Gareth Liddiard — Paroles et traduction des paroles de la chanson Strange Tourist
La page contient les paroles et la traduction française de la chanson « Strange Tourist » de Gareth Liddiard.
Paroles
It was all falling down and a long way from cheap
So tell me why did we live where we lived?
Above the old fish shop where they served up slop
And all the alley cats talked in their sleep
I spent a year there with B
After I quit the Mitsubishi
Dragged my mattress up some stairs by the sea
Then watched the old van rust in the gusts of the coast
Ending its knightly expeditions for beer
B went psychotic in the navy and he wouldn’t mend
Something about a sunk junk and speed
Well he couldn’t shake the illness or endure the cure
And there was no point switching treatments in the
Timor Sea
I have never known someone who needed to talk so much
Or even fool himself disguising a guess
I just steered his bullshit through its next diversion
Never bothering with reality checks
Bowerbird, you’d turn a birdbath black
What the hell could be the matter with you?
Where did you come from and why’d you go collecting
Anything that turns the colour blue?
B took his refuge in the open where it stings
You think you’d seen him but he’s gone in a blink
Once those Stilnox hit their target don’t trust nothing
No one
And don’t go believing anything that you think
He’d say, «I'm half way through
But I don’t know what I’m doing
I ain’t feeling much of nothing at all
But it’s my first time too, if that’s a valid excuse
I’m going to wait here for the engines to stall
I’ve seen the tracks of some giant, the smoke of some fire
Fuse like hot sands in a bottleneck
Does all of beauty lie in being dead and gone
Or is all history made of chickens and their unhatched eggs
I’ve seen the spectre of a frigate on a dry rock face
A stone axe held together with an old bootlace
Anything betraying the drift of dead headway
You can shake it but it won’t let go
All that so men can live like girls to keep their might pert
Digging music made by millionaires for car adverts
Save the whales, invade Iraq and have a hamburger
I can’t distinguish between the nightmare and the joke
I was in Tokyo once without any cash
Koda Kumi sang a coda pink as sarin gas
I took a trip to Nagasaki in a rented Mitsubishi
Then went camping in the Jukai under Mount Fuji"
Bowerbird, you’d turn a birdbath black
What the hell could be the matter with you?
Where did you come from and why’d you go collecting
Anything that turns the colour blue?
But when his pension got suspended
Well that spelled the end
And I joined his life of leisure in flight
It’s too hard to row a boat using a periscope
Sometimes you gotta do wrong to do right
He got in trouble years back, I haven’t seen him since
In a men’s room in a night club in Madrid
He sold some dexedrine or something to a plain clothes D
Then raised a stink so bad they ended up deporting him
Then last I heard he was as free as a bird or into Scientology
Or into Heaven’s Gate or Sharon Tate
Or in the Legionnaires
Or gone to Georgia with the Mujahideen
And someone else was walking eggshells in his birdcage
Someone else shared his unending lease on hamstrung rage
He was someone else’s problem, and that made me glad
They can indulge him 'till he’s ironclad
Bowerbird, you’d turn a birdbath black
What the hell could be the matter with you?
Where did you come from and why’d you go collecting
Anything that turns the colour blue?
I wound up working in a hospital
Renting TV’s to the bored and the blind
Seems the DSS got sick of my BS
And had my unemployment privatised
They made a date with me, some agency
And I went down there like a fool in love
They made a few phone calls, found a real cure-all
Like I wasn’t miserable enough
I was working night shift when he got there
The first time I’d seen a coma on the ward
The sister said he won’t be needing TV now
Probably won’t be needing nothing at all
He was in Tokyo for a while until he stabilised
They flew him back here and the story unfolded
They found him frozen in a hollow in Aokigahara forest
Where those harakiri weirdoes go
He died a little later, and was wheeled away
I’d blame his morbid fascination for it all
And his doubtless, groundless faith
In his outdoorsmanship
He didn’t kill himself, he didn’t have the balls
Hope dies last in a hospital
But has a habit of doing it next to you
While you shit kick around with your eyes to the ground
Like a bowerbird appropriating anything
The colour blue
Traduction des paroles
Sauvez les baleines, envahissez L'Irak et prenez un hamburger
Je ne peux pas distinguer entre le cauchemar et la blague
J'étais à Tokyo une fois sans argent
Koda Kumi a chanté une coda rose comme gaz sarin
J'ai fait un voyage à Nagasaki dans un Mitsubishi loué
Puis est allé camper dans le Jukai sous le mont Fuji"
Bowerbird, tu transformerais un bain d'oiseaux en noir
Ce que l'enfer pourrait être le problème?
D'où venez vous et pourquoi êtes vous allé chercher
Quelque chose qui rend la couleur bleue?
Mais quand sa pension a été suspendue
Bien que précisé à la fin
Et j'ai rejoint sa vie de loisir en vol.
Il est trop difficile de ramer un bateau en utilisant un périscope
Parfois il faut faire le mal pour faire le bien
Il a eu des ennuis il y a des années, je ne l'ai pas vu depuis
Dans une chambre d'homme dans une boîte de nuit à Madrid
Il a vendu de la dexédrine ou quelque chose à un D en civil
Ensuite soulevé une odeur tellement mauvais qu'ils ont fini par l'expulser
Puis la dernière fois j'ai entendu qu'il était libre comme un oiseau ou en Scientologie
Ou into Heaven's Gate ou Sharon Tate
Ou chez les légionnaires
Ou parti en Géorgie avec les moudjahidines
Et quelqu'un d'autre marchait des coquilles d'oeufs dans sa cage à oiseaux
Quelqu'un d'autre a partagé son bail sans fin sur la rage des ischio-jambiers
Il était quelqu'un d'autre problème, et ça m'a rendu heureux
Ils peuvent lui faire plaisir jusqu'à ce qu'il soit solide
Bowerbird, tu transformerais un bain d'oiseaux en noir
Ce que l'enfer pourrait être le problème?
D'où venez vous et pourquoi êtes vous allé chercher
Quelque chose qui rend la couleur bleue?
J'ai fini par travailler dans un hôpital
Location de TV pour les ennuyés et les aveugles
On dirait que le DSS en a marre de mes BS
Et mon chômage a été privatisé
Ils ont fait un rendez-vous avec moi, une agence
Et j'y suis allé comme un fou amoureux
Ils ont passé quelques coups de fil, trouvé un vrai remède
Comme si je n'étais pas assez misérable
Je travaillais de nuit quand il est arrivé
La première fois que j'avais vu un coma dans la salle
La sœur a dit qu'il n'aurait plus besoin de la télé maintenant
Probablement ne sera pas besoin de rien du tout