The Italian-born model-turned-singer's third album contains her own rendition of Bob Dylan's dewy-eyed ballad You Belong To Me, with blatant references to exotic destinations she and the French President visited last year during their lightning romance.

"See the pyramids along the Nile... Just remember darling, all the while, you belong to me," she croons in the Dylan song.

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arla Bruni-Sarkozy refers to the couple's foreign trips in her cover of Bob Dylan's 'You Belong to Me'


Egypt was the couple's first foreign destination last December, where they were photographed smooching and strolling hand in hand by the edge of the desert sands.

The President proposed fortune in Egypt on Christmas Day, offering her a pink heart-shaped diamond Dior engagement ring. They were married in Paris on Feb 2, just three months after first meeting.

"See the market place in old Algiers... Just remember till your dream appears, You belong to me," the Dylan lyrics go on.

Commentators suggest this refers to the President's trip to Algeria, when he left his fiancee alone back in Paris amid controversy over their public displays of affection.

The final line includes the words, "Fly the ocean in a silver plane... Just remember till you're home again... You belong to me'.

This is said to be a parallel with Mr Sarkozy's frequent overseas trips on the presidential jet.

French daily France-Soir, one of the first to hear Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's version of the track, said: "Bruni is an intelligent woman and will well aware of all the references to her own life and her romance with the president.

"She is far too clever for this to be a coincidence."

Her agent Bertrand de Labbey said "95 per cent" of the tracks on the album were either written or chosen before she met the president.

Among the 14 tracks is a song called Ma Came (My Junk) - a reference to drugs that is in fact a love song.

Written more than two years ago, it is nevertheless dedicated to her husband and likens her man to a soft drug: "My guy, I roll him up and smoke him," she sings. The Elysée is reportedly uncomfortable with the line.

The album also includes an Italian ballad and several of her own brooding poems set to music. One is based on controversial French author Michel Houellebecq's novel, La Possibilité d'une Ile (The Possibility of an Island).

Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy, 40, composed the music and wrote the lyrics to most of the songs on the album that is due out in France, Britain, Germany and Italy on July 21.

"It is now almost complete. It's just a matter of perfecting it but, as she is a perfectionist, it will take a little more time," said Mr Labbey.

Her first album, Quelqu'un M'a Dit (Someone Told Me) sold 1.2 million copies in France and 800,000 abroad after release 2002.

But No Promises - her second released early last year featuring English poems set to music - was less successful with only 80,000 copies sold.