in the world
Two of the world’s happiest lovers

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from Mal Habill​é​e (The French EP), released June 5, 2012

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Dawn Landes Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dawn Landes is a singer-songwriter with roots in Kentucky and NYC, now living in North Carolina. She has released multiple albums and her songs have been featured in commercials, popular films, and TV shows. Landes tours internationally and has performed with The Boston Pops, NYC Ballet, and at TED. ... more

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