DISCOGRAPHY + lyrics
La racine carrée du coeur [ The Square Root of The Heart ]- Released October 1st 2010, distributed by APCM
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[NOTE: these are not literal translations, but re-written lyrics that convey the meaning of the songs without emphasis on the lyrical structure or wordplay found in the originals; our english versions! For the original lyrics, click on FRANÇAIS at top left corner of the page]
1. La force de la gravité - The Force of Gravity
I calculated the force of gravity
That exists between you and me
Standing a metre from one another
My calculations gave me
2.2979794899 x 10-7 Newtons
In Physics class,
I realized Isaac Newton was a romantic
With his theory about gravity
And why our two bodies were attracted to one another
It wasn't an apple that fell on his head
Rather, a bolt of lightning that surged deep inside his being
Dreaming about this mystery,
The answer came in his calculations
''I calculated the force of gravity
That exists between you and me
Standing a metre from one another
My calculations gave me
2.2979794899 x 10-7 Newtons
I calculated that the force of gravity
that pulls us together could grow stronger
If we got closer, what would you say?
If we got closer, the pull would increase''
I'd like to give this theory a new name,
A lovely one
To describe its sublime power
To make people do crazy things
Like an apple that falls on my head,
It feels like lightning, I feel your flash
Illuminated, I let myself be drawn in
By this force that is much stronger than gravity
''Chorus''
2. N'importe quoi - Whatever
Whatever, whatever
Is what I say, whatever
Who cares, what gives
It's no use, whatever
Whatever
I'll get to it, I'll get to it
Give me an instant, I'll get to it
Just a minute, a moment
Give me time, I'll get to it
I'll get to it
Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow
If I have time, maybe tomorrow
I'm busy, you know
If I must, maybe tomorrow
Maybe tomorrow
Too much work, tainted love, homework due, a pile of dept
A sleepless night, vacation, a wave of misfortune, an alarm rang, didn't wake up
A traffic jam, the boss is away
A death
A regret
Once again, once again
It's too late, once again
I wanted to, but not enough
It's no use, whatever
Whatever
3. Thompson - Thompson
From La Salle to Thompson
800 kilometres
No shadow of a creature
Except of my brother
We are listening to Beck
Devils Haircut in my head
Because it's quite inexpensive
We're driving my dad's car
It only takes one day
To get ''nulle part''
Now it's a highway
As if we were going ''quelque part''
We roll, we roll, we roll
On the edge of nowhere
We roll, we roll, we roll
Destination: pile of rocks
To live there, you gotta be tough
A city of miners
A city to wear yourself down
If that's were you live
Limited lifetime guarantee
You will thumb your nose at thee
Right before your escape
It only takes one day
To get ''nulle part''
Now it's a highway
As if we were going ''quelque part''
We roll, we roll, we roll
On the edge of nowhere
We roll, we roll, we roll
When the ducks fly away
All the power lines
flock towards the South
Can't stay more than one day,
can't risk losing your mind
We're leaving town like water off a duck's back
We're taking off
It only takes one day
To get ''nulle part''
Now it's a highway
As if we were going ''quelque part''
We roll, we roll, we roll
On the edge of nowhere
We roll, we roll, we roll
Are we rolling the right way?
4. Les bras - The Arms That Held
Did I tell you, that by the window
We can see the house
It's not too far from here
We can go there tommorow, if you feel well
Did I tell you, this place
It doesn't feel like home
Walking down the halls, let's leave
I'll take you by the hand, if you feel well
I always wanted to believe
That I'd always be able to see you
You didn't warn me
That your hair would turn grey
''I smile, and you understand
How it isn't easy for a child
To see the arms that held them
Lose all of their strength''
Did I tell you that the picture
The one missing from our album
Where I'm asleep
And you cradle me in your arms, I have it
I always wanted to believe
That I'd always be able to see you
You didn't warn me
That your hair would turn grey
''Chorus''
Take me by the hand, kiss my cheek
Hold me tight, once again (bis)
''Chorus''
5. Chanson agricole - Agricultural Song
I was standing, boots in the mud
When her high heels appeared before me
Her heels sank in the ground
Her eyes shone with mystery
She spoke to me of the big city
As if it were a foreign land
She smiled when I spoke
Of mud and of earthworms
Her white hand in my paw
Her high heels close to my boots
I thought we got along
Like two peas in a pod
''I was cultivating my garden
She was Eve, I was Adam
But ever since everything went potato
My heart is a tomato''
Just like a city cat
She left me without warning
I no longer see the stars
Only her footprints in the mud
''Chorus''
I had to dig to decide
If I should really wait for her
But, for a garden to grow
The earth must be tilled before you sow
''Chorus''
6. Je voudrais dire - I Would Love to Say
My hands are trembling
Hidden in my sleeves
My story is knotted in my throat
I would like our eyes to meet
I have a secret
You might know it too
Actually, I think we share this secret
I think we love each other
And we don't know it yet
I would ike to tell you everything
I would love to say I love you
And for you not to hear me
My hands are trembling
I'm afraid everything will change
Once the words are set free
We can't go back
And so, I savour you
My secret, on the tip of my tongue
I would love for you to come closer
For you to take my secret
Ever so softly
I would ike to tell you everything
I would love to say I love you
And for you not to hear me
I have you in my arms for a fleeting moment
My lips close to your ear
I would whisper: "I ..."
But your long locks hair cling to my lips
I tell myself
That's what's stopping me
From finishing my thought
From saying softly
I would love to say I love you
And for you not to hear me
7. À l'épicerie - At the Grocery Store
There she is, standing by the vegetables
And I, by the citrus fruits
Should I approach her?
Hey you, you dated my older brother
Do you remember me?
I’m his little brother
Now that I’m 18
I find you pretty cute and all that
Even more than in the picture
I found in his top drawer
Ignore the hot dogs in my basket
I’d go on a health kick if I were with you
Would you come over?
Bring your apples and your pears
You’ll be the princess of my mansion
Or rather, my parents’ basement
Now that I’m 18
I find you pretty cute and all that
Even more than in the picture
I keep in my coat pocket
You know full well that most guys
Would like to see you do yoga
But I, I see much further than that
Give me a chance, right now
I don’t want to be thirty, taking care
Of your kids after your first ruined marriage
Does it have to come to that
To hold you in my arms…
8. Pause santé - Health Break
It’s time for the health-break
It’s time
Now you can go outside in the cold
You have three minutes and twenty seven
During that time
We will play this little ditty
You will take a walk
And enjoy the fresh air
You look fine on the other side of the window
The smoke laughing on the edge of your lips
And we are smiling on the inside
Inside, we don’t freeze our butts off
Now that the ban is in effect
I am happy
I can sing
Without sputtering or coughing
It must be hell to spend so much money
To feed your cancer
But, we have to throw you outside
In the dead of winter
Now that we have ranted enough
We’re done fumigating, dear Cinder-ellas
Come back, come back
It’s the end of the health break
9. Le Cheval et le carrousel - The Horse and the Carrousel
He dances like a ballerina,
like a whalerina, a whale
that spins and pirouettes
He circles around a woman
She ignores him, he ignores the fact that she ignores him
She has the eyes of a young girl
He has heavy, bespectacled eyes
He’s drunk, and she doesn’t care
That he’s looking her over
She doesn’t care
She’s lost in this great hall
Hidden beneath her hat
She dreams of other things
And he, he still spins around her
Like a horse, fixed to its carrousel
I watch them, as I watch
two trains colliding
And there I am, envying them
At times, I wish I were a train
I’d like to crash and be a train wreck
To take a chance once in a while
I would like to meet another train
At least leave my station
To try my hand at more than a glance
Maybe even get hurt
But I lost her, out of sight
I don’t even see her anymore
I am … no, I follow her
Like a horse derailing from its carrousel
10. Coma - Coma
His name is Coma Coma Coma
"My duty is to
wake up tomorrow
If I’m alive tomorrow
It’s because of the wine"
All day, he’s an ankylosed cadavre
We find him anywhere asleep
like a giant fœtus, all dressed up
He bites in the neck
He bites in the neck
He bites in the neck
He bites in the bottlenecks
He’s a vampire
He pushes the hours right to the end of the night
A shooter shoots and stretches the night
His good judgement and his grey matter
Go from bad to worse
He phones his dad on his cell phone
At 2 :30 a.m. and announces:
"I met the most beautiful girl in the world!
And we’re getting married tonight!"
His name is Coma Coma Coma Coma
His name is Coma Coma Coma Coma
Out for adventure, outdoors
On the sidewalks he sees in double
Triple, quartet vision
To believe it, you gotta drink it
He surfs on the cement blocks
And to keep his balance
In his left hand:
A … a Sauvignon Blanc
If ever his story didn’t end well
A fatal accident
How do we put that behind the Cathedral?
B-B-B-Beer tombstone
Even worse than that
If he continues in this way
In a perpetual state
He will wear his nameplate
His name is Coma Coma Coma Coma
His name is Coma Coma Coma Coma
His name is…
11. Gros peureux - Scaredy Cats
We wake up early in the morning
Half asleep for another day
We stay quiet, listening
How to think without thinking too much
Controlled, exhausted
Still, we must finish in first place
We schedule routines
To become their slaves
We are the next leaders
We are scaredy cats
Forever synthesizing our lives
We question each other, and then embellish
Not too long, not too short, but just enough to impress
And we dream of other things, of being elsewhere
We tell ourselves to be realistic
We tell ourselves lies
And the worst is believing them
We are the next leaders
We are scaredy cats
Foregtting how to do what we really want to
We are…
It seems, if we did what pleases us
We’d be happy, contagiously
But there’s too much pressure
Too much depression
We are the next leaders
We are scaredy cats
Foregtting how to do what we really want to
We are…
12. Partons d'ici - Let's Leave This Place
How ‘bout we go for a stroll
And look at the fancy shoes
On the main strip
They seem to add a lane every year
A little more earth paved over
It’s construction season after all
The ruts are dug deeper
We shuttle back and forth day after day
The artery in my neighborhood is swollen
With a thousand of these cars
Behind their smoky sex symbol shroud
Let’s leave this place, far from this concrete cemetery
The skyscrapers look like tombstones
While the summer wind blows
How ‘bout we go a stroll
But here, we won’t burden our feet
Sure it’s impulsive, but we might as well…
Take the car and go
To Shop-mart and buy the useless things we need
I remember the people
The noble corner store
They’re gone like me, looking for a bigger piece of the pie
My children and I have all put on thirty pounds
They can’t even run
Let’s leave this place
Far from this embalmed bedroom town
I’ll close its eyelids, the garage doors are sealed shut
Let’s leave this place, this time, let us go on foot
Let’s leave this place, we’ll forget the suburbs
How ‘bout we go for a stroll
and look at the fancy shoes
How ‘bout we go for a stroll
13. Voyageuse - Voyageuse
A prisonner of this storm
I see a clearing in the sky
I sit on the shore
Waiting on Mother Nature
To send us a beaming sun
To light the sky anew
That its light inspires
So soon, the sky will clear
We’ve been gone a few days
I no longer see time pass
We left our worries behind
Cherishing the moment
In canoes, we travel
Laughing and singing
Our voices are woven in unison
To leave their sound to the wind
When the clouds hide the sun
When lighting illuminates up the sky
To ignite a triumphant hymn
Scintillating
We thank the gentle rain
That unveils blue skies
A little effort, it’s time to go
To paddle all day long
