La fin du monde

by BILLIE BIRD

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In this moving and powerful new song, Billie Bird evokes her relationship with her mother, which was both close and complex, and then her death, which she experienced as "the end of the world". She sings with a heightened sensitivity about the impossibility of saying what one would have wanted in these inevitable endings, when the essential is bypassed and modesty prevails, leaving room for regrets. This cathartic song is a sweet way to make peace with oneself. About her song, she says, "Every ending brings a lot of knowledge. With her departure, I understood in my body, that endings are inescapable, and that sadness is uncontrollable, necessary, liberating, ugly & beautiful."

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J’ai déjà lu quelque part
Que le silence vaut parfois
Bien mieux que les mots

Je la regarde une dernière fois
Ongles brillants et vernis fait
Tirer sur son mégot

On parle de tout sauf de l’essentiel
On n’arrive même pas à se dire
Que l’on se manque 
Que ce n’est plus pareil

On parle de tout sauf de l’essentiel

C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
J’entends les souffles la moindre respiration
C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
Comme un séisme, une secousse 
Et la détonation

Je me souviens de la tendresse
Pas de grandes déclarations
Ni de politesses

J’aurai tout fait pour te mettre à l’abri

C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
J’entends les souffles la moindre respiration
C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
Comme un séisme, une secousse

C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
J’entends les souffles la moindre respiration
C’était un peu comme la fin du monde
Comme un séisme, une secousse
 Et la détonation

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released September 9, 2022

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BILLIE BIRD Lausanne, Switzerland

shows

May 26

Wohngemeinschaft

Cologne, Germany
May 28

Bar Bobu

Berlin, Germany
May 29

Café Lux

Leipzig, Germany
Jul 17

Wasserschloss Sommergarten

Brugg, Switzerland
Jul 21

Seebad Enge

Zürich, Switzerland
Sep 12

L'archipel - Salle 1 (bleue)

Paris, France
Oct 2

Tonfink

Lübeck, Germany
Oct 4

Duval

Werder, Germany

discography

Incendies

Mar 2023
Indolentia

Jan 2023
Ton venin

Nov 2022
La fin du monde

Sep 2022
Électrique

May 2022
Sans Contrefaçon

Nov 2019
Les Déferlantes

Nov 2018
La Nuit

Mar 2018

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