| Garbage – Show Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It seems to me she's encouraging someone to express himself : "spit them out", "show me who you are", though she admits it is "not as easy as it seems". Because it is far easier to walk, run, hear, talk... than to express yourself in an artistic way ("dream", "sing"). It is about creativity and art : "there is no rope, there is no line", that is : inspiration needs an object, something to begin with. We are nothing ("specks of dust in the sky") but we can "leave [something] behind" with art. |
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| Garbage – Man On A Wire Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I have no idea what this song is about but I just love it! It's striking how the song starts, sounding just like The Kills, then it sounds like Garbage again, then it starts sounding like The Pretenders ("Yeah, I see you sitting around"...) in their first album. That's not surprising, considering that Shirley Manson admires Chrissie Hynde since her teenage years. | |
| Jacques Brel – Le plat pays Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No comment yet? I love this song (I just try not to listen to it when I am sad or depressed ;) )! |
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| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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That third translation is good - actually, I am french and I am NOT bilingual, which might explain why my translation was not exactly perfect! :) Well, I just saw a video of Jacques Brel, and everytime I see it, it gives me the shivers, such a beautiful song. And so hard to sing, too! lots of singers have tried to sing this song but it is not as easy as it seems... |
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| Noir Désir – Le Vent Nous Portera Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Quite true. I agree with you ; it's all about memory and memories, and what will remain of us ... in the future. Who's got the answer ??? | |
| Louise Attaque – Léa Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Bah, elle a pas l'air très engageante, tout de même, cette Léa!! ;) | |
| Garbage – Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I've also heard that this song was about a transvestite, AND about the book you mentioned above ^^ . If it is so, then it is quite ironic because the whole story of the author being a transvestite and the book being autobiographical etc is a hoax... | |
| Émilie Simon – Song Of The Storm Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| my favorite song from the original soundtrack of "la marche de l'empereur" (in France I mean, because the original soundtrack has been replaced by classical music in the American version of the film... shameful) | |
| Carla Bruni – Quelqu'un M'a Dit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It has just been edited, that's why it has not been commented on! Carla Bruni's sweet yet beautiful voice perfectly fits with the lyrics and the melody of this song. She had a good idea when she decided she could sing and not only be a model! |
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| Garbage – Queer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Shirley Manson is not a lesbian, remember she had been married with a man for ten years when she divorced last year. She said that she had had once a lesbian experience but she had not liked it that much. Anyway the song is awesome. |
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| Garbage – You Look So Fine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Quite unexpectedly, this is the favorite garbage song of my boyfriend :) And maybe mine, too. "Let's pretend, happy end" : so true, you don't want to show to everybody that you suffer of the end of a relationship... |
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| Garbage – The Trick Is To Keep Breathing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me, "the trick is to keep breathing" means that the girl is on the verge of imploding, of beginning to scream at the top of her voice, which she does not want : she wants to calm herself down, which she manages to do by trying to breathe normally : you know, it's like when you are really really upset, either on the verge of crying or of bursting with anger, your breathing becomes difficult because your throat becomes narrower little by little and you can't help it. And you tries to control your breathing, and while you manage to keep breathing normally you can control yourself (I'm not sure I'm expressing myself very clearly hum :/ ). To sum up, to "keep beathing" means to collect yourself and to calm down. | |
| Tryo – L'hymne De Nos Campagnes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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J'adore cette chanson ! Ca me rappelle les soirées à l'UCPA. lol Surtout que les paroles collaient bien aux circonstances, perdus comme on était dans la forêt de Rambouillet. Euh sinon j'avais juste une petite remarque, je voudrais pas faire ma relou mais il y a quelques fautes d'orthographe dans le texte, c'est dommage : - "dédicace" - "une pause" - "diplôme" - "ailleurs" - "sois le premier" - "tu comprendra" - "tu verra" et pis il manque les tirets à chaque fois qu'il y a un ordre ("crie-le" etc). Oui bon je sais, c 'est pas grand chose, mais c'est dommage qu'il y ait de bêtes fautes dans les paroles, non ? En tout cas, usez bien tous de vos cordes vocales!! lol |
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| The Pretenders – Thin Line Between Love And Hate Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't know if I get the meaning right, but at first I thought that it dealt with the story of a woman whose husband always comes back late, never telling her where he has been. She never asks, anyway. Everytime he comes back late, she keeps being sweet, kind to him, so that the husband never "gives a second thought": to him, she's a devoted wife. Even when he hurts her, she does not say a word : she's keeping everything inside. But she suffers. And that's when she commits suicide. That is how I understand the fact that she's in a hospital, bandaged from foot to head : she may have tried to jump from a building or something. And she herself is shocked by what she has done (which can be explained by the fact that a lot of people who commit suicide don't really want to die, they just want "a new start"). But I'm aware that some details don't fit with that. For example, with the chorus saying : "it's a thin line between love and hate", you would expect that the love and hate is between the man and his wife, though it may refer to self-love and self-loathing (it's far-fetched, isn't it?) Then, why the line "...that'll really really hurt you one day" : if the man is such an *******, then I can't see why his wife's suicide would "hurt him" that much : one would have expected the woman to try to kill her husband or something... Anyway, there IS something I don't understand ! (maybe the song is about two women ?? A mother and a daughter ? But then who tries to kill who ???? arrrgrh) |
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| The Pretenders – Talk Of The Twon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. And do you know what ? Shirley Manson liked it too (in case you d'ont know who Shirley Manson is, she is the singer of the group Garbage). In fact she is a big fan of Chrissie Hynde. That is why she sampled this song in their song "special". At first they did not get the autorisation from the labels etc, but then she asked directly Chrissie Hynde, who answered that, of course she could sample her song, and that she could even "sample [her] very arse" if she wanted to ! lol | |
| Suzanne Vega – Tom's Diner Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Of course bellevedette is right!! It is obvious that in this song she is trying to express her feeling of loneliness, and that she not only fells lonely, but in addition nobody pays attention to her presence, or to her existence at all. Above all the song is filled with a feeling of overwhelming sadness, which is expressed by the constant rain. It is raining in herself. I've heard that this sadness is linked to the death of her father or someone close to her : the sadness comes and you have the impression that it will never stop raining. "Before the rain began" quite obviously to the time the person was not dead or gone. |
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| Indochine – J'ai demandé à la lune Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm not shure the other person he's speaking of is a serial heartbreaker, because there is the line : "Et toi et moi on était tellement sûrs Et on se disait quelquefois Que c'était juste une aventure Et que ça ne durererait pas" To me, it means that both of us were thinking it would be nothing more than a "one-night-thing" but at the end they fell in love with each other and somehow they can't be together although they would like to, and it makes them suffer. Maybe they are deeply attracted to each other but cannot bear being together (a kind of "love-hate" relatioship if you see what I mean ;p ), or they are engaged elsewhere. |
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| Noir Désir – Le Vent Nous Portera Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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OK, here is the rest of the translation : La caresse et la mitraille Et cette plaie qui nous tiraille Le palais des autres jours D'hier et demain Le vent les portera mean : The caress and the grapeshot And this wound that gnaw at us The palace of the other days Of yesterday and tomorrow The wind will carry us Génetique en bandouillère Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère Des taxis pour les galaxies Et mon tapis volant dis ? Le vent l'emportera Tout disparaîtra mais Le vent nous portera means : Genetics slung across the shoulder Chromosomes in the atmosphere Taxis for the galaxies And my flying carpet, by the way? The wind will carry it Everything will disappear but The wind will carry us Ce parfum de nos années mortes Ce qui peut frapper à ta porte Infinité de destins On en pose un et qu'est-ce qu'on en retient? Le vent l'emportera mean : This perfume of our dead years What can knock at your door Infinity of destinies We chose one and what remains ? The wind will carry it Pendant que la marée monte Et que chacun refait ses comptes J'emmène au creux de mon ombre Des poussières de toi Le vent les portera Tout disparaîtra mais Le vent nous portera means : While the tide is rising And while everyone is doing his accounts again I bring into my shadow Dusts of you (?) The wind will carry it Everything will disappear but The wind will carry us Ok it may not be a very good translation... |
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| Noir Désir – Le Vent Nous Portera Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| yes, I think you don't need to understand french to love this song, because even when you're french (I am) you don't really understand what it's about (I mean... really) lol But anyway it's poetic and there is no need to understand the meaning of every word. | |
| Noir Désir – Comme Elle Vient Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I can't believe nobody has commented on this one! This is my favorite Noir Désir song. The lyrics are quite strange though, but it's not unusual for Noir Désir, is it? And quite ambiguous, too. (what do you think the sap stands for?...) |
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| Noir Désir – Lost Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. Noir Desir is - I should say was - an excellent music group, remarkable for the lyrics as well as for the music, which is rare. What happened is tragic but I prefer not to think about it so that I can still appreciate the music. I mean, some people think the man's disgusting, so the music's disgusting, too. That's not my case... It's a good thing that your french teacher did introduce you to Noir Désir ; I have the feeling that french teachers too often focus on "classical" singers like Edith Piaf or Jacques Brel (who were excellent but have nothing to do with what young people listen to...). It's a kind of cliché... |
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| Garbage – Bleed Like Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| actually I've just realised that the chorus just sounds like the chorus of "walk on the wild side" by Lou Reed, you know when she says "hey baby can you bleed like me" it's like "hey baby take a walk on the wild side"... | |
| Garbage – Dumb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yes, he definitely didn't have her. He's just a guy that draws his own conclusions on her personality although he cannot understand it at all. | |
| Mathieu Chédid – Je Dis Aime Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Faites l'amour pas la guerre, c'est assez classique, finalement ;p | |
| Zebda – Motivé Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Le chant des partisans : Ami, entends-tu le vol des corbeaux sur nos plaines, Ami, entends-tu ces cris sourds du pays qu’on enchaîne, Ohé, partisans, ouvriers et paysans, c’est l’alarme Ce soir, l’ennemi connaîtra le prix du sang et des larmes. Montez de la mine, descendez des collines, camarades, Sortez de la paille les fusils, la mitraille, les grenades, Ohé les tueurs, à vos armes et vos couteaux, tirez vite. Ohé saboteur, attention à ton fardeau dynamite... C’est nous qui brisons les barreaux des prisons pour nos frères La haine à nos trousses et le faim qui nous pousse, la misère. Il y a des pays où les gens aux creux des lits font des rêves. Ici, nous vois-tu, nous on marche et nous on tue... nous on crève... Ici, chacun sait ce qu’il veut, ce qu’il fait, quand il passe. Ami, si tu tombes, un ami sort de l’ombre à ta place. Demain du sang noir sèchera au grand soleil sur les routes. Chantez compagnons, dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute... |
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| Zebda – Motivé Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I hope you know that the lyrics of this song are not from Zebda. Actually, they are the lyrics of "le chant des partisans", which is the song of the French Resistance fighter. It has been written in 1943 in London and immediately became the hymn of the Resistance against the nazis. The mentionned "enemy" means the nazis and therefore, somehow the violence of the lyrics is justified. It is a song of fraternity, of fight against fascism, a call to resistance. Today the song is still sung to call to fight against xenophobia, thanks to Zebda. Our generation (20 to 30 years old) did not know the war but still the original song is really moving, so Zebda's song is great but not as much as "le chant des partisans"... |
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| Tété – Le Meilleur Des Mondes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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well it's a very rough translation I hope you can understand it I just wanted to say something : this song has nothing to do with France. It is obviously about a war, not about riots. (and the media exaggerated a lot about these riots ; if you listened to it it was nearly a civil war, but in reality nothing of the sort happened... it was confined to certain suburbs)! |
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| Tété – Le Meilleur Des Mondes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Before there was poverty But we had already trouble making ends meet And now there is the war This year, these damned servicemen Have taken everything from me Six brothers, a father, a mother My friends, my country Let’s go, mother Let’s go away, it’s better Here, there is nothing to do anymore For God’s sake Let’s go towards the east Let’s leave this deathly place Let’s go somewhere, where everything is fine, in the best of worlds (x4) Mum unfortunately couldn’t resist the night convoys The fake floors and the holds It killed her As for me I wept Only when I realised How much they had deceived us on the radio In the newspapers They were talking about an enchanting world (x4) Somewhere, where everything is fine, in the best of worlds |
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| Françoise Hardy – Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| a mirliton is a music instrument, but here it is used in the expression "vers de mirliton", which means "bad verses". | |
| Louise Attaque – Léa Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Haha "elle est pas méchante mais putain qu'est-ce qu'elle est chiante" lol phrase culte | |
| Louise Attaque – L'intranquilité Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, I guess French is difficult (I'm glad I never had to learn it as a foreign language!)... But even to me this song is hard to understand. It is nostalgic, even sad if you only read the lyrics, but the song sounds optimistic though. Although I don't understand why he should be optimistic : his friend never answers his letters, people are avoiding eye-contact with one another, he would like to go far, far from here... In short, it'snot really happy... |
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| Garbage – Dumb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have the impression that the man she's talking about reproached her to have these self-esteem problems. When she says "maybe I should write a letter", it sounds a bit bitter and provocative, don't you think ?? But I also have the feeling that this man is a little bit childish and naive : "sucking you thumb", and he's been a bit disorientated by her character. |
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| Tryo – Les Soldats De Plomb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Je trouve que les paroles de cette chanson sont un peu simplistes. J'aime bien les chansons de tryo par ailleurs, mais là je trouve que ça fait un peu discours convenu : les policiers c'est des cons, etc... bof... pas très argumenté en plus... quant à la phrase "de quel droit e me dois de suivre vos loi"... no comment, mais il me semble que "dure est la loi, mais c'est la loi" et que même si les lois sont stupides, on doit quand même les respecter. C'est bête et c'est comme ça.... | |
| Louise Attaque – L'intranquilité Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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We, french, did not think we would find french songs on this american site!! :) Louise Attaque is a great group but often their lyrics are quite un-understandable! |
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| The Beatles – Michelle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| do you really thinks he sounds "lucky"??? he sounds really depressed because he has to part with her! | |
| Madonna – Hollywood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| nice melody (simple lyrics, of course) | |
| Indochine – J'ai demandé à la lune Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| maybe the sun represents his lover, because he "asked the moon, which the sun don't know". The moon may represent a close friend. But I tend to think there's no hidden meaning in this song : everything is said, though in a very poetic way... | |
| Alanis Morissette – Pray For Peace Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Nobody wrote anything here? I have a recording of this song that's really bad, but still the song is great. Not exactly like the songs she used to write, but... | |
| Alanis Morissette – Norwegian Wood (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| actually, the Beatles wrote this song thinking about a lesbian, so, whether it is a lesbian experience for alanis when she sings that song, doesn't really matter.. ;) | |
| Garbage – Metal Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with you. I had never really read the lyrics because the melody is so interesting that I didn't feel I had to understand it to love it, but now that I've realised what it's about, I like it more. It's a good thing that artists take position on that type of subject. The way it is expressed is very wise and poetic and the melody enhances this feeling. I mean, the subject "the media lies to you" is not really new, so it was hard to make something original, and they managed to do it yet. Of course, the song makes me think of the film by michael moore "farenheit 9/11". You may not have seen it, if you live in the States, but here in Europe it had quite a strong impact and a lot of people saw the film, which was a sharp criticism (very subjective) of the policy of the USA regarding the war in Iraq. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Weekends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Why am i the first to comment this song?? I love it! i have a live version of it and it makes me think of her first album. The names she mentions (taylor, chris...) are the musicians of her "jagged little pill tour" (i mean, the first tour). Really good song! |
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| Garbage – Vow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I had never thought of it being about drug addiction, but now i realise it is a good idea. There is only one passage which does not fit with this explanation, I think :when she sings I came around to tear your little world apart etc. I refers more to a person than to a drug but maybe the meaning is double |
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| Garbage – Girl Don't Come Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| about a rival, apparently | |
| Alanis Morissette – The Couch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ...train for example), I sing the words in my head (it is a hard work, trying to recall all the verses in the right order!!) and it helps me wait. | |
| Alanis Morissette – The Couch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've heard in an interviex that this song was about her father, and that she had sung this to him and he had been very moved. So understandable. This song is awesome. The words are very beautiful and harmonious together. I especially love the last verse "so here we both are battling similar demons (not coincidentally)". There is a lot of emotion here. The lyrics are like a poem and whenever I feel bored (in the tr |
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| Alanis Morissette – Purgatorying Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song, which is strange because, usually I don't like this sort of songs (too "calm!"). But the melody is really beautiful. I especially like it in the dvd "feast on scraps", even if it's irritating that the song is divided in three parts... | |
| Alanis Morissette – Perfect Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| lol the part when she sings "what the problem why are you crying????!!!!!" is a kind of legend for me and my best friend, it is a sort of a code that reminds us we are indeed best friends! so for me, even if this song is not my favorite in JLP, it still represents something... | |
| Alanis Morissette – King Of Intimidation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Alanis Morissette – King Of Intimidation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it's king of intimiDATION, not imitation (in the title!!) I'm not sure I understand who this song is aoubt... |
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| Alanis Morissette – I Was Hoping Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I really love this song, the melody is so beautiful... What is this song about? I don't have a clue, to tell you the truth... Well, I quite agree with what you said above. I always had the feeling that the first part of the song was about a conversation between her and a man she met for the first time. Then, it's not about the same man anymore, and it becomes harder to understand what it's all about. But anyway, I love this song even if I cannot really understand it, its mystery makes it even more attractive to me. |
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