une belle chanson de jean-claude vannier pour faire plaisir à daniel licht

cet homme là, dandy d'adoption et roucouleur de vocation, vaut bien mieux que ses rares digressions instrumentales (les seules qu'on trouve encore sur disque, tout ce qu'il a chanté est passé au rebut), bien mieux que ses somptueuses orchestrations pour gainsbourg (melody nelson) et sans doute bien mieux que le vieux gainsbourg lui-même. La preuve? Cherchez les vinyles ....

jean claude vannier/une histoire vécue (1990)

love sick (best live version, baltimore, 1999)

i'm walking through streets that are dead
walking, walking with you in my head
my feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
and the clouds are weeping

did i hear someone tell a lie?
did i hear someone's distant cry?
i spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile
while i was sleeping

i'm sick of love but i'm in the thick of it
this kind of love i'm so sick of it

i see, i see lovers in the meadow
i see, i see silhouettes in the window
i watch them 'til they're gone and they leave me hanging on
to a shadow

i'm sick of love; i hear the clock tick
this kind of love; i'm love sick

sometimes the silence can be like the thunder
sometimes i wanna take to the road and plunder
could you ever be true?
i think of you
and I wonder

i'm sick of love; i wish I'd never met you
i'm sick of love; i'm trying to forget you

just don't know what to do
i'd give anything to
be with you