Un Baiser D'Enfant

[brillo69]

Unfortunatly, due to strict proboard regulations, I am unable to post the lyrics to this song.

I shall post a link to the lyrics instead.


The Link:

Un Baiser D'enfant Lyrics.

[stev0]

Am I the only one who likes how Kate's voice sounds in this one better than the original?

[Sheila]

No, my friend, you are not. I heard this version months before I ever heard "The Infant Kiss" and, although not easily shocked, was minutely appaled (in a Michael Jackson way--I have since seen "The Innocents" and understand the song better) to find such a pretty, gorgeous, emotional song be about something so weird.

I have a theory. She knew "The Infant Kiss" was one of her most challenging (lyrically) songs, and "Ne Ten Fui Pas" was one of her lamest (lyrically) songs so she recorded them in French because they sounded cool that way. She plans everything!

[tabatha]

I haven't heard htis, does any one know where I can get this in Mp3 format?

[paul1574]

this is DEFINATELY better en francais than it is in English

it doesnt sound right in english but in french it flows like most of kates other work

[tabatha]

Really, I prefer it in English, I like the French, but it doesn't seem right. I keep writing the lyrics in my French class, I think my teacher must know them all by now.

[tannis]

"Un Baiser d'enfant"

Je dis bonne nuit-nuit.
Je le borde dans le lit.
Mais ca ne va pas.

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Un baiser.
Ca me fait fremir.

Je n'ai jamais avant
Aimee un enfant
Sans controle.

Il n'est qu'un jeune, et a l'ecole.
Chez nous ils n'aimeront pas.
Sa petite main joue dans mon coeur,
Juste la ou ca fait mal.
Toc-toc. Qui est dans ce bebe?
Tu sais bien y faire.

Toutes les barrieres tombent.
Ca va se voir.
Ca se voit. Ca se voit. Ce se voit.

Je ne peux laisser faire
Je le regretterais.
Ouh, il m'effraie!

Il y a un homme la dans les yeux.
Je le vois en me penchant.

Ouh, il me fait peur
Quand ils chuchotent entre eux.
-
Le vent souffle.

Sur leurs levres des caresses
Qui parlent de l'amour.

Je veux frapper, je me retiens.
Je veux juste toucher.

Je dois rester et arreter
Tout ca avant qu'il soit trop tard!

Toutes les barrieres tombent.
Ca va ce voir.
Ca se voit. Ca se voit. Ca se voit,
L'amour.**

[**--"L'amour": This last word ("love") is found only in the French version.]

Un baiser (noun) means "A kiss".
Baiser (verb) used to be the word for "to kiss" in old French, but now it really means "to f**k".

So, in KT's song, there is little doubt that it can only be translated by "infant kiss". But still, the translation is not correct as "the" can't be translated by "un" (article for "a" or "an"). So if "the" is the article for kiss, it should have been translated by "Le baiser de l'enfant".

Of course, words have links and connotations whether used in a formally "correct" way or not, and the double meaning of "baiser" is well known.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baiser

Whether or not it was ever intentional - who knows?! ...



Le Baiser (The Kiss), Carolus-Duran, 1868

Kate Bush - The Infant Kiss (fan-made video) - en français
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSevsMRmJI
Here is the video I made for Kate Bush's song "The Infant Kiss" using the audio from the French language version of the song "Un Baiser d'Enfant"...
Wow! I like it even more in French. Feels more complicated.

Tristan and Isolde are deeply woven into modern love tragedy. The funeral song for Tristan, Mild und Leise, is the song of the love that challenges the power of death itself. Before Rock and Roll there were only Opera to work the emotions on the grand scale that only music can, and here Isolde has taken the drink that will bind her for ever to Tristan, and Romeo to Juliet, and Cathy to Heathcliff, and Quint to....
"Cathy" (JCB, 1986)
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Description: KATE BUSH Cathy
Extremely rare 1986 UK 7" x 10" high quality hessian bound hardback photobook by John Carder Bush - Kate's Brother - featuring a superb selection of previously unpublished black & white photographs of Kate as a child around eight years old. Each photo is superbly mounted with the prior pages die cut with annotations from John about the picture & Kate at the time. The whole is protected by an outer peach card slipcase - Incredible!
Privately pressed by a Kent printer, this was originally going to be the first of a series of three books, depicting Kate first as a child, then a teenager, then as an adult. The project was abandoned when her brother realised just how much Kate treasured her privacy & did not want to cause her upset by publishing further photos. This was the first & only one of the series to see the light of day.
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All my barriers are going
It's starting to show
Let go. Let go. Let go
(Don't let go!)

see more:
THE INNOCENTS (1961)
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