| Tu t'laisses aller | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Charles Aznavour |
| Album: | Je m'voyais déjà |
| B-Side: | J'ai perdu la tête |
| Released: | 1960 |
| Genre: | Chanson |
| Length: | 3:43 |
| Label: | Barclay Records |
"Tu t'laisses aller" (English: "You Let Yourself Go") is a song written in 1960 by Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour.
For the first time it was released as a single in 1960 by Barclay Records (with "J'ai perdu la tête" on the B-side). In 1974 a new edition was re-released as a single.
The husband drinks alcohol to have the strength to tell his wife everything he thinks about her. He says the worst possible things to her,[1] but then he adds, that a little effort and a smiling face, and things could be just as before. In the end he calls her: "Come close to me. Let yourself go".[2]
It was a no. 1 hit in France in 1960, a best-selling record in Belgium in 1960,[3] and returned to the charts in 1962.[4]
In Jean-Luc Godard's film A Woman Is a Woman, the song plays on a jukebox during a tense encounter between Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
In 1995 Aznavour recorded a version of "Tu t'laisses aller" in duet with Liza Minnelli .