{"id":23361,"date":"2016-05-16T04:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:05:28","slug":"songs-in-french-stephan-eicher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/songs-in-french-stephan-eicher\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs in French: Stephan Eicher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer-songwriter who sings in many languages, including French, German, Italian, English, Swiss-German, and Romanche (a Romance language spoken in some areas of Switzerland). While his earliest success began in German-speaking countries, Eicher has become well known in French-speaking countries as well.\u00a0Eicher debuted his career as a techno-punk artist, then gradually changed up his sound for more of a poppy, folk sound. Starting with the album <em>Chansons Bleues<\/em> in 1983, Eicher began to gain international\u00a0critical claim, which continued with the albums <em>Engleberg<\/em> (1991),\u00a0<em>Lounages<\/em> (1999), and <em>Eldorado<\/em> (2007). &#8220;D\u00e9jeuner en paix,&#8221; a single from\u00a0<em>Engleberg<\/em> became a quick sensation in France with lyrics that hinted at the devastation caused by the Gulf War:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;J&#8217;abandonne sur une chaise<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Le journal du matin<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Les nouvelles sont mauvaises<\/em><br \/>\n<em>D&#8217;ou qu&#8217;elles viennent<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;L&#8217;homme est un animal&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Me dit-elle<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Elle prend son cafe en riant<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Et me regarde a peine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Plus rien ne la surprend<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sur la nature humaine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ce pourquoi elle voudrait<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Enfin si je le permets<\/em><br \/>\n<em>D\u00e9jeuner en paix&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I abandon yesterday&#8217;s newspaper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">on a chair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The news is bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">no matter where it comes from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Men are animals,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">she tells me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She drinks her coffee while laughing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and barely looking at me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nothing surprises her anymore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">about human nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s why she would like,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">well if I allowed it,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to have her breakfast in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephan Eicher - D\u00e9jeuner en paix (Clip officiel)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7cP8jGMtAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These somewhat melancholy lyrics were written by the French novelist Philippe Djian during a period of frequent collaboration between him and Eicher.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite songs by Eicher is a more uplifting one, called &#8220;Confettis&#8221; from his 2007 album\u00a0<em>Eldorado.\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s playful and light, and just a beautiful French folk chanson.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics from the first several verses are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Il est tout a fait impensable<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Il est tout a fait hors de question<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Que tu viennes t&#8217;assoir \u00e0 ma table<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Que tu me fasses la conversation<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Il est tout a fait indispensable<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Que l&#8217;air puisse entrer dans mes poumons<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Jamais tu ne seras invuln\u00e9rable<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Jamais tu ne pourras \u00eatre aussi bon<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Je te la laisse, je te la laisse<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ta place au paradis<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Je te la laisse, je te la laisse<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fais-en&#8230; des confettis&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quite unthinkable<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s completely out of the question<\/p>\n<div class=\"par\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"ll-0-2\">That you come to sit at my table<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-0-3\">That you make conversation with me<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-0-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"par\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"ll-1-0\">It&#8217;s completely essential<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-1\">That air can get into my lungs<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-2\">You&#8217;ll never be invulnerable<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-3\">You can never be as good.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<div class=\"ll-2-0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ll let you have it, I&#8217;ll let you have it<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Your place in paradise<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ll let you have it, I&#8217;ll let you have it<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Make it. . .confetti&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephan Eicher - Confettis (clip officiel)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRIHqAZteMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, which Stephan Eicher song do you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer-songwriter who sings in many languages, including French, German, Italian, English, Swiss-German, and Romanche (a Romance language spoken in some areas of Switzerland). 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