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- Now, I give the microphone to Mr. Jean-Jacques Birgé. Over to you, Jean-Jacques Birgé! So Mr. Jean-Jacques Birgé, are you ready?
- Wait, wait... This is Jean-Jacques Birgé speaking!
Under the gambling circle
The tailor is happy
To sell new costumes
To bluff lovers
In the old elevator
They put on clean blazers
Having lost everything
They are shedding their skin
Place de la Bourse
The 50s
Go back to the source
Of revolts that haunt me
From our balcony
A big balloon flies away
Red blood of the beasts
Bursting into funfairs
In the dark furnished apartment
Words of freedom
Evoke independence
Of people marching on
Place de la Bourse
The 50s
Go back to the source
Of revolts that haunt me
- This is the end!
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- Yes hello, can you hear me? I'm calling from the demo…
Above all don’t be afraid
In the Avenue des Gobelins
I'm calling from a hairdressers
To say that everything is fine.
Barricades in Paris
Peace and Love in Frisco
Elsewhere is real life
Music and my backpack
The seeds that have sprouted
Grow on my balcony
Hash and LSD
We are experienced
No taboos nor time out
Night is like day
Dream in Technicolor
Think only of love
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Today music is more often played than it is written on paper. We write it differently. We write it collectively. We write it with computer systems...
519 dead people and dozens of missing persons, the damage is huge...
No, but tell me, because you are waving at me, I do not understand what's going on...
Music produces meaning. The music of Un Drame Musical Instantané is already blind cinema.
So yes, is it your reality?
Neither on the feet nor on the hands...
A sort of counterpoint, a fiction around which all the forces of the nation would happily regroup, a retrospective report shot on the scene of the crime or a daily series that simply shows the joy of living, but here I anticipate...
Made of phases of slow evolution and then accelerations that we call crises...
I saw that there were however coded signals!
But listen, I think that’s the best thing...
We speak English
French accents
Playing the States
Strong critics
Trying to be us
Fighting U.S.
We make love and we love
No taboo
Fighting the coup
Who’s above?
Trying to be us
Fighting U.S.
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O parents, dear elders,
What do you want from us
That we cannot give
And that drives us crazy?
Children, be wise,
When you drive
Leave us a message
To dispel our doubts!
O doddering parents,
Delivering our neuroses,
Do not be surprised
If we send you to hell
Children, by the way,
Do not make us seem older
We still have all the ages
That we have already had.
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As I am a bit funny
Stunned by the dance
I can't feel my feet anymore
I’m even out of my depth
And to the package of
Advancing life, I oppose
The liberated loves
Of maturity
As I am a bit fancy
There is meaning in words
No need for wine glasses
Just six-stanza verses
To toast together
At this rebirth
Rejecting the worms
Of our six feet under
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How many days
Shal I resist
My sweet love
Dear Snow White
How many nights
Waiting for you
Making no noise
Not hearing you
How much time
Does a kiss take
To wake you up
Right now
How much does it hurt
If times passes
Without our cries
To leave a trace
Come closer
Even sleeping
Deliver us
If we’re off beat
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Tombeau de Birgé
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Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ Paris, France
Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané), sound designer & multimedia artist, writer & blogger. (Mediapart)... Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players in France in 1973, the initiator of the return of silent movies with music in 1976. ... more
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