Serge Gainsbourg promo video of 'Intoxicated Man'. From his 'N° 4' album of 1962, it's in a cool jazz style with Hammond organ, double bass and drums. Filmed in Liege at the Palais des Congrés in February 1964. The apt title was later used for Gainsbourg compilations and one of the albums of his covers by Mick Harvey of The Bad Seeds. Lyrics in English & French are below. A video for his Latin paean to tobacco, 'Les Cigarillos', was filmed on the same day. It's here:
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Intoxicated Man (English lyrics)

I drink
In a too strong dose
I see
Pink elephants
Spiders on the shirt
Of my tuxedo
Bats on the ceiling
In the living
Room
Hey you
Tell me something
You are there
Like pink marble
As icy as the shirt
Of my tuxedo
As pale as the ceiling
In the living
Room
Love
Doesn't really mean much to me anymore
Still
These spiders on the shirt
Of my tuxedo
These bats on the ceiling
In the living
Room
Hey you
Tell me something
You are there
Like pink marble
As icy as the shirt
Of my tuxedo
As pale as the ceiling
In the living
Room

Intoxicated man (Lyrics Francaise)

Je bois
a trop forte dose
Je vois
des éléphants roses,
Des araignées
sur le plastron de mon smoking,
Des chauves-souris
au plafond du livingroom

Et toi
Dis-moi quelque chose
Tu es là
Comme un marbre rose,
Aussi glacé que
le plastron de mon smoking,
Aussi pâle
que le plafond du livingroom

L'amour
Ne m'dit plus grand chose
Toujours
Ces araignées sur le plastron
D'mon smoking
Ces chauves-souris au plafond
Du livingroom

Et toi
Dis-moi quelque chose
Tu es là
Comme un marbre rose,
Aussi glacé que
le plastron de mon smoking,
Aussi pâle
que le plafond du livingroom

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