12-14-2008, 07:43 AM
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Lonely List d'après Roman
Well, here's my cleaned up and I think improved translation. Yes, it really is sad and it looks like Alizée knows how we feel after all, especially now a year later.
"Lonely List"
Quand je suis triste
Je fais n'importe quoi
Je suis une actriste
Quelques fois
Quelques cicatristes
Sur ma peau
Brouillent les pistes
Jusqu'au cerveau
Lonely list
Mon bébé blue
Lonely list
Ton visage est flou
Je suis une ac-triste
Et je joue
Des rôles de triste
Des rôles de fou
J'ne suis pas soliste
J'ai besoin de toi
Ni même polémiste,
D'accord avec toi
Lonely list,
Mon bébé blue
Lonely list,
Ton visage est flou
Sur ma lonely list,
Toi tu es le seul inscrit
Mais s'il tombait
Quelques gouttes de pluie
Sur mon carnet noire
De moleskine
Ton nom serait à
Jamais en ruine
Lonely list
Serait dissout
Lonely list
Mon bébé blue
Lonely list
Serait dissout
Lonely list
Mon bébé blue
Ma lonely, ma lonely list
Quelques tours de pistes, et puis c'est tout...
Ma lonely, ma lonely list
Quelques tours de pistes, et puis c'est tout...
Ma lonely, ma lonely list
Quelques tours de pistes, et puis c'est tout...
Ma lonely, ma lonely list
When I'm sad,
I behave randomly *1
I am an actress *2
sometimes
Some scars *2
On my skin
Obscure tracks
To the brain
Lonely list,
my baby blue
Lonely list,
your face is a blur *3
I'm an actress
And I act
Roles of sadness
Roles of a fool
I'm not a soloist
I need you
Not even a polemist, *4
Agrees with you
Lonely list,
My baby blue
Lonely list,
Your face is a blur
On my lonely list,
You are the only one listed
But if fell
A few drops of rain
On my black book
Of Moleskine, *5
Your name would be
Forever ruined
Lonely list
would be dissolved
Lonely list
my baby blue
Lonely list
would be dissolved
Lonely list
my baby blue
My lonely, my lonely list
A few laps, and then that's all...
My lonely, my lonely list
A few laps, and then that's all...
My lonely, my lonely list
A few laps, and then that's all...
My lonely, my lonely list
*1 It's a common French phrase meaning: «usually it is something we say when you are doing things wrong and when it is starting to annoy you like you are trying to do something and you fail, try again, fail again...and you are getting more and more on edge then you say "oh je fais n'importe quoi !" or "je fais vraiment n'importe quoi !"» http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=58133
*2 There's a play on words to put the word triste (sad) into
actrice (actress) -> ac-triste
cicatrices (scars) -> cica-tristes
*3 I think this means as in one's mind the image is unclear, like she's trying to envision someone and it's difficult.
*4 polemist = one skilled in or given to polemics: that is aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another, a controversialist
I think that means would not argue with her.
*5 Brand of one specific kind of notebook. http://www.moleskine.com/eng/default.htm
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Merci Fanny
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