June 25, 2011

  • I hope you've been practicing....

    ...your French, because here's another one!

    In keeping with the fun, goofy, French yet not songs that I love to sing.... Here's a great song by one of my fav local bands : Pink Martini.  If you have never had the pleasure of seeing them, then may I suggest you remedy that as soon as possible?

     

    Sympathique - by Pink Martini

     

    (en FRANCAIS)

    Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage

    Le soleil passe son bras pas la fenetre

    Les chasseurs a ma porte

    comme les petits soldats

    que veulent me prendre

     

    Je ne veux pas travailler

    Je ne veux pas dejeuner

    Je veux seulement oblier

    et puis je fume

     

    Deja j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour

    Un million de roses

    n'embaumerai pas autant

    Maintenant une seule fleur

    dans mes entourages

    me rend malade

     

    Chorus

     

    Je ne suis pas fier de ca

    vie qui vuet me tuer

    C'est manifique

    etre sympathique

    Mais je ne le connais jamais

     

    Chorus

    (In ENGLISH)

    My room is a cage

    The sun streams through the window

    The bellhops are at my door

    like those little soldiers

    who want to take me away

     

    I don't want to work

    I don't want to lunch

    I want only to forget

    and so I smoke

     

    Long ago I knew the smell of love

    A million roses

    didn't smell as sweet

    Now a single flower

    in my way

    makes me sick

     

    Chorus

     

    I am not proud of this

    life that wants to kill me

    It is magnificent

    to be sympatico

    But I have never known this

     

    chorus