In June 2006, a rumour was launched that Mylène Farmer would record a duet with an international star. The name of moby was suggested because a possible collaboration with Mylène Farmer had been mentioned in the past by moby himself. In late August, the purchase order and moby's official website indicated that the name of the song was "Slipping Away (Crier la vie)".

Produced and remixed by MHC in London, this dance version of "Slipping Away" adds French lyrics. On his blog on 9 September 2006, then in the edition of the 16 December 2006 of French newspaper Le Parisien, Moby stated that Farmer came to his restaurant Teany in New York, told him to record a duet version of "Slipping Away", as she liked this song from Moby's last album then, his best of. He explained that she wrote her lyrics in French and they worked together at a distance from each other (New York and Paris).

The song was very regularly aired by all French radio stations, including Fun Radio which aired it several times every day. As the song was very successful, new remixes were made and a second CD maxi and vinyl were released on November 15.

Farmer's 2008 album Point de Suture contains another duet with Moby called "Looking for My Name", which was recorded just after "Slipping Away (Crier la vie).

Then in December 2010 Farmer released her eighth studio album "Bleu Noir" of which moby wrote and composed seven of the twelve tracks therein. The second single off "Bleu Noir" was the moby written track of the same name which is comparable to his concurrent single "The Day" in composition.

Paroles/Lyrics - Slipping Away (Crier La Vie)

All that we needed, was right
Les ombres ce soir nous menacent

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good, meme si tout va si mal
Femmes au soleil quand la nuit nous accable
Oh, pour un jour croire aux dieux croire aux fables

Focus on everything better today
Crier la vie quand tout autour se tais
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away

All that we needed, tonight
Are people who love us, and lie
Je sais les douleurs et les doutes
Oh, partir et ce qu'on redoute
Oup siiiii

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good, meme si tout va si mal
Voir le soleil quand la nuit nous accable
Oh, pour un jour croire en dieu croire aux fables

Focus on everything better today
Crier la vie quand tout autour se taire
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away

so long

Mais l'ombre...

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good, meme si tout va si mal
Voir le soleil quand la nuit nous accable
Oh, pour un jour croire en dieu croire aux fables

Focus on everything better today
Crier la vie quand tout autour se taire
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away

Hold on to people
Hold on to people they're slipping away...

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