Discover the story of the song > Black Trombone – Serge Gainsbourg

- The singer talks about a black trombone
- The trombone is monotone, or has only one tone
- The trombone is pretty/pleasant
- It turns like a gramophone
- And it drowns out the singer's boredom.


- The singer then says that the black trombone is indigenous to the night, and that God forgive the pretty girl who sings in his bed.


- In the third verse, the singer describes how the black trombone takes hold of him and that he gives up fighting it.


- In the fourth verse, the singer accepts that the black trombone is part of his life now and that it represents the autumn of his life.