Jarvis: The Duelist (song)

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Details

  • Artist: Air
  • Length: 4:40
  • Released: Pocket Symphony (album) (5 March 2007) - download only bonus track

Credits

Lyrics

JC = Jarvis Cocker
CG = Charlotte Gainsbourg
The other lines are sung by both of them.

Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty

In the time it takes a handkerchief to fall to the ground
One of our lives will be over

JC: Brocade waistcoast catches glints of morning light
(?), swathed in bottle green memories

We've travelled from station to station
We're now approaching our final destination

The only way to wake you was to slap your face
So stand up straight and let me take one final taste of you

CG: Before we walk the agreed number of paces
CG: And turn to face our fate
CG: The coup de grĂ¢ce delivered so delicately
CG: You always had such exquisite taste

CG: Morning sky stretched tight as a drum
CG: Tension released in an instant

JC: Brocade waistcoat flecked with blood in the golden light
You were dead before you even hit the ground

We've travelled from station to station
Now we've reached our final destination

Watch all trace of colour draining from your face
Stood to take my final taste, one final taste of you

JC: And ice crystals always have six points
JC: Though every one's unique
CG: They melt on the tongue and no-one's ever counted them all
CG: But you've tried

CG: You
JC: You, so cool and calculating
JC: A real cold fish

JC: So measure this
So measure this

One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen

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