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I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same
I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same

I was outside on the morning that it started
The Earth bled in her garden
Blood-soaked soil
One of us
I was so naive
I was just a little girl
When they turned the whole world
Into something dangerous

And I never should have let it happen
Never should have let it get so bad
I was caught up in my emotions
Blinded by the ocean of red
And I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same
I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same

There were people screaming
Running
Looking for some shelter
I took my umbrella
Covered from the dangerous
My imagination put it down to something else
The sky was just unwell
The ground was too precipitous

And I never should have let it happen
Never should have let it get so bad
I was caught up in my emotions
Blinded by the ocean of red
And I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same
I woke up to blood rain
Never gonna be the same

It's not the first time that it's happened
I know it will happen again
But every time it does
I'm startled
I'm shocked and scared and alarmed by it
And the clouds will clear
I know that
I know there'll be sunshine again
But this time it's darker than ever
I just hope we can weather it

Blood Rain

No Gods In The Machine

The Flying Club Cup

Nantes

Shadow People

Dimanche (feat. Bertrand Belin)

Rest

Ring-A-Ring O' Roses

Lying With You

Take 2

Bombs Away

Closer To Grey

The Sound Of Silence

Sometimes it takes a personal tragedy to catalyse an artist’s practise, a crack in everything, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen, that let’s the creative light in. Just such a traumatic fissure occurred in Charlotte Gainsbourg’s life in late 2013 with the sudden death in Paris of her half-sister, the fashion photographer Kate Barry. Reeling from the news and inevitably plunged into an extended period of grieving, the distressing event had transpired just as Charlotte was initiating activity on a new album, the successor to 2010’s IRM. Rather than put a total brake on creative proceedings, however, the anguish would slowly but inexorably find expression in the pages of Charlotte’s journal and thus, eventually, in the lyrics of the songs that she would write for Rest, her long-gestating but ultimately cathartic third studio album.

Ring-A-Ring O' Roses

Charlotte Gainsbourg

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