Bagatelle
Yann Tiersen Lyrics
Tiens, une petite voix me glisse
Quatre vérités
Qui passent la rampe et gravissent
L'escalier
Les jambes tirent
Et les yeux ont tourné
Va savoir
Où la bouche est tombée
Comme museau levé j'écoute
La voix, je la suis
Top, là! Échangeons des nuits pour
Des nuits
Du coup, l'aube
En sort toute retournée
Le bourreau
A du mal à trancher
Et aussitôt
Quelqu'un manque
Et de rien le jour
Est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle
S'absenter
Bagatelle, que m'as-tu promis?
Où m'as-tu mené?
Les petites vagues sen sont vite
Emportées
Et morflant
Sous cape, comme habitué
On a vite
Sa table, ses entrées
Des retours de flamme s'annoncent
Leurs trains sont attendus
Ma pancarte est inutile, ils
M'ont reconnu
Dans l'hélice
Où mes doigts sont passés
Je m'avance
Histoire de bien capter
Car rien à faire
Quelqu'un manque
Et de rien le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle
S'absenter
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Written by: Yann Pierre Tiersen, Dominique Ane
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Yann Tiersen (born in Brest, Brittany, France on 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. Read Full BioYann Tiersen (born in Brest, Brittany, France on 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. He started learning piano at the age of four, taking up violin at the age of six and receiving classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Yann Tiersen has collaborated with vocal artists like Claire Pichet ("Le phare" and "Rue des cascades"), Elizabeth Fraser ("Les retrouvailles") and Shannon Wright ("Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright"). Other musicians he has worked with include The Divine Comedy, Noir Désir, Dominique A., Francoiz Breut, Les Têtes Raides, The Married Monk and Sage Francis
Tiersen got a musical education from the city of Rennes' annual Transmusicales festival, seeing acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television and Suicide. When his band broke up a few years later, instead of hunting for some new musicians, he bought a cheap mixing desk, an eight-track reel, and started recording music solo with a synth, sampler and drum machine, poring over the grooves of old records on the hunt for loops and orchestral strings to plunder.
As it turned out, though, the key to his new approach lay in his own past. "One day I thought, instead of spending days on research and listening to tons of records to find the nearest sound of what I have in mind, why don't I fix this fucking violin and use it?" Through the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with guitar, violin and accordion, guided not by the classical canon, but by intuition and his vision of "a musical anarchy".
By the end of the summer of 1993, Tiersen had recorded over 40 tracks, which would form the bulk of his first two albums. 1995's La Valse Des Monstres, inspired by Tod Browning's Freaks and Yukio Mishima's The Damask Drum was the second album to be released on Nancy-based label Ici, d'ailleurs. It would be followed six months later by Rue Des Cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion and mandolin. Six years later, the record would find a much larger audience when several tracks, along with a couple of Tiersen originals, would be used on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie (2001).
Tiersen's commercial breakthrough would come earlier, though, and off his own back. 1998's Le Phare (The Light House) was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ouessant, where Tiersen spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Creach'h, the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, as it illuminated the surrounding scenery. "I was amazed how the rays of lights from the lighthouse revealed some hidden details of the land, how we can rediscover something we have everyday, just in front of us, by a light pointing on it," says Tiersen.
Le Phare went on to sell over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most pioneering and original artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums like 2001's L'Absente (featuring orchestral group Synaxis, Lisa Germano and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon) and 2005's Les Retrouvailles (with guests Stuart Staples of Tindersticks, Jane Birkin and Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins). In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet – a set-up captured on 2002's electrifying live album C'etait ici. And following the box-office success of Amelie, Tiersen's skills as a soundtracker were much in demand, leading to scores for the likes of Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Tabarly (2008), a documentary about the French sailor Éric Tabarly, who ate his final meal on Ouessant Island before he meeting a watery end in the Irish sea.
Discography:
La valse des monstres (1995)
Rue des cascades (1996)
Le phare (1998)
Tout est calme (1999)
Black session (1999, radio concert)
L'absente (2001)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001, Soundtrack)
C'était ici (2002, Live and Best Of)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003, Soundtrack)
Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright (2004)
Les Retrouvailles (2005)
On Tour (2006, Live)
Tabarly (2008)
Dust Lane (2010)
Tiersen has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. Read Full BioYann Tiersen (born in Brest, Brittany, France on 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. He started learning piano at the age of four, taking up violin at the age of six and receiving classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Yann Tiersen has collaborated with vocal artists like Claire Pichet ("Le phare" and "Rue des cascades"), Elizabeth Fraser ("Les retrouvailles") and Shannon Wright ("Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright"). Other musicians he has worked with include The Divine Comedy, Noir Désir, Dominique A., Francoiz Breut, Les Têtes Raides, The Married Monk and Sage Francis
Tiersen got a musical education from the city of Rennes' annual Transmusicales festival, seeing acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television and Suicide. When his band broke up a few years later, instead of hunting for some new musicians, he bought a cheap mixing desk, an eight-track reel, and started recording music solo with a synth, sampler and drum machine, poring over the grooves of old records on the hunt for loops and orchestral strings to plunder.
As it turned out, though, the key to his new approach lay in his own past. "One day I thought, instead of spending days on research and listening to tons of records to find the nearest sound of what I have in mind, why don't I fix this fucking violin and use it?" Through the summer of 1993, Tiersen stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with guitar, violin and accordion, guided not by the classical canon, but by intuition and his vision of "a musical anarchy".
By the end of the summer of 1993, Tiersen had recorded over 40 tracks, which would form the bulk of his first two albums. 1995's La Valse Des Monstres, inspired by Tod Browning's Freaks and Yukio Mishima's The Damask Drum was the second album to be released on Nancy-based label Ici, d'ailleurs. It would be followed six months later by Rue Des Cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion and mandolin. Six years later, the record would find a much larger audience when several tracks, along with a couple of Tiersen originals, would be used on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie (2001).
Tiersen's commercial breakthrough would come earlier, though, and off his own back. 1998's Le Phare (The Light House) was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ouessant, where Tiersen spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Creach'h, the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, as it illuminated the surrounding scenery. "I was amazed how the rays of lights from the lighthouse revealed some hidden details of the land, how we can rediscover something we have everyday, just in front of us, by a light pointing on it," says Tiersen.
Le Phare went on to sell over 160,000 copies, confirming Tiersen's status as one of the most pioneering and original artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums like 2001's L'Absente (featuring orchestral group Synaxis, Lisa Germano and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon) and 2005's Les Retrouvailles (with guests Stuart Staples of Tindersticks, Jane Birkin and Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins). In this period, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet – a set-up captured on 2002's electrifying live album C'etait ici. And following the box-office success of Amelie, Tiersen's skills as a soundtracker were much in demand, leading to scores for the likes of Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Tabarly (2008), a documentary about the French sailor Éric Tabarly, who ate his final meal on Ouessant Island before he meeting a watery end in the Irish sea.
Discography:
La valse des monstres (1995)
Rue des cascades (1996)
Le phare (1998)
Tout est calme (1999)
Black session (1999, radio concert)
L'absente (2001)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001, Soundtrack)
C'était ici (2002, Live and Best Of)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003, Soundtrack)
Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright (2004)
Les Retrouvailles (2005)
On Tour (2006, Live)
Tabarly (2008)
Dust Lane (2010)
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Andrés Loránaka
Tiens, une petite voix me glisse quatre vérités
Qui passent la rampe et gravissent l'escalier
Les jambes tirent et les yeux ont tourné
Va savoir, où la bouche est tombée
Comme museau levé j'écoute, la voix je la suis
Top là, échangeons des nuits pour des nuits
Du coup l'aube en sort toute retournée
Le bourreau a du mal à trancher
Et aussitôt, quelqu'un manque et de rien
Le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Bagatelle que m'as-tu promis?
Où m'as-tu mené?
Les petites vagues se sont vite emportées
Et morflant, sous cape, comme habitué
On a vite sa table, ses entrées
Des retours de flamme s'annoncent
Leur trains sont attendus
Ma pancarte est inutile, ils m'ont reconnu
Dans l'hélice où mes doigts sont passés
Je m'avance histoire de bien capter
Car rien à faire quelqu'un manque et de rien
Le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Catalin Dragomir
Tiens, une petite voix me glisse quatre verités
Qui passent la rampe et gravissent l'escalier
Les jambes tirent et les yeux ont tourné
Va savoir, où la bouche est tombée
Comme museau levé j'écoute, la voix je la suis
Top là, échangeons des nuits pour des nuits
Du coup l'aube en sort toute retournée
Le bourreau a du mal à trancher
Et aussitôt, quelqu'un manque et de rien, le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Bagatelle, que m'as tu promis? Où m'as-tu mené?
Les petites vagues se sont vite emportées
Et morflant, sous cape, comme habitué
On a vite sa table, ses entrées
Des retours de flamme s'annoncent
Leurs trains sont attendus
Ma pancarte est inutile, ils m'ont reconnu
Dans l'helice où mes doigts sont passés
Je m'avance l'histoire de bien capter
Car rien à faire quelqu'un manque et de rien le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Mehmet Emre Aktuna
for me, just for me, this is the best song of Yann Tiersen.
antoniotvfan
si!!! soy mexicano y recién empeze a adorar a yann tiersen...
PhysicianMasquerade
Este hombre logra hacer de toodooo!.. Me encantaaa!
Andrés Loránaka
Tiens, une petite voix me glisse quatre vérités
Qui passent la rampe et gravissent l'escalier
Les jambes tirent et les yeux ont tourné
Va savoir, où la bouche est tombée
Comme museau levé j'écoute, la voix je la suis
Top là, échangeons des nuits pour des nuits
Du coup l'aube en sort toute retournée
Le bourreau a du mal à trancher
Et aussitôt, quelqu'un manque et de rien
Le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Bagatelle que m'as-tu promis?
Où m'as-tu mené?
Les petites vagues se sont vite emportées
Et morflant, sous cape, comme habitué
On a vite sa table, ses entrées
Des retours de flamme s'annoncent
Leur trains sont attendus
Ma pancarte est inutile, ils m'ont reconnu
Dans l'hélice où mes doigts sont passés
Je m'avance histoire de bien capter
Car rien à faire quelqu'un manque et de rien
Le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Marlenn
am listening to it all the time and i cannot stop! it's addicting! oughhh, i love it!
Mabelyn Anahi
Un ser Completo!❤❤
MartiniqueL
He's just... Brilliant!
Catalin Dragomir
Tiens, une petite voix me glisse quatre verités
Qui passent la rampe et gravissent l'escalier
Les jambes tirent et les yeux ont tourné
Va savoir, où la bouche est tombée
Comme museau levé j'écoute, la voix je la suis
Top là, échangeons des nuits pour des nuits
Du coup l'aube en sort toute retournée
Le bourreau a du mal à trancher
Et aussitôt, quelqu'un manque et de rien, le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Bagatelle, que m'as tu promis? Où m'as-tu mené?
Les petites vagues se sont vite emportées
Et morflant, sous cape, comme habitué
On a vite sa table, ses entrées
Des retours de flamme s'annoncent
Leurs trains sont attendus
Ma pancarte est inutile, ils m'ont reconnu
Dans l'helice où mes doigts sont passés
Je m'avance l'histoire de bien capter
Car rien à faire quelqu'un manque et de rien le jour est chargé
Et tout peut se charger d'absence
Rien qui sache mieux qu'elle s'absenter
Ilana X.
love this piece!! ♥
N.y.s.A. Yeralmi
verdadera Musica !!!!!!!!!!