song has fairly simple lyrics. The journalist Benoît Cachin said that in this song, "Farmer pays tribute to the words which have enabled her to write her songs, which are also used to express her love". About the song, the French magazine Instant-mag made the following analysis: "On an air melody and worthy flights of Boutonnat, the two voices, paradoxical but complementary, tell us the difficulty communicating and the immense power of words. Where the beautiful voice of Farmer will force up to the break, that of Seal evokes a quiet and sensual strength". One of the verses of "Les Mots" ("And to lives that stoop to notice mine", sung by Seal) repeated the first verse of Farmer's song "Nous souviendrons-nous" ("Aux vies qui s'abaissent à voir la mienne") which is on her third studio album L'Autre.... The works of Emily Dickinson was also a source of inspiration for the song. Indeed, the phrase "I will tell you how the sun rose", sung by Seal, is the title of her poem No. 318. Music video Production and plot The music video was filmed on 8 and 9 October and was directed by Laurent Boutonnat, Farmer's songwriting partner. It was a return by Boutonnat as Farmer's film director as her last video, "Beyond My Control", was directed by him in 1992. The screenplay was written by Boutonnat and Farmer, and it was a Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production. Shot over two days, it cost about 100,000 euros and it was the first time that Boutonnat used special effects in a Farmer video. The two singers did not meet to shoot the video. According to some sources, because of the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks, Seal refused to take a plane to France. However, Seal told a French magazine that the true reason is that their schedules clashed. The images in which he appears were filmed separately in Los Angeles, while Farmer recorded her scenes at Arpajon Studios in Paris. When, in the video, a man is on the raft with Farmer, it is a body double. Seal said that Farmer had suffered from the very cold water used during the video's shooting. The sea was created in a studio in a large pool, using a machine for waves, rain and lightning. Nearly 50 technicians were involved. The video was first broadcast on M6 on 7 November 2001. There were two