Check out Coeur de Pirate’s Beatrice Martin play her poignant song, Place de la République, on CBC’s Studio Q last week. According to Martin, Place de la République is the centerpiece of her most recent album, “Blonde.” You don’t need to speak la langue to know and feel this one (though the loose translation–lost in translation?–can be found way below).  You can also check her sing Golden Baby and an interview with Martin at Studio Q after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUkQXqicvHQ&feature=uploademail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0c8GIoHvH0&feature=relmfu

Place de la République:

“We met in the time when we would please
the demands we created but we got lost in them
You’re only a few kilometers away
And our hearts, our hearts have stayed in this sea
I ran along the Seine
Hoping to find you, you serene soul
I ran without knowing how
or why we get carried away
We only knew each other for a moment

And I don’t know if you’re worth it anymore
It’s rather hard to be sure
And when you are in Vincennes
That evening, don’t forget me
I will wait for you long enough to say
that I wanted to take the greatest risk
An evening that made me so sad
An evening at Republique Square

And as you can see it’s the end
I must cross the ocean tomorrow morning
From your arms I will slide out ever so gently
And it’s reality that awaits me
I know your heart is already inhabited
by one or more girls that have marked you
I’m less strong than the other
But I hope strongly that you miss me
That I stand out so much

And I don’t know if you’re worth it anymore
It’s rather hard to be sure
And when you are in Vincennes
That evening, don’t forget me
I will wait for you long enough to say
that I wanted to take the greatest risk
An evening that made me so sad
An evening at Republique Square”