Serge GAINSBOURG – Signed typewritten manuscript – Flashback.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Signed typewritten manuscript – Flashback.

One page in-4° with corrections and redactions. Slnd [Paris. 1972]

Full text of the song Flash-Back written for Petula Clark.

Magnificent document – ​​with nostalgic accents by Melody Nelson – corrected in the text by Gainsbourg.

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Flashback

I returned to my street

Under the gray sky of my youth

Where the brick walls stand

In dead-end passages.

a heavy heart I went down

Slowly of my Mercédace

The children were saying who is this

Opening big, innocent eyes

They stop their hoop games

And approach the car

Whose aggressive color

Made them let go

Adrift

Their paper boats

Everything comes back to me in a flashback

Like under the lens of an old Kodak

I see myself again, poor little girl

In a winter halo where it cracks

The phosphorus of a match

And under this light

Who falters and then dies

Shot by camera in slow motion

A pretty boy

Runs up and screams my name

Then the vision fades

Where are you mom dad

And you my love my tenderness

What good is all wealth?

Of a man we don't like

Gainsbourg.

Bibliography: The Gainsbook, in the studio with Serge Gainsbourg. S. Merlet. Ed. Seghers.