Serge GAINSBOURG - Variations on the same love you. Unpublished manuscript

Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)

Autograph manuscript – Variations on the same love you.

Two pages in-4° on watermarked paper.

Slnd [Paris. Spring 1990]

Important manuscript, first draft, of the title song from the album Vanessa Paradis, Variations sur l'ame t'aime recorded from February to April 1990 in the Guillaume Tell Studios in Paris.

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Variations on the same love you

Variations on the same

On the same I love
Always the same theme
I love you, yes I love you
Against that don't know what to do
Of course I love you

It's the same problem
that we ask ourselves
where we go to extremes,
it's enough to drive us crazy,
but still I love you

We could make endless variations of it
All night Day, night

We always ask ourselves the same questions
Enough to lose our reason
Between love and hatred
I hate you, I love you

I come in the umpteenth
  position, that's what bothers me
Who will be next
Who will you fall madly in love with
? No I don't know who

Infinite variations
Is it today
That you will tell me yes or no
Enough to lose your mind
Maybe it's not worth
putting on a whole show

Infinite variations
Is it yesterday, tomorrow, today
Enough to lose your mind
On the theme I love you variations

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The album was released on May 28, 1990 and received tremendous success. 400,000 copies were sold and the record was certified gold and platinum. The singles Tandem , Tell him you that I love you and L'Amour en soi also became huge successes.

This album is the last one that Serge Gainsbourg worked on. He died 9 months after the publication of this opus.

To pay tribute to Gainsbourg, on the 10th anniversary of his death, the album was reissued and again sold 400,000 copies.