One of the most iconic Serge Gainsbourg songs, about one of the most iconic French actresses of all time. Brigitte Bardot, in the late 50’s and in the 60’s, was a real icon and sex symbol in France. She and Gainsbourg had a short affair together in 1967. It’s at the end of this relationship that Gainsbourg wrote this song about her and their story. Brigitte Bardot collaborated in two songs on this album : this one and “Bonnie and Clyde”. The music of the chorus is inspired by a classical piece, “Sympony no. 9” (from the New World) by Anton Dvořák.
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- Une nuit que j’étais
- À me morfondre
- Dans quelque club anglais
- Du coeur de Londres
- Parcourant l’Amour monstre
- De Pauwels
- Me vint une vision
- Dans l’eau de Seltz
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- Tandis que les médailles
- D’impérator
- Font briller à sa taille
- Le bronze et l’or
- La platine lui grave
- D’un cercle froid
- La marque des esclaves
- À chaque doigt
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- Jusques en haut des cuisses
- Elle est bottée
- Et c’est comme un calice
- À sa beauté
- Elle ne porte rien
- D’autre qu’un peu
- D’essence de Guerlain
- Dans les cheveux
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- À chaque mouvement
- On entendait
- Les clochettes d’argent
- De ses poignets
- Agitant ses grelots
- Elle avança
- Et prononça ce mot :
- Almeria !
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- One night that I was
- Moping
- In some English pub
- At the heart of London
- Reading through L’amour monstre
- By Pauwels
- I had a vision
- In the soda water
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- As the medals
- Of emperor
- Make shine on her waist
- Bronze and gold
- Platinium engraves on her
- With a cold circle
- The mark of slaves
- On each finger
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- To the top of the thighs
- She’s booted
- And it’s like a calyx
- To her beauty
- She’s wearing nothing
- Else than a bit
- Of spirit of Guerlain
- In her hair
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- At each movement
- You could hear
- The silver bells
- Of her wrists
- Shaking her sligh bells
- She proceeded
- And pronouced this word :
- Almeria !
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Notes :
- L’Amour monstre is a novel by Louis Pauwels (1954). Brigitte Bardot advised this book to Gainsbourg, because it’s a cruel book and she thought he was gonna like it.
- Almeria is the city where their love story ended.
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