Désert (song)

Désert” is Émilie Simon's debut single, released in October 2002. The song was a huge success both critically and commercially in her homeland. In the United States, a single for the English version was released in late 2006.

Music video

The music video features Émilie Simon sitting on a bed under a lamp. She then pulls out long vines and flowers from a cut in her skin. In the end, a stranger sews back her skin with a needle and a thread. Same music videos were shot for both versions, French and English.

It was directed by Philippe André and produced by Wanda.

Tracklist

CD Single

  • "Désert" (French version)
  • "Desert" (English version)
  • CD Maxi-Single

  • "Desert" (English version)
  • "Desert (Avril puzzle mix)"
  • "Desert (Leila remix)"
  • "Désert" (French version)
  • "Désert (Thievery Corporation remix)"
  • Notes

  • Philippe André official website.
  • Desert music video at BEAM.TV.
  • Desert Song

    "Desert Song" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their 1993 rarities and 'B-sides' album Retro Active. This song was an outtake from the songwriting sessions that produced 1987's Hysteria. Self-produced, it became one of the last songs to be released by Def Leppard bearing the songwriting and guitar-playing of Steve Clark, who died on 8 January 1991. It was a hit on U.S. rock radio, reaching number twelve on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was recorded as an instrumental for their album Hysteria (1987) but left off the album and was largely forgotten until the band decided to commit the song for Retro Active. On a day off during their 7 Day Weekend Tour, Elliott composed lyrics whilst listening to the track. Elliott assembled the band and remains the only Def Leppard song to feature both Clark's guitar playing and Clark's successor Vivian Campbell on background vocals, although Campbell's contributions are uncredited in the Retro Active liner notes.

    Lyrically the song is about Mick Ronson who was dying of cancer at the time. It told the story of a man facing death alone.

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    Desert Song

    by: My Chemical Romance

    we hold in our hearts,
    the sword and the faith
    swelled up from the rainclouds
    move like a wraith
    well after all, we'll lie another day
    and through it, all we'll find some other way
    to carry on
    through cardilage and fluid,
    and did you come
    to stare or wash away the blood
    well tonight
    well tonight will it ever come?
    spend the rest of your days
    rockin' out, just for the dead
    well tonight, will it ever come?
    i can see you awake anytime, in my head
    did we all fall down?
    did we all fall down?
    did we all fall down?
    did we all fall down?
    from the lights to the pavement
    from the van to the floor
    from backstage to the doctor
    from the earth to the morgue
    morgue, morgue, morgue
    well tonight will it ever come?
    spend the rest of your days
    rockin' out just for the dead
    well tonight, will it ever come
    i can see you awake anytime,
    in my head
    all fall down




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