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11-26-2007, 03:29 PM
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Psychédélices
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Where is, where is the man That's the question that ask Where is, where is the soul Who invented the code Before you so many others have seeked To touch the sky Even artificial Gifted can fly The bird is thilled of your jelousy Close the shutters You could take him with you Bitter is the life that surrounds you Around you the love Has the fear of emptyness Psychédélices The helix slides away You soak up the calyx Until it kills Psychédélices There's Alice To believe in the wonders After awakening Where is, where is the man Small walker of the real Where are its atoms From what the star sparks You think that your body has wings That the angel Gabriel Is there for the announcement Soft is the satin When darkness dressed in white Your lamp of Aladin Suddenly shines at five hundred thousand watts Bitter are the times that go past Oscillating around you You don't return </TD><TD VALIGN="top"> D'où est d'où vient l'homme C'est la question qui nous taraude D'où est d'où est l'âme Qui donc a inventé le code Avant toi tant d'autres ont cherché A le toucher le ciel Même artificiel Doué pour voler L'oiseau excite ta jalousie Ferme les volets Tu pourrais te prendre pour lui Acide est la vie qui t'entoure Autour de toi l'amour A si peur du vide Psychédélices L'hélice s'éclipse Tu bois le calice Jusqu'à l'hallali Psychédélices Il n'y a qu'Alice Pour croire aux marveilles Après le réveil D'où est d'où vient l'homme Petit marcheur dans le réel D'où sont ses atomes De quelle étoile quelle étincelle Tu crois que ton corps a des ailes Que l'ange Gabriel Est là pour l'annonce Doux est le satin Quand la nuit noire s'habille de white Ta lampe d'Aladin Soudain brille de cinq cent mille watts Acide est le temps qui s'en va Vacille autour de toi Tu n'en reviens pas </TD></TABLE> Last edited by garçoncanadien; 12-09-2007 at 11:02 AM.. 
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12-03-2007, 01:02 PM
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thanks RMJ
although i didn't understand a word
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* Mr.atra201's myspace ****************************  **************************** "Such a shame to believe in escape A life on every face And that's a change, till I'm finally left with an eight Tell me to react, I just stare Maybe I don't know if I should change A feeling that we share... It's a shame (Such a shame) Number me with rage, it's a shame (Such a shame) Number me in haste, it's a shame This eagerness to change It's a shame..."
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12-05-2007, 05:38 AM
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hmm...very interesting song. i just read translation of this song for the first time. anyone else think this song is very "mylene-ish" in lyrics and mood? it has that dark, morbid, and mysterious tone. i am looking at the lyrics and i can totally imagine mylene singing this song...
anyways what's with the french singers and angel gabriel? is it their official angel or something? i've heard it in mylene's music and of course najoua's.
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12-05-2007, 06:57 AM
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hi
actually it's more like: "where does the man come?", "homme" is used as "human being" not "man" "d'où est" and "d'où vient" are translated the same way in english but the meaning is a little different in french it's something like :where is he located? where does he comes from? from an original place to a destination "Close the shutters" is a metaphore for "close your eyes" cheers Last edited by ajaccio corsica; 12-05-2007 at 07:02 AM..
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06-13-2008, 09:21 PM
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It's a pity that this song isn't so much discussed than ofters though there is definitly a lot of myterious and unclear things in it.
If RMJ should read this, why did you translated "l'halali" with "it kills"? It is just a term which describes a cry of hunt, called "halali" or in English "mort". Furthermore I would translate "Tu pourrais te pendre pour lie" with "You could think that you are he (the bird)" because of the allusion to the trips of drugs in this songs which is there definitely, e.g. in the same strophe with "The bird is thilled of your jelousy" and the dangerous to jump out of the window to fly like a bird.
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06-13-2008, 09:46 PM
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06-13-2008, 10:01 PM
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The title Psychédelices is actually a pseudo-combination of two words and meanings. It does not mean Psychedelic, or so I hear. It is, in my study, a combination of Psyché, meant to reflect on the mellow and trance, almost trip-out part of the album, and Delices, the poppy, fun, and cheery side of the album. Much like her album cover to show two women representing maturity and mischief.
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"I will write Peace on your wings, and you will fly all over the world."
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06-13-2008, 10:29 PM
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I've heard the translated meaning is psychedelights. Either way, it still refers to psychedelics in one way or another. It just doesn't seem like too much of a coincidence that the song subtly refers to drugs, especially when the album has a big retro feel to a lot of the songs.
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06-13-2008, 10:46 PM
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Sometimes I read the translations at the link below, just for another interpretation. I'm not saying they are any closer to being right than any other translations, but I like to at least consider all the options when I'm trying to sort them out for myself.
http://alizee-reflections.net/
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06-13-2008, 11:08 PM
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 which I've made for me in my head.  From where is, from where comes the human? This is the question we ask From where is, from where is the soul? So who has invited the code? With code is meant the basic of live, so DNA. Because of the existing of these code it's probably that there is someone who have it invited. This is also a little bit aimed to the religious part of this song. Before you so much others have tried To touch the sky Even artificial Maybe that describes one of the basic wishes of the humans to touch the sky like in the old mythology (e.g. Daedalus and Icarus, you know it?) or trough modern technology, so to touch the sky with airplanes. There are much examples where you can see the humans want to get this target. Able to fly The bird excites your jealousy Close the windows You could think that you are he So, like I've side at the top, that's an allusion to trips of drugs, more precisely to LSD. The human in itself will probably never get the target to touch the sky but with the illusion you get per drugs you could think that this target is accessible for you. So there is a danger to kill yourself by jumping out of the window. Acrid is the life that surrounds you Around you the love Has so much fear of emptyness I think meant is this the feeling of emptyness caused by drugs. We have one of the most important things on earth here, the love. But it has fear of emptyness. Probably because there aren't anymore persons around the human who take drugs, love needs mostly at least two persons and the love has fear to doesn't find this second person. But also it's possible that this want to say that caused by drugs your feelings are blurred. You don't represent yourself anymore but that, what the druges have done with you. So you represent a human being without any feelings and the love has fear of emptyness at you. But don't forgot, it's just speculation. Psychédélices The helix disappears You drink of the calyx Until the mort So, that's really interesting and I can say a lot about it. At first, "Psychédélices" isn't a selected term in French speak, so there is a big place for interprating it but bearing in mind that there are some signs that the song is about drugs that probably means psychedelic drugs. The word "helix" is a link to the basic code of living, you remember? The two following lines are very interesting and also not translatable if you want to preserve the expressiveness of it. We have to take a look to the original text. "Tu bois le calice jusqu'à l'hallali". There is a phrase in the French language which sounds very close to that, even "boire le calice jusqu'à la lie", so it is a play with the sounds. This phrase means "to drain the cup to the dregs", so it means suffering a long hurt. So probably it is changed with "hallali" because the hero of the story thinks he is totally intransparent. I told you the "hallali" is mort, so a call of hunt. He's ready to go until the end, so the "hallali" is the beginning of the death, of the end. Psychédélices There is just Alice To believe in miracles After the awakening So I don't really have a clou what this want to say. But I think there's a link between all the topic of the songs. The miracles, which have the character of some religious but also of some abstract, some mysterious, a sense you've just by taking drugs. There is just Alice (That's close to "Alizée", isn't it?) to believe in miracles ALSO after the awakening, the illusion caused by drugs. I hope Alizée doesn't want to say that she self is taking drugs. From where is, from where comes the human? Little walker in the reality From where are his atoms? From which star, which spark? Here we have again this question of the beginning. From where are his atoms. I mean, that is another suppostion. It comes from some star or something like that. But I think it's interesting that we have still this feeling of a sky, of a universe in the whole text. And actually the topics religion and drugs aren't that far away from each other in this song, because both have this sky, this infinity in itself. You think that your body has wings That the archangel Gabriel Is there for the announcement If you didn't believed that this songs handles also with religion a bit, not lather than yet you must get that it has. The angel Gabriel is the envoy of god. Maybe the announcement has to do with the end of all, with the apocalypse. Maybe with something other, but I like this way of thinking. But in any case that shows that there is an important announcement, that something will be different after it. You think Gabriel is there and has to say something. This delusions of grandeur could be naturally refered to the drugs theory.  And we have this illusion of being able to fly in this strophe also. It describes that yourself have wings like an angel. You are an angel and you are important, that is the strange sense of his own caused by drugs I describes further up. EDIT: The day before yesterday I got that the angel Gabriel is the angel of death in the Jewry. I think that's interesting because so the hero of the story thinks that the angel of the death is coming, it's another link to his impression that he'll die. (Addition) Soft is the satin If the dark night wraps itself in white Your lamp of Aladin Suddenly glares with five hundred thousand watts Here we have also a description of a "comic star" like in the refrain, namely Aladin (and Alice at the refrain). Also I think we have it to do with extreme hyperbols and illusions. One thing, but probably it's just luck, I find interesting is the fact that we have it to do here with satin like in Fifty Sixty (Velvet, although there "velvet" isn't meant in this way, but maybe it isn't here as well...). Acrid is the past time It glints around you You doesn't come back Why the past time is acrid? Which time is meant? The time where the hero of the story doesn't take drugs? Or the past time where he alredy did? It isn't clear, so this strophe is very fuzzy. But the hero doesn't come back. If he died or not, he won't be the person he was. Psychédélices Délisoleil You drink of the calyx Until the mort Psychédélices There is just Alice To believe in miracles After the awakening So just the refrain again. We have a play with the words here, namely at "Délisolei" which is consisting of "Délice" (pleasure) and "Soleil" (sun), so it means something like "pleasure of the sun". And that means that also at the end of the song we have a link to the imagination of a universe, we started with the sky, than there were some stars and at the end we went to the center of our sun system, the sun. Ehh, actually I didn't wanted to talk so much, but ok. Maybe somebody will find it interesting. I just can say that the most of it is just interpration. Some things are facts, the code as a synonym for the DNA, the influence of the religion in the text and the play with the sound in the refrain, that's sort of official. Please don't be angry if there are some mistakes in the text, it's late here in Germany, I'm very tired and for sure not this big English talent. One thing at the end of this long post: Make you minds about the textes! Doesn't see my post as the official way to think. Good songs are these which have more than one way of interpration. And this song definitely have many of it. It is hard to interpretate a translation, especially if we have it to do with a French text. The only way to make a nice and good interpretation is to learn French and research much things, this language is very complicated but also an instrument to create very mysterious and also nice textes, I think this one is a very good example. Last edited by Matze; 08-07-2008 at 05:26 PM..
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