CocoRosie – Tekno Love Song

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I fell in love with a bad bad man
Ever since I met him I've been sad sad sad
I'm a jail bird to your music
I'm a criminal in your prayer
I watch you in your sleep even when you're not there
Rainbows wept colour all over the streets
When you went away maybe one day we'll meet
Lip stick I'd wear for one million years
Just to stop your eyes from falling them tears

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Track duration: 03:54


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    General Comment:Comaredpallid is right about it being Bianca's voice with pitch shifted ;)
    Still my favorite CocoRosie song, perhaps the best love song ever.
    Flag MarcusRaptuson November 14, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i love that poem! thank you for posting it.. where can hear it?
    Flag shellboyon June 15, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:cocorosie is so good
    Flag wereTHRIVINGon January 24, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i love this.
    "i haven't slept a wink since 1916...i wasn't born then but sure feels times been tickin'" is genius.

    i feel like its very simple to figure out what shes talking about..someone just being terrible to her and yet she still is madly in love while he's done with her and really not that great.
    But listen to the way the music is this mix of upbeat simple sounds...and then her incredible voice adds that eerie almost depressing twist..just like the lyrics. Like 'Rainbows wept colour all over the streets.' Rainbows are happy and have this positive conotation but directly after we see that it's weeping color on the streets..making me think of a melting rainbow..not exactly the happiest thought..so once again depressing twist. Then you can tie this back into what she is saying...the outside of her relationship was what she wanted..was perfect..was the rainbow...but in reality it was tearing her apart...she crushes herself..just as the rainbow is in actuality melting.

    and this works for everyline..not just the rainbow line.
    thought that was interesting.
    Flag ce3amoon October 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with dstar. It is a break up. Obviously, he was a bad natured man with not the same intentions as her in the relationship, and he has gotten over her quite easily, while she still feels him in many aspects of her life. He did not treat her well, "bad bad man", but she still fell for him. She is aware that he is not good for her, but cannot get over him. Her life is full of sadness, during and especially after they dated.
    Flagged hayheatheron February 15, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought the poem was recited by Bianca, with her voice pitch-shifted. But I think it could possibly be Antony as well.

    finechild, the poem is sometimes used in live versions. They have it recorded on something and they play it before and during the song.
    Flag ComparedPallidon September 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:mumbles, it does sound like him now that you say that...
    Flag dustybreezeon July 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:When I read the lyrics I thought of falling unhealthily in a superficial sense of love with a near-stranger only t crush yourself in the process. Maybe I am crazy.
    Flag dstaron April 23, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:err the person reading the poem... is it my mind being a bit funky or is possible that its antony from antony and the johnsons reading it? i always thought it was the same person who sings in beautiful boys...
    Flag mumbleson November 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i think it's "june faded into blooms, september's moon waned and grew"
    Flag celeste corrinneon November 14, 2007   Link

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