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Old 12-14-2008, 07:43 AM
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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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