Les Nuits album lyrics, typed and corrected by Laurent Gerlinger. LES NUITS Les nuits Sont noires L'envie L'espoir Le nom De Dieu Il pleut Toujours A time to weep A time to laugh A time to speak A time to keep silence Les jours Sont blancs L'oiseau L'enfant Les nuits Sont noires L'envie L'espoir Et moi Je suis Colère L'envie A time to born A time to die A time for war A time for peace Les nuits Sont noires L'envie L'espoir Et toi Tu es Le jour La nuit THE RISING SUN Black When the night is falling down on me Grey I see the outline of the tree Mylove and I were walking Through a waving wood The sky was blue My love and I were walking On a frozen lake The setting sun Blue Every morning is a mystery White In the outline of my door My love and I, we fall asleep In white rooms Of our memory My love and I, we disagree On temperance And destiny How can we change? What can we do? Our hands are black Our soul are blue The long long years What have we done? We turn our heads The rising sun THE EIFFEL TOWER Here I am with my child on the Eiffel tower Looking down When the light disappears Paris is a frozen town Now she turns her face to the camera A photograph And the river is a diamond snake Around her head I can't see it anymore Nobody's knocking on my door And e dream that we fall with a parachute Like angles do We look at the world through the eyes of birds Feather words I can't feel it anymore Nobody's knocking on my door We land in a street where poets live Where painters died The smell in a shop Vinagar and artichoke I can't taste it anymore Somebody's knocking on my door We sleep in a night on the stones of Père Père Lachaise We look at the names of Jim Morrison And Chopin THE RED DOG Red dog Green barn Brown car Yellow moon Shine Man sings Girls speaks Door slams Cold wind Blows Backyard Mainsteet Warehouse Nine to Five Suitecase Airport Perfume Bye Hometown Birthday Handshake Rains falls Down Coalmine Folkdance Lightbulb Angel Eyes Knock knock Black rock Foglamp Horseshoe Falls Lovesick Whirlpool Band plays Bye bye Love THE LONG SONG Each day I start Thinking about it We know by now There's no love without it Why is it taking so long Till late in the evening? Did I just wake up again Or was I not sleeping? And hold me hold me hold me Till the time has come Hold me hold me and hold me Till it's done So hold me hold me hold me Till the time as come And hold me hold me hold me When it's done THE LAUNDERETTE Saw the angel Falling down Near the laundrette On the sidewalk Falling down Saw the angel Falling down Near the laundrette On the ground Oh verything's frozen In my soul I am sleeping Oh everything's frozen In my soul I am sleeping Sleeping Mmmmmm It falls like the rain in my eye The icicle from the sky I am frozen I see the light in the sky And the clouds The icicle falling down Through my heart I am frozen It falls like the rain in my eye The icicle from the sky I am frozen I see the light in the sky And the clouds The icicle falling down Through my heart Frozen The sound of a train On the railway arch Through my head I'm sleeping Frozen angel THE PIZZERIA I had a terrible dream The hour was early I walk in my neighbourhood I turn a corner I see a river blood With angels drowing Devils with black parachutes Fall down with bare feet On the street With sound of a thunder Incredibly loud My hands are on my ears I had a beautiful dream The hour was late I felt incredibly light A hundred keys in thousand pieces Were flying like dragonflies Over my head into the street It was a beautiful sight Like icicles in light I had a terrible dream The ovens in the pizzeria Were burning like hell The dryers in the laundrette Werre turning red It was a terrible sight I heard the barcodes beep THE KEY SHOP (WAR & PEACE) The streets are red with raindrops Falling from the crying sky It's in my ear It's in my eye A man outside the laundrette Is falling on the rainy street It's in my ear It's in my eye War and peace Live together like siamese twins One stops The other begins War and peace War and peace I am a believer In the things I can see with my eyes No burning hell No paradise A man outside the key shop He stops and waves goodbye It's in my ear It's in my eye War and peace Live together like siamese twins One stops The other begins War and peace War and peace Dead man on the sidewalk Raindrops from the crying sky It's in my ear It's in my eye War and peace Live together like siamese twins One stops The other begins War and peace War and peace THE WIND-UP BIRD Somebody said that it's red But she knows it's blue There are so many things in her life That she wants to do Sometimes she cries Waving her sad goodbyes She says "Life is a mystery It a tree with a wind-up bird" With a wind-up bird Sometimes she smiles Sometimes she's Charlie Chaplin She's Charlie C. for a while She says "Life is a mystery It a tree with a wind-up bird" The change in the weather Is changing her mood today With a wind-up bird There are so many things in her life That she has to say With a wind-up bird Sometimes she hurts Sometimes she can be a dying tree Using bitter words She says "Life is a dying tree Look at me I'm a wind-up bird" I'm a wind-up bird Her head is an attic Packed with broken things She cannot remeber them Only when sh sings Somtimes it rains Somtimes it raining diamonds Diamonds in her brain She says "Life is a mystery It a tree with a wind-up bird" Wind-up bird With a wind-up bird Wind-up bird With a wind-up bird Wind-up bird Ahhhh THE HOLE Into a town Into a street Into a house There's a hole Into a room In a wall There's a hole The cloud on a lake The comma of the World There's a hole There's a hole In my heart She looks at me As if I were a mirror There's a hole There's a hole In my heart I saw the sky and the stars I saw the trees and the leaves There's a hole There's a hole In my heart Lokk at this town Lokk at this street Look at this house Look at this wall There's a hole There's a hole In my heart I see the wall I see the room I see the house I see the street I see the town There's a hole Black crows in a yellow field A window with a thousand keys There's a hole There's a hole In my heart I saw the child on a beach I saw the rain on the leaves There's a hole There's a hole In my heart And it falls like the rain in a forest It falls like rain in our hearts THE MILKMAN Oli told me When we walked down He was the milkman In his hometown I wish that life was always simple I wish that it would never rain Every morning Or should I say night He delivered the bottles Before the first light He was the milkman And she was the cook It sounds like a story From some old-fashioned book I wish that life was always like that Never a cloud above our head They fell in love As simple as that He brought the milk And she baked the bread