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Devant Les Lavabos
Renaud Lyrics

Elles s'en vont toujours par deux
Avant le dîner, discrètes
Pour se recoiffer un peu
Pour s'échanger en cachette
Quelques potins, quelques aveux
Quelle est la raison secrète
De cet exil mystérieux
Qui les retient au petit coin?

Nos gonzesses

Devant les lavabos
Se repoudrent le bout du nez
Se font les lèvres cerise
Nos gonzesses
Sous les néons pas beaux
En dégrafant négligemment
Un bouton de leur chemise

Elles se retournent dans le miroir
Par-dessus leurs épaules
Pas très rassurées pour voir
Si par malheur ou par hasard
Leur joli cul n'aurait pas disparu
Puis innocentes mais la tête haute
Elles nous reviennent enfin
Parfumées comme pour un autre

Nos gonzesses
Devant les lavabos
Est-c'qu'elles parlent de moi, de nous?
Est-c'qu'elles disent des gros mots?
Nos gonzesses
Sous les néons pas beaux
Font semblant de se laver les mains
Qu'elles ont blanches comme du bon pain

Un beau jour elles disparaissent
Sans laisser d'adresse
A peine un petit mot
Sur le miroir du lavabo
De leur rouge à lèvres souvent
Elles écrivent en lettres de sang
Simplement "Adieu salaud"
C'est vrai qu'il n'y a pas d'autres mots

Lyrics © MINO MUSIC
Written by: ALAIN LABACCI, RENAUD PIERRE MANUEL SECHAN

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Extremely versatile and respected French singer-songwriter. His music is a crossover of folk, rock, blues and punk. Active since the 70s, Renaud has written some very controversial songs during his musical career, the most famous one (to British readers at least) praising all women as being better than men except Margaret Thatcher, saying that if he comes back as a dog in his next life, he will use her as a lampost... He is famously recovering from alcoholism with some degree of success. Read Full BioExtremely versatile and respected French singer-songwriter. His music is a crossover of folk, rock, blues and punk. Active since the 70s, Renaud has written some very controversial songs during his musical career, the most famous one (to British readers at least) praising all women as being better than men except Margaret Thatcher, saying that if he comes back as a dog in his next life, he will use her as a lampost... He is famously recovering from alcoholism with some degree of success.

The most iconic song to many French people, and possibly the song that put him on the map, was the huge 70's French hit "Laisse Béton" (the story - told with a great deal of humour - of someone who enters a bar and gets mugged for everything he owns, from his leather jacket, to his jeans, his boots, and ends up in an alley without any clothes on).

Renaud 'came back' in 2002 with a huge hit 'Manhattan-Kaboul' (featuring Belgian singer Axelle Red), comparing the lives of a Puerto Rican in NYC to an Afghan girl in Kabul in 2001. This song catapulted his latest album to the top of the charts and earned him various awards in France. His latest album was published in october 2006 and was called "Rouge sang".