A keresés eredménye

Music

Versions: #1
Let's leave in this unusual world
The noise of mechanical excavators
Which build what?
Let's silence the melancholics
With our own rhythmic and our joy
 
Music
And which everyone starts to sing
And let everyone get carried away
Close to each other, tight
Close to each other, entwined
{Close to each other}
 
Music
Let the orchestras begin to play
That our memory starts to dream
And let our thoughts travel
Let go of our bodies and float
 
{Close to each other}
 
Music
We're too weak to kill each other
We're too alone to hate each other
We're not so well to add more
We're too nothing to tear each other apart
{Each other}
 
Music
Lay our guns at our feet
Let us send our armies home
Let's throw down our shields
Let's snap our fingers, beat time with foot
{One two three four}
 
Music
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet music
Hmmm
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet music
Hmmm ...
 

The Shannon's girl

The Shannon's girl lives at the end of a world
Where nothing forgives disappointed loves
And it's raining, it's raining on the grass of Ireland
And it's raining, it's raining on the lawn of Ireland
And she sings to those who smile at her
 
{Refrain:}
Don't make fun of a girl who loves you
Don't make fun of a girl who gives her heart
Don't make fun of a girl that hopes
Before time abandons her
Like a flower she gives everything
Keeping on her mad hopes
Don't make fun of a girl who gives all
 
The Shannon's girl expects everything from a promise
Made in front of the fire an evening of intoxication
And it's raining, it's raining on the secret of Ireland
And it rains, it rains on tales and legends
And she sings to those who smile at her
 
{To the refrain, x2}
Don't make fun of a girl who gives all
 

You Don't Have the Right

You don't have the right
To smile at me or open your arms to me
Because the love inside you is dead
What's the point in this charade?
 
I can't accept, you see,
Hearing you say the words
That you're saying to others
I've opened my eyes for good
 
Now
I hate you
And yet
I used to love you
 
For so long
You wanted me to follow you blindly
By forbidding me too many things
For no reason, like a child
 
You really thought
That I would just come crying
That I wouldn't dare show my teeth
You gave me the chance to
 
Know well
That I am
Finally free
From my life
 
And to prove to you
That you don't exist in my thoughts any longer
I'm going to open the door for you and banish you
Like you would for a demon
 

I have a friend in Munich

I have a friend in Munich, in Munich
Something is going on with them
He believes, he is getting big
In the thousand meter dash, Oh dear!
 
He listens with his rounds
by seconds
not up
 
He doesn't drink anymore
He doesn't smoke anymore
An even love, ya, love is hard for him
 
For big games
He does too much
Because at any cost,
He wants to win the gold
 
And I come for a visit to Munich, to Munich
I must go to the sports arena
Only to see him weary
in his long distance run, oh dear
 
He listens with his rounds
by seconds
not up
 
And every word
turns to sport
If this continues
Then I am running away!
 
No, I remain here
rather remain here
My goal is only a small ring of gold from you
 
I have a friend in Munich, in Munich
And I keep him
He thinks at every turn
Not me at the moment, Oh dear!
 
I even run out of love, out of love
out of love, Oh dear!
I even run out of love, out of love
with him
 

The storm

When we left the town
In your car
To go hunting for quails
The sky was blue
We picnicked on
a hay stack
 
When we drove on
the first drops
on the windows fell
as soon as we arrived
 
The storm dropped all of the rain from the sky onto us
The storm took us by surprise, but waiting for the rainbow,
I took shelter under your large oilskin (raincoat)
Under your oilskin you held me tight
 
On the following morning
your gun in hand
you hid in the ferns
I and your old black dog
were carrying on our backs
your cartridge belts
 
But we came back home
as soon as it rained
Without a quail, without a duck,
under the black clouds
 
The storm dropped all of the rain from the sky onto us
The storm took us by surprise, but waiting for the rainbow,
I took shelter under your large oilskin
Under your oilskin you held me tight
 
The storm dropped all of the rain from the sky onto us
The storm took us by surprise, but waiting for the rainbow,
I took shelter under your large oilskin
Under your oilskin you held me tight
 
The storm dropped all of the rain from the sky onto us
 

Very little man

I'm Pablo's wife, I'm Nightingale's wife,
The one that sings on your balcony
That comes, that goes, that flies away
In your house it was nice, I came
If I loved you for twenty minutes, don't ask me for more,
Don't keep me here
 
Very little man
I took your heart
But I'd rather sing (tweet)
On the cherry trees
And very little man
A violin tune
Plays my four seasons
And that's my life
 
I'm Pablo's, I'm Nightingale's wife,
And you have four houses, a donkey, a carriage,
You'd like to fence me in, to keep me to yourself.
When you chase wealth, do you feel much joy?
What are you doing with life?
 
Very little man
I took your heart
But I'd rather sing
On the cherry trees
And very little man
A violin tune
Plays my four seasons
And that's my life...
 

Two Lovers Roam Europe

Two lovers roam Europe with
A suitcase and two guitars and
Wherever they stop in Europe, there
They play this song
 
And they sing: 'Oh, la-la-l'amour
The world is just full of love
You just have to learn
To see it everywhere'
 
And then all the couples come from
All the villages and all the towns and
All the many amorous couples, they
Join in this song
 
And they sing: 'Oh, la-la-l'amour
The world is just full of love
You just have to learn
To see it everywhere'
 
Two lovers roam Europe and
Everyone understands their message, because
All the people throughout Europe, they
Think, feel just like them
 
And they sing: 'Oh, la-la-l'amour
The world is just full of love
You just have to learn
To see it everywhere'
 
And they sing: 'Oh, la-la-l'amour
The world is just full of love
You just have to learn
To see it everywhere'
 

Come, I'll take you to

You who laid your eyes on me
You who talk to me to warm me up
I give you everything I have
The key to a world that doesn't exist
 
Come, I'll take you to
The place where stars meet the moon in secret
Come, I'll take you to
The place where the sun goes to rest at noon
I closed my eyes so much
I dreamt so much
That I came here
 
Come, I'll take you to
The place where rivers drink and hide
Come, I'll take you to
The place where the sad clouds go to have fun
I closed my eyes so much
I dreamt so much
That I came here
 
Further, further, further than Yanthai's bay
Further, further, further than the Coral Sea
 
Come, I'll take you
Behind the mirror, to the other side
Come, I'll take you to
the sky land, the fairy land
 
I closed my eyes so much
I dreamt so much
That I came here
 
Come, I'll take you to
Come, I'll take you to
 
I closed my eyes so much
I dreamt so much
That I came here
Further, further, further than Yanthai's bay
Further, further, further than the Coral Sea
 
Come, I'll take you to
The place where illusions become reality
Come, I'll take you
Behind the mirror, to the other side
 
[Hook x4]
I closed my eyes so much
I dreamt so much
That I came here
 
Come, I'll take you to
Come, I'll take you to
 

We warned you

We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
You warned me yeah yeah yeah but
I didn't believe you
 
Never never never again
I'll never play tricks on boys again
Never never never again
I learned from this one time
 
Because he doesn't want to see me again
Our pretty story ends
Because i wanted to have fun
I deserve it so much
 
Never never never again
I'll never play tricks on boys again
Never never never again
I learned from this one time
 
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
You warned me yeah yeah yeah but
I didn't believe you
 
Never never never again
I'll never play tricks on boys again
I loved him, loved him, loved him
All day long, it was so great
 
To see if he loved me as much as I do
Better hear it
I danced tenderly
With his best friend
 
Never never never again
I'll never do this again
I'll always remember
How sad love is
 
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
You warned me yeah yeah yeah but
I didn't believe you
 
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
You warned me yeah yeah yeah but
I didn't believe you
 
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
We warned you yeah yeah yeah yeah
You warned me yeah yeah yeah but
I didn't believe you
 

Accidents of Love

I want the lightning and the snow
Like a fire that consumes me
I want the sky and the water
To caress my body
I want everything since I have so little time
I want everything and I want it now
 
These days
There are accidents of love
These days
There are passions which end abruptly
I don’t have time to wait
I don’t have time to understand
I want happiness now
 
These days
There are setbacks along the way
These days
There are ghosts even in broad day light
I don’t have time to learn
I don’t have time to understand
I want happiness now
 
I want the green flash *
And the polar night of a hundred days **
And to feed on the world
And that it devour me in return
I want everything
Since I have so little time
I want everything and I want it now
 
These days
There are accidents of love
These days
There are passions which end abruptly
I don’t have time to wait
I don’t have time to understand
I want happiness now
 
These days
There are setbacks along the way
These days
There are ghosts even in broad day light
I don’t have time to learn
I don’t have time to understand
I want happiness now
 
I want everything since I have so little time
I want everything and I want it now
I want everything
 
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Chameleon, Chameleon

Of all the white animals
It's you who is the meanest
You make my life
A perpetual torment
 
I tell my self that you are the same
As the colors of the rainbow
And that you will never have true passion
 
You are like the sun
And you always fill me with wonder
When you go back to shinning, standing on my balcony
 
You change your love, like a song is changed
Without respecting the time or the tone
And come into my house while singing
 
Chameleon, Chameleon
My beautiful cheeks quickly turn maroon,
They turn indian-rose and even lime-green
When you slyly flee from my house
Chameleon, Chameleon
 
I tell my self that you are the same
As the colors of the rainbow
And that you will never have true passion
 
You are like the sun
And you always fill me with wonder
But I will never be able to come up with a reason
 
In lingerie or in hiding
Your housewife or courtesan
I would like, however, to be your wife
 
Chameleon, Chameleon
Your grasshopper or your hippo
You crazy blond or fatal brunette
I would like, however, to be your wife
 
Chameleon, Chameleon
 

Before You Two Start Fighting

To celebrate my twentieth birthday just right
You wanted to come here
To the place that I've often visited
With other boys
 
I'm telling you--watch out
If we walk in here,
I'll run into that boy
I used to date...
 
Before you two start fighting
I'm warning you--
Before you two start fighting
Think about it hard--
Because he's a lot bigger than you
Stay in your seat, don't go over there, don't go over there
 
Don't give him a dirty look
No--because you don't scare him
And now you're the only one
I've given my heart to
 
Before you two start fighting
I'm warning you--
Before you two start fighting
Think about it hard--
Because he's a lot bigger than you
Stay in your seat, don't go over there, don't go over there
 
I don't like the look you're giving him
I can tell that trouble is brewing
And now it's too late
To separate you two
 
Here's the fight
You were looking for
While you two fight,
I'm getting out of here
 
The winner of this battle
Should call me tomorrow
The winner of this battle
Should call me tomorrow
 
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Wax doll, rag doll

Versions: #4
I am a wax doll
A rag doll
My heart is engraved in my songs
Wax doll, rag doll
 
Am I better or worse
Than a fashion doll?
I see life in candy-pink
Wax doll, rag doll
 
My disks are a mirror
In which everyone can see me
I'm everywhere at once
Shattered in a thousand shards of voice
 
All around me I hear the laughing
Of chiffon dolls
Those who dance to my songs
Wax doll, rag doll
 
They let themselves be seduced
For any reason or no reason at all
Love isn't just in songs
Wax doll, rag doll
 
My disks are a mirror
In which everyone can see me
I'm everywhere at once
Shattered in a thousand shards of voice
 
Alone, I sometimes sigh
I say to myself 'what good is it?'
Singing about love like this
Without knowing anything about boys
 
I'm just a wax doll,
A rag doll
Under the sunshine of my blonde hair
Wax doll, rag doll
 
But one day I will live out my songs
Wax doll, rag doll
Without fearing the heat of boys
Wax doll, rag doll
 

Quit Playing Girls

Versions: #3
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
One day, it's you who will be played
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
One day, it's you who will cry
 
Yes, I've cried, but on that day
No, I won't cry anymore
No, I won't cry anymore
I'll say, 'It serves you right'
I'll say, 'That'll teach you'
I'll say, 'That'll teach you'
 
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
It will come back to bite you
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
You'll pay for it one of these days
 
You can't get away with playing
With an innocent heart
With an innocent heart
You'll know how I feel
Before too long
Before too long
 
Fortune forsakes
Those who only know
How to break hearts
You'll have no one
To console you
You had it coming to you
 
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
One day, it's you who will be played
Quit playing girls
Quit playing girls
One day, it's you who will cry
 
There'll be no one left to complain to
You'll be all alone
You'll be all alone
And then you'll remember
Everything I just said
Everything I just said
 

Go ahead and love her

Your luck has turned, your love life
changed for the better and the worse.
What you were set to get
never, never came.
 
The summer heat and winter snows
always, always went by
but I only could think
of one advice to give you
 
Love her
and keep her very close to you
Love her
and keep her cradled in your arms
 
Love is fickle, love don't come easy.
it fades and breaks, it's so fragile
Do you realize how lucky you are1
when love is around?
 
Love her
And, if she agrees, don't leave her
Love her
and let her go wherever she wants
 
Love is blue or dark, it is hesitant
It decides in a day the rest of your life
Do you realize how lucky you are
when love is around?
 
You'll experience hours of smiling and weeping
and building up memories
but when your time is up
you'll have nothing to regret.
 
The summer heat and winter snows
can go by all they want
I will never think
of another advice to give you
 
Love her
and keep her very close to you
Love her
and keep her cradled in your arms
 
Love is fickle, love don't come easy.
it fades and breaks, it's so fragile
Do you realize how lucky you are
when love is around?
 
Love her
And, if she agrees, don't leave her
Love her
and let her go wherever she wants
 
Love is blue or dark, it is hesitant
It decides in a day the rest of your life
Do you realize how lucky you are
when love is around?
 
Love her (x10)
 
Love is blue or dark, it is hesitant
It decides in a day the rest of your life
Do you realize how lucky you are
when love is around?
 

• 1. the French word order is a bit unusual, like 'do you know, when it's around, do you know how lucky you are?'

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The Rain

The newspaper reported
That the weather will change
There are black clouds in the sky
And the birds there
Won’t fly anymore
How could it be?
 
I won’t change
No, I won’t change
But if the world is crazy
I don’t care
 
CHORUS:
The rain
Don’t dampen our love when I'm happy
The rain
The rain’s no longer there if you look at me
The umbrella - throw it away
Since it’s no use now
 
…it’s no use now, it’s no use now
 
The thermometer went down
The sun was hiding
The cold has arrived, but our love
Will never get cold
And it won’t die
Do you know why?
 
I won’t change
No, I won’t change
But if the world is crazy
I don’t care
 
CHORUS
 
The rain
Don’t dampen our love when I'm happy
 

The swing isn't bad in Paris

FG: I was born there
MB: not in Memphis
FG: I'm from Paris
MB: Not a higher-up1
FG: I never knew Cab Calloway
MB: I never produced anything on Broadway
FG: I know Passy2
MB: not Albany
FG: I'm no Yankee
MB: You're a true Parisian3
FG: I'm not the jingo type4
MB: Not all is good in Ohio
 
Both: The swing isn't bad5 in Paris
Both: The swing isn't bad
Both: The swing isn't bad in Paris
Both: There's swing [there] too
(x2)
 
FG: I wanna do a show
 
MB: I'd be happy to
FG: Put something new [in it]
MB: This is all I want
FG: But I don't want to mimic Ginger Rogers
MB: Why always America first6?
FG: West Side Story
MB: is dead and gone
FG:
MB: That was nice
FG: But I want to do something really personal
MB: We'll have to work, but why not?
 
Both: The swing isn't bad in Paris
Both: The swing isn't bad
Both: The swing isn't bad in Paris
Both: There's swing [there] too
(x2)
 
MB: tapdancing is a thing of the past
Both: The Metro Goldwin Mayer is no longer the best7
 
Both: The swing isn't bad in Paris
Both: The swing isn't bad
Both: The swing isn't bad in Paris
Both: There's swing [there] too
(x2)
 
The swing isn't bad
The swing isn't bad
The swing isn't bad in Paris
There's swing [there] too
The swing isn't bad
The swing isn't bad
The swing isn't bad
There's swing [there] too
 

• 1. that could be understood as 'pas [fils/fille] de famille'(the son/daugher of a whealthy familiy) or simply '[je n'ai] pas de famille'(I've got no family)
• 2. a wealthy near suburb of Paris
• 3. 'titi' is a kind of archetype for Paris inhabitants
• 4. lit. 'I'm not all for cock-a-doodle-doos'. An allusion to the cockerel, France's national symbol, in a slightly derisive way
• 5. could be read as 'there's quite a bit of swing in Paris', but the other meaning is valid too, and easier to translate
• 6. Not exactly the current meaning. Trump was a long way from becoming president at the time
• 7. couldn't really mimic the assonance 'Mayer / meilleure'

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Love, l'amour und Liebe

they call it 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' in this world
we know that 'Love', 'l'amour' und 'Liebe' pleases everyone
it doesn't matter where you kiss each other
a kiss is an international thing
they call it 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' in this world
 
there's no evening that you can just fall asleep anymore
you only see sunshine when it rains
you can't understand yourself anymore
you get angry and ask yourself, what happened
 
they call it 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' that's for sure
you will find 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' to be so wonderful
If you started with it for once
You can't but think about it
they call it 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' in this world
 
there's no evening that you can just fall asleep anymore
you only see sunshine when it rains
you can't understand yourself anymore
you get angry and ask yourself, what happened
 
they call it 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' that's for sure
you will find 'Love', 'l'amour' and 'Liebe' to be so wonderful
so wonderful
in this world !
 
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I'm sweet as sugar

When you're small, you ain't got nothing to laugh about
Cause people think they can walk all over you
But I tell all you guys, that are mean:
Small cats have sharp claws
That's why I also don't take any shit
For I know exactly how to win in this game
 
I am sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you're a meanie
I can be a tigress
I'm sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you'll leave me
I can turn into a tiger
 
Dangers are lurking everywhere
And since a few years, i've been learning
You can't be friends with everyone
But i don't have to pour out my heart to you
It#ll always be the way it is
I wanna be happy with you for a lifetime
 
I am sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you're a meanie
I can be a tigress
I'm sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you'll leave me
I can turn into a tiger
 
I am sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you're a meanie
I can be a tigress
I'm sweet as sugar
But I warn everyone who kisses me
If you're a meanie
I can turn into a tiger
 
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For thirty centimes

he lives in the city, only minutes from here
And every day at four thirty, he drops by my place
then i go to the station, and wait for im
and i already know, it's gonna be a rad evening
 
for thirty centimes, the train's gonna bring him to me (1)
for thirty centime, my fortune's gonna arrive with him
then the two of us are dreaming, and kiss each other
we're so happy for only thirty centimes
 
then he is there, and we get so close
how you only can be when you love each other dearly
he's mine alone, and I'll be there for him alone
and our happiness only costs thirty centimes
 
if the two of us wanna go to the disco
or watch the champs-élysées at night
I walk to the station and take the train to him
and already feel, it's gonna be a great evening
 
for thirty centimes, the train's gonna bring him to me (1)
for thirty centime, my fortune's gonna arrive with him
then the two of us are dancing, and laughing at the same time
we're so happy for only thirty centimes
 
he's with me, and I'm with him
And we can understand each other without much money
Thirty centimes are buying a whole world for us
And only do, what the two of us like
 
Thirty centimes are enough for us two
For with thirty centimes we can be happy
 
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I say yes, you say no

we can never agree on anything, it's simply like that
and noone wants to give in - if I say yes, you say no
when i want to dance, you don't
If there's a move we could go to - you say yes, I say no
 
Anything that pleases you, just doesn't work for me
If I tell you 'white', then you answer 'blue'
 
we can never agree on anything, it's simply like that
but if you say 'kiss me' - I say yes and you say yes
If its worth argueing about, it makes us love even more
that's how young folks love - a kiss 'yes' - a kiss 'no'
 
Anything that pleases you, just doesn't work for me
If I tell you 'white', then you answer 'blue'
 
we can never agree on anything, it's simply like that
but if you say 'kiss me' - I say yes and you say yes
that's how young folks love - a kiss 'yes' - a kiss 'no'
 
that's how young folks love - a kiss 'yes' - a kiss 'no'
that's how young folks love - a kiss 'yes' - a kiss 'no'
 
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All for music

Their heads are full of ideas
ideas about partying
and their incomprehensible language
makes them laugh or makes them cry
 
They even forget who they are
and the unavoidable questions,
and feeling prevails over sense.
They surrender themselves in unison
 
They give all for music
and they repeat these words
disjointed and illogical
as you say magic words.
All for music
and they shake their heads
like real mechanisms
like real dynamos
 
All for music
and they clap their hands
like meek drama queens
like crazy fanatics
All for music
 
And, like bashful lovers
they forget their lives as they live
and their eyes reflect the light
like stars in the universe
 
They give all for music
and they repeat these words
disjointed and illogical
as you say magic words.
All for music
and they shake their heads
like real mechanisms
like real dynamos
All for music
and they clap their hands
like meek drama queens
like crazy fanatics
All for music
 
All for music...
 
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Miss Chang

Far away from her origins, her history,
she tries to loose her memory.
Far away from the monsoon and the black and blue sky,
in a totally different world,
uprooted by fate...
 
Miss Chang,
all she asks is
to get to understand
what she's doing there.
If you know how to be tender,
Miss Chang
gets closer to you.
Without your eyes asking,
theirs become sweeter.
 
She says in her language
the words that are said everywhere.
She calls love 'Solena'1,
but love left her stranded here2.
 
Miss Chang
Miss Chang
 
Far behind her eyes, she knows how to hide
all her joy and despair.
Far [reaching] is her incurable hope3.
Her smile is her immense strength
Her smile is her blade4
 
Miss Chang,
all she asks is
to get to understand
what she's doing there.
If you know how to be tender,
Miss Chang
gets closer to you.
Without your eyes asking,
theirs become sweeter.
She says in her language
the words that are said everywhere.
She calls love 'Solena',
but love left her stranded here.
 
Miss Chang
Miss Chang
 
If you know how to be tender,
she settles in your arms5
She shows you her room
and she whispers softly
a few words in her language
that you don't understand.
 
Miss Chang
Miss Chang
Miss Chang
 

• 1. I've always wondered what language that alludes to
• 2. assuming the correct spelling is 'l'a oubliée'. Another possible meaning would be 'l'amour, elle l'a oublié là' ('here, she forgot about love'), but that would be somewhat broken French
• 3. the poetic repetition of 'loin' prevails over syntax here
• 4. 'arme blanche' is a generic term for all kinds of bladed weapons. I suppose it's used here for the 'blanc' alluding to (white) skin color, but I can't see how to render that in English
• 5. that rather evokes a cat or a baby being craddled in someone's arms

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Turn it off and chill out

Our cars are sleeping in the street like babies
and soul music lingers on the FM
There's nothing but fog left on TV channels
There is someting between us,
something we like,
and if you mean to tell me
what your eyes mean to tell me,
please, don't wait until the end of the night.
 
Turn it off and chill out,
turn off the light and turn off the sound
Relax, turn it all off
Relax, chill out, turn it all off
Let's get back to ourselves
Turn it all off
 
The world is hanging on a thread.
Me, I'm hanging on my dream.
 
Let's remain in control of time and computers
and get back in an instant to Adam and Eve era
Turn off the dream machines
Listen to my heart speaking
If you want to hear me say
what my eyes want to say to you
please, don't wait until the end of the night
 
Turn it off and chill out,
turn off the light and turn off the sound
Relax, turn it all off
Relax, chill out, turn it all off
Let's get back to ourselves
Turn it all off
 
Relax, chill out, turn it all off
 
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Hong Kong star

You'd have wanted to play Hamlet
but the propositions you got
are big tear-jerkers and interminable soap operas.
In your star uniform, you do your shows and collect lovers
You had your eyes de-slanted1
now how could you turn them blue?
 
(chorus)
Hong Kong star, you weren't born where you wanted
You don't have the skin you'd need, the one from the real dollar country
 
Hong Kong star, you're not thankful to fate
In your phoney Las Vegas, you dream black and white dreams
 
Hong Kong star, there's a Chinese in your mirror
You're nothing but a Hong Kong star
 
You're not really 'on the way' to play with Faye Dunaway.
In your island, Hollywood is a cheap dream for young film stars
 
(chorus)
 
You're nothing but a Hong Kong star (x4)
 

• 1. I think the idea is quite clear, but though 'débrider' exists in French, it usually has a completely different meaning. Not sure the word exists in English either, btw

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How to tell him

In the middle of the crowd
on a Sunday afternoon
In the middle of the crowd
I admit it is him
 
In the middle of the crowd
of these people who smile at me
of all my enemies
I admit it is him
 
How to tell him, how to tell him
How to make him understand with a smile
How to tell him, how to tell him
 
In the middle of the crowd
On a Sunday afternoon
I feel nervous, not cool
I admit it's him
 
In the middle of the crowd
The strangers of my life
I would like him to understand
Let him take me far from here
 
How to tell him, how to tell him
How to make him understand with a smile
How to tell him, how to tell him
 
If he can wait for me, if he can wait for me
If he can reach me, let him come to me
If he can understand, if he can hear me
and joins me let him come to me
let him come to me
 
In the middle of a crowd
that he is taking may from from here
 
How to tell him, how to tell him
How to make him understand with a smile
How to tell him, how to tell him
How to make him understand with a smile
 
Yakov Ben Ionatan

Calypso

He told me looks is what it counts
And of course I haven't realized then
That he was ogling far away from my shoulder
This girl, who had made him burning on fire
And I was lacking compared to her bronzed skin
 
For calypso
Bésame mucho (Kiss me whole)
Dizziness from hot countries
He always said: 'let's go'
I'm not in the mood for this
 
Calypso
He was all the time over cloud 9
Dancing there pretty soon
Calypso, tico tico tico
Calypso
 
It's true I'm not the spangle type
Nor death who watch over us
Behind those big hats, Mexican sombreros
And I find them too sugary these syrups
Even if the sun here doesn't shine as much
 
For calypso
Bésame mucho (Kiss me a lot)
Dizziness from hot countries
He always said: 'let's go'
I'm not in the mood for this
 
Calypso
Ritmo latino
Dancing there pretty soon
Calypso, tico tico tico
Calypso
 
Everyone with their chosen heroes
Him Dario Moreno
Me Police or Toto {calypso, a retro-story)
Me Elton or Bowie
And him Luis Mariano {calypso, past love}
Me Janis or Carly
And him Gloria Lasso {calypso}
 
Calypso
He isn't the man that I need
Everyone with their chosen heroes
Me Police or Toto
Him Dario Moreno {calypso, amor latino}
 
Adiós Paco (Bye)
Hasta luego (See you soon)
 

I Need love

His eyes crossed my eyes
Like a laser ray
I've been projected somewhere
Else than on the Earth
Help
I need love
Help
I need love
 
With him I feel like dancing
Barefoot in the light
I feel like walking on the sea
Planing in the air
Help
I need love
Help
I need love
 
Like the Earth needs the Sun
(I need love)
 
Like the stars need the stars
(I need love)
Like the sky needs the sea
(I need love)
Like the summer needs the winter
(I need love)
I need love (x7)
 
As i need music
As I need light
As i need water
As i need air
Just a little love
I need love
Just a little love
I need love
Like the bird needs wings to fly
(I need love)
Like the moon needs the night to shine
(I need love)
I need love
 

The one I love

I know nothing beyond thinking
of boys
They know how to say
beautiful things
 
And when I sing them
My song
They look at me
astonished, surprised
 
They take me in hand
in a trembling hand
and their loving eyes
look tenderly in mine
They are very
curious sometimes
 
When I lean my face sweetly
toward them
They just drown
They lose their language
They are very
shy sometimes
 
But the one I love
is not like that
He doesn't laugh, doesn't speak
The one I love is not like that
 
They act like idiots
when I want to laugh
and fall to my knees
whenever I sigh
They are very
kind to me
 
But the one I love
Is not like that
He doesn't laugh, doesn't speak
The one I love is not like that
 
Because the one I love
doesn't love me
because the one I love
doesn't love me
Because the one I love
doesn't love me
 

Azima's Song

When the desert advances
It's life that retreats
Blame it on bad luck
Or god who smites us
 
And the desert is advancing
Nobody believes it
That's out downfall
The impossible fight
 
When the desert advances
What do you want us to be?
The Tuareg women dance
They don't believe it either
 
In their childhood memories
The hunters were there
But the desert advances
The sand becomes king
 
And it's our suffering
Which flows between our fingers
In these immense dunes
Who will survive
 
But you, who come from France
Where people drink to forget
Tell them what you think
Tell them what you see
 
Tell them what their chances are
And that they don't see it
And that we're dying of impotence
But we're keeping the faith
 
May the desert advance
And water never come
Without that deliverance
We no longer have a choice
 
Tell them that night is falling
On this awful emergency
And that it's on our tombs
That the desert is advancing
 
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That makes me laugh

That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
I'm happy, I'm happy
Life is not as you say
It's much easier
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
and it delights me, it delights me
You make yourself a heap of worry
but you don't have to, buddy
 
Never before you did I go out
Never before you did I lie
Yes but since we started going out together
It's a good thing I do
The evenings you arrange to meet me,
I invent a sleep walking story
and you believe me or you don't
It works every time
 
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
Life is beautiful, Life is so beautiful
since, by chance, I learned that I have
Not-so-dumb parents
It makes them laugh, it makes them laugh
It delights them, it delights them
Maybe twenty years ago
They did it too
 
One day you'll come round all prettied up
indeed, it's an old game but it's so cute
We've known each other a long time
You admit we're in love
Dad grunts as this is serious
Mom, not a word escapes her eyes
You, You'll be all intimidated
And unable to think
 
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
It's that I love you, It's that I love you
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
It's that I love you, It's that I love you
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh