Colours /
Les garnisons de mon coeur
Colours: imagination to the rescue, inventing colours when there’s nothing but greyness around you; and suddenly, as if by a magical power of visualization, fantasy becomes reality, and you see a ray of sunshine brighten up the greyness of everyday life.
Les garnisons de mon cœur (the garrisons of my heart) : in my adaptation work, I came to shift the theme of the song while respecting its dynamics. The greyness of everyday life becomes a grey gaze turned inward, a depreciation of oneself that leads to a warning when someone attempts a romantic approach: « Prends garde à toi si tu m’aimes »/“Beware if you love me”. But a ray of sunshine pierces through all the self-deprecating strategies as soon as one can no longer take that warning seriously and one feels ready, once again, to take the risk of loving. The garrisons that protected the heart have fallen.
Colours
Written by
Tim Hutton
Looking out from day to day / At a dirty old expensive motorway / I dream of colours when all around is grey / I dream of colours and sunlight
There's a way I'd rather be / Than the person who pretends that he is me / I dream of colours to be what I would be / I dream of colours, it inspires me
Suddenly, a shaft of light breaks through / Illuminates the room / When all around was darkened /
And tender hues of light and shade / It paints a picture of an / Altogether brighter day /
Looking out from day to day / At a dirty old expensive motorway / I dream of colours when all around is grey / I dream of colours… and sunlight
Les garnisons de mon cœur
French kiss by
François Godin
Je passe ma vie à me faire des peurs / J’aime aussi chercher midi à quatorze heures / Je pourrais remplir une baignoire de mes pleurs / Prends garde à toi si tu m’aimes
J’ai joué l’indifférence / J’ai tout fait pour résister à tes avances / Sans voir qu’une à une tombaient mes défenses / Quel beau, quel vaste problème
Aujourd’hui j’abdique, je t’avoue / C’est fou comme tu te joues/ Des garnisons de mon cœur
L’amour, je lui tournais le dos / L’amour, je sais encore demain / M’arrachera la peau
Je passe ma vie à me faire des peurs / J’aime aussi chercher midi à quatorze heures / Je pourrais remplir une baignoire de mes pleurs / Prends garde à toi car… je t’aime
The Garrisons of My Heart
Translation of the
French adaptation
I spend my life scaring myself / Always making things more complicated than they are / I could fill a bathtub with my tears / Beware if you love me
I pretended to be indifferent / I did my best to resist your romantic advances / Without seeing that one by one my defenses were falling / What a beautiful, vast problem
Today I abdicate, I confess / I just can’t believe how you bypass / The garrisons of my heart
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Love, I turned my back on it / Love, I know it, tomorrow again / Will tear my skin off
I spend my life scaring myself / Always making things more complicated than they are / I could fill a bathtub with my tears / Beware because… I love you
The voice/piano demos of the French versions were recorded for the strict purpose of presenting my adaptation work. No broadcasting or public sharing on social networks, media or any other platform is authorized.
Any recording or public presentation by third parties of the songs in their French version is subject to my authorization as well as that of the rights holders of the original song.
