Details

• Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Length: 4:52
• Released: 5:55 (album) (28 August 2006)

Credits

• Lyrics: Jarvis Cocker, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel
• Music: Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel

• Producer: Nigel Godrich

• Charlotte Gainsbourg: vocals
• Nicolas Godin: bass, guitar (acoustic & 12 string), glockenspiel
• Jean-Benoît Dunckel: piano
• Tony Allen: drums

Lyrics

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Awake with open eyes
A drift upon the night
And miles away from land

Five fifty-five
Five fifty-five

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Ante meridiem
Too late to end it now
Too early to start again

Five fifty-five
Five fifty-five

Soon the morning will arrive
Can I begin another day
Whilst this old day is still alive
Refusing to be put away

Five fifty-five
No sleep tonight
Five fifty-five

Like a beast awaits its faith
Laid here with time to kill
The very dead of night
Where time and space stand still

Five fifty-five
No sleep tonight
Five fifty-five

A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Nothing will ever change
On the altar of my thought
I sacrifice myself again and again and again

Five fifty-five
And again and again...
Five fifty-five
...and again and again and again and again...

Related pages

• A list of Jarvis' collaborations and side projects