Thursday, January 31, 2013

English III 1/31: "Sympathetique" by Pink Martini


Today we are going to be listening to a French song that has the buzz and scent of the Paris nightlife all draped over it and intertwined with it. It is a short song that seems to linger in a room- not as a sound, but as a weight... faint and hazy like a late night memory. If the song were a walk around the block, it would be a slow and slouchy one... but one filled with a dizzy vertiginous confidence. ENJOY! (lyrics from http://microporetape.blogspot.com/)

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In French:

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage
Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre
Les chasseurs à ma porte
Comme les petits soldats
Qui veulent me prendre

Je ne veux pas travailler
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
Et puis je fume

Déjà j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour
Un million de roses n'embaumerait pas autant
Maintenant une seule fleur dans mes entourages
Me rend malade

Je ne veux pas travailler
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
Et puis je fume

Je ne suis pas fière de ça
Vie qui veut me tuer
C'est magnifique être sympathique
Mais je ne le connais jamais

Je ne veux pas travailler
Non
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
Et puis je fume

Je ne suis pas fière de ça
Vie qui veut me tuer
C'est magnifique être sympathique
Mais je ne le connais jamais

Je ne veux pas travailler
Non
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
Et puis je fume
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English Translation:

My room has a shape of a cage
The sun passes its arm by the window
Hunters at my door
Like little soldiers
Who want to take me

I don't want to work
I don't want to lunch
I want only to forget
And then I smoke

Already I knew the perfume of love
A million roses don't embalm as much
Now only one flower in my entourages
Make me sick

I don't want to work
I don't want to lunch
I want only to forget
And then I smoke

I am not proud of that
Life which wants to kill me
It is splendid to be cool
But I never knew it

I don't want to work
No
I don't want to lunch
I want only to forget
And then I smoke

I am not proud of that
Life which wants to kill me
It is splendid to be cool
But I never knew it

I don't want to work
No
I don't want to lunch
I want only to forget
And then I smoke

WORDS OF THE DAY
9. EDIFICE-A building
10. COGITATE-To think over carefully
11. fastidious – careful with details
12. eclectic – selecting from various sources

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