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Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes Lyrics

Quand on est mort, c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Laissez-moi faisander un mois
Et de là jetez-moi au chat
Qu'il refuse ma rate et mon foie
Mais choisissez l'heure pour qu'il me mange le coeur

Que je reste encore avec vous
Sur vos épaules et vos genoux
Que je sois puisqu'il faut qu'on existe
Le chat du café des artistes

Et si le pain vient à manquer
Je serai là et n'hésitez pas
Brisez-moi les pattes et le cou
Et puis mangez-moi à même le chat

Ce ne sera pas la première fois
Qu'on aura mangé un artiste

Quand on est mort, c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand il a coupé la ficelle
On l'a mis dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Comme ils ont oublié le chat
Comme ils oublieront ma tête et mes chansons

Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois
Que l'on oubliera un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Comme ils ont oublié le chat
Comme ils oublieront ma tête et mes chansons

Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois
Que l'on oubliera un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Là là là là là là là là
Là là là là là là là là
Là là là là là là là là
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fraexx On Dec 12, 2009
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Cover art for Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes lyrics by Charlotte Gainsbourg

This song is gold. Any of you francophones out there have a translation?

Not my translation (though I made a few minor edits of my own), but found here: http://whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=981

When one is dead, then one is dead When one no longer laughs, they no longer live When I will have cut the cord Put me in a garbage can

Let me hang a month And from there throw me to the cat Who will refuse my spleen and my liver But choose the hour for him to eat my heart

And I still stay with you On your shoulders and your knees Which I will be because it...

Cover art for Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes lyrics by Charlotte Gainsbourg

also love that song. I heard it's (partly) about eating artists??? anyway it's a rather old chanson that Charlotte interprets in a new way. I need to ask my dad to translate it. all I understand is "the cat of the artists' cafe"

Cover art for Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes lyrics by Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

Let me hang for a month and then throw me to the cat Let him decline my spleen and my liver But pick the hour so he eats my heart and so I'll stay with you on your shoulders and your knees Let me be, because we have to exist The cat from the Artists' Café

And if bread comes to be lacking I won't be there and don't hesitate Break my paws and neck And eat me directly from the cat

It won't be the first time that we eat an artist

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

And then they forgot me there La la la la la Like they forgot the cat Like they will forget my head and my songs

It won't be the first time that we forget an artist

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

And then they forgot me there La la la la la La la la la la

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Cover art for Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes lyrics by Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

Let me hang for a month and then throw me to the cat Let him decline my spleen and my liver But pick the hour so he eats my heart and so I'll stay with you on your shoulders and your knees Let me be, because we have to exist The cat from the Artists' Café

And if bread comes to be lacking I won't be there and don't hesitate Break my paws and neck And eat me directly from the cat

It won't be the first time that we eat an artist

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

And then they forgot me there La la la la la As they forgot the cat They will forget my head and my songs

It won't be the first time that we forget an artist

When you're dead, you're dead When you don't laugh anymore, you don't live anymore When I'll have cut the cord Put me in a trashcan

And then they forgot me there La la la la la La la la la la

 
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