LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MEMOIR/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

The city lights are beckoning
Their sirens softly call
All the fantacists and fetishist
Are preparing their ball
We've been stuck here on the doorstep
With nothing to forsake
But we might as well be anyone's to take

So I give myself to strangers
Like I gave myself to you
The tenderness I felt
Has been replaced by something new
And in the end I can vaguely hear an outline of your call
But I may as well be any words at all

Every memory is sailing to the kingdom of your soul
As you patiently await
I lose my sense of self-control
You put the lighthouse to my broken boat
But I left you behind
Now I might as well be anyone's to find

Take my body
Take it from me
It is no warning
Of your memory

Remember you undressing
As I set myself on fire
And the funeral was quick
As I lay lifeless on you part
And it's a kind of desperation
And it's just something you can't fake
How we might as well be anyone's to take

So, I give myself to strangers
Like I gave myself to you
But the unity I felt
Has been replaced by something new
And I hang like Mary Jane
I know that I'm am poor
But I may as well be anyone at all
Yes, I may as well be anyone at all
No, I may as well be anyone at all
No, I may as well be anyone at all

ALBUM: CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "MEMOIR"/VILLAGERS "SET THE TIGERS FREE" Split 7" for RECORD STORE DAY (2011)