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Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime... moi non plus (Lyrics) [HD] |
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg sing 'Je t'aime... moi non plus' from their 1969 fontana album 'Je t'aime'. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below with some notes on the song.
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Je t'aime... moi non plus
Singers - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Oh oui je t'aime
Moi non plus
Oh mon amour
Comme la vague irresolue
Je vais, je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Et je me retiens
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Oh oui je t'aime
Moi non plus
Oh mon amour
Tu es la vague, moi l'île nue
Tu vas, tu vas et tu viens
Entre mes reins
Tu vas et tu viens
Entre mes reins
Et je te rejoins
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Oh oui je t'aime
Moi non plus
Oh, mon amour
Comme la vague irresolue
Je vais, je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Et je me retiens
Tu vas, tu vas et tu viens
Entre mes reins
Tu vas et tu viens
Entre mes reins
Et je te rejoins
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Oh, oui je t'aime
Moi non plus
Oh mon amour
L'amour physique est sans issue
Je vais, je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Je vais et je viens
Je me retiens
Non! Maintenant viens!
Writer: Serge Gainsbourg
© Painted Desert Music Corp., Universal Music Group
[Lyrics from lyricmode.com]
Wikipedia states:
"Je t'aime… moi non plus" (French for "I love you… neither do I") is a 1967 song written by Serge Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot. In 1969, Gainsbourg recorded the most well known version with Jane Birkin. The duet reached number one in the UK, and number two in Ireland, but was banned in several countries due to its overly sexual content. In 1976, Gainsbourg directed Birkin in an erotic film of the same name.
The song was written and recorded in late 1967 for Gainsbourg's girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot. She asked him to write the most beautiful love song he could imagine and that night he wrote "Je t'aime" and "Bonnie and Clyde". They recorded an arrangement of "Je t'aime" by Michel Colombier at a Paris studio in a two-hour session in a small glass booth; the engineer William Flageollet said there was "heavy petting". However, news of the recording reached the press and Bardot's husband, German businessman Gunter Sachs, was angry and called for the single to be withdrawn. Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release it. He complied but observed "The music is very pure. For the first time in my life, I write a love song and it's taken badly."
In 1968, Gainsbourg and English actress Jane Birkin began a relationship when they met on the set of the film Slogan. After filming, he asked her to record the song with him. Birkin had heard the Bardot version and thought it "so hot". She said: "I only sang it because I didn't want anybody else to sing it", jealous at the thought of his sharing a recording studio with someone else. Gainsbourg asked her to sing an octave higher than Bardot, "so you'll sound like a little boy". It was recorded in an arrangement by Arthur Greenslade in a studio at Marble Arch.
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