“Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape” by Serge Gainsbourg.
"To believe in heaven, to believe in gods – Even when everything seems hateful – When our hearts are set ablaze."
3.000€
"To believe in heaven, to believe in gods – Even when everything seems hateful – When our hearts are set ablaze."
3.000€
Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)
Autographed notes signed – Fleeing happiness for fear that it might escape.
Two in-4° pages on Floch printing paper.
Without place or date [Paris. 1986]
"To believe in heaven, to believe in gods – Even when everything seems hateful – When our hearts are set ablaze."
Serge Gainsbourg corrected and approved the lyrics to one of his masterpieces, " Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve" (Fleeing Happiness for Fear It May Escape), composed in 1983 for Jane Birkin and her album *Baby Alone in Babylone*. The lyrics were published in the anthology * Mon propre rôle* (My Own Role) published by Denoël.
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Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
May the azure sky not turn mauve
Think about it or move on to something else
It would be better
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
To think that there is over the rainbow
Higher and higher, the sky above
Radiant
To believe in heaven, to believe in gods
Even when everything seems hateful to us
That our heart is set ablaze and burned
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
Like a little mouse in a corner of an alcove
To glimpse the tip of its pink tail
His feverish eyes
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
To think that there is over the rainbow
Higher and higher, the sun above
Radiant
To believe in heaven, to believe in gods
Even when everything seems hateful to us
That our heart is set ablaze and burned
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
Sometimes you feel like shouting "Save us!"
Who can truly know the truth of things?
Is unhappy
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
To think that there is over the rainbow
Higher and higher, the sun above
Radiant
To believe in heaven, to believe in gods
Even when everything seems hateful to us
That our heart is set ablaze and burned
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
Tell me you still love me, if you dare.
I would like you to find something else
Better
Fleeing from happiness for fear that it might escape
To think that there is over the rainbow
Higher and higher, the sun above
Radiant
OK SG
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Bibliography: My Own Role . Denoël. 1987