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Coffee

Tal — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:38:46 +0000

4’10” / Written & performed by Tal Zana.

Vocals by Jeanne Gignoux & F. Ousman Glowinski

Coffee

Now that you’re here
There is no fear
I see you close your eyes at night
And in the morning you are
Near me
So good to be
Waking up with you
Making you coffee
And thinking of all those years
We hid behind those tears
How I love you today
How I wish that you would not go away

Baby I know
All I need to know
And what you did when you were gone
Those sleepless moments are just
Lost time
They vanish when I’m
Waking up with you
Making you coffee
The day that I saw you pack
Her fingernail down my back
And a million more things
Fade away and disappear
When you’re here

And when you rise
Your eyes still look for me
You hold me and I see
That you don’t understand, girl
Why my mind wanders like it does
When I remember how it was
To be waking up alone
Drinking my coffee

Lollipop

Tal — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:17:55 +0000

3’21” / Words & Music by Tal Zana

Written and recorded overnight on February 26th of 2006.

Lollipop

Every time you smiled
I believe you saw me
Every time you cried
I believe you heard me
Every time you dreamed
I believe you woke me
Every time you fell
I believe you hurt me
Every time you smile

But every time I cried
I believe you cried, too
And every time I slipped
There was no one there to hold to
And every time I died
You were not an angel
And all this time alone
Waiting for my love

Daddy’s built a house for you
of chocolate, cream and candy, too
Mommy fixed you nice and clean
so you can be all hot and mean
There’s just one thing that you forget
my beloved Juliet
When will you grow up and stop
sucking on my lollipop?

The Whipped Cream and the Razor

Tal — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:38:20 +0000

4’22” / Words & Music by Tal Zana

A short love story told with Rhodes and a synth lead, written and recorded on a November day of 2005.

The Whipped Cream and the Razor

He met her on a journey
to a lullaby
Her hair was trickling light and
twisted rhymes

July was tailing april
as though june didn’t care
He took his time and she did
too

Her face was like a worn-out
parade of dead desire
marching with a steady
beat

Her smile was like a razor
With whipped cream on the side
So happy she could kill some
time

He didn’t mind his own blood
as long as she was there and
made sure he wouldn’t pass out

Together they lived out their
torrential gale of pain
until her laugh extinguished
his

She said she couldn’t stand the
bloodstains anymore
and disappeared into the
night

He wandered like a scarecrow
who ran all out of whisky
through endless fields of sorrow

His tourniquet all loose now
he ran into a woman
who loved him like an angel

She tried to stop the bleeding
but he could only think of
the whipped cream and the razor
and you

Oh baby, how I love you

December

Tal — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:45:34 +0000

4’22” / Words & Music by Tal Zana

Arrangements & Vocals by Jeanne Gignoux

Written and recorded over a period of several weeks in the winter of 2003. This is the only recording where I used a Shure TLM-103 microphone, which worked nicely with Jeanne’s crystal-clear vocals.

The beautiful Washington D.C. photograph used for the thumbnail image courtesy of Keith Stanley.

December

Winter chills your skin
Let me breathe through December with you
The snow on your pretty face
is like tears in a frozen embrace

All the birds have flown out of town
and the rain is so blue
Your hands are cold
and tomorrow in your eyes
I will see that September is gone

A frosty night with you
makes me wish May will never come
Just cry, don’t you say a word,
shiver slowly
like when I first saw you

In your old red shirt
You said my new skirt
made you dream of cherry

You gazed at the sun
Spring had just begun
Breathing you was sweeping me off my feet

And then we’ll go
We’ll go someplace red,
like Berlin

You know that’s what we should do

Winter chills your skin
Let me breathe through December with you

La suite du 52

Tal — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:53:13 +0000

1’44” / Words ad-libbed by Jeanne Gignoux

Music & Arrangements by Jeanne Gignoux, Tal Zana & Georges Lafitte

Written and recorded in two days in 2003, this was mostly done for fun. We were recording on-the-fly with anything that we found around us: Coca-Cola cans, notebooks, ashtrays, trash cans… Jeanne improvised the crazy and meaningless lyrics in one take.

La suite du 52

See my face on the riverside
You gotta get down
You gotta get down
You gotta get down

I say now
Give up your life to the bride
You gotta get down
You gotta get down
You gotta get down

Wowowowow, Wowowowow, Ya-pow!
Wowowowow, Wowowowow, Ya-pow!
Wowowowow, Wowowowow, Ya-pow!
Aow!

I always need
I got to get on down
(see my face)
Got to get on down

Riverside, riverside,
Riverside, riverside,
Riverside, riverside,
Riverside, river, riverside!

(gotta get, gotta get)

Gotta get down
Gotta get down
Gotta get