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The Stranglers – Death and Night and Blood Lyrics 15 years ago
This song is about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima (or rather about the themes of his writing)... the title comes from a sentence of his that is often quoted ""But my heart's yearning towards Death and Night and Blood would not be denied."

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The Stranglers – La Folie Lyrics 16 years ago
Pretty good attempt, i'll up the stakes further

Bonsoir

Good Evening

Ton vehicule n'a pas l`air d`avoir de passager

Your vehicle doesn't seem to have a passanger

Peux-tu: Veux tu me recevoir

Can you: Would you let me in

Sans trop te deranger?

Without disturbing you too much?

Mes bottes ne feront pas trop d`echos dans ton couloir

My boots won't echo too much in your corridor

Pas de bruit avec mes adieux

No noise accompanies my parting

Pas pour nous les moments perdus

No lost moments for us

En attendant un uncertain au-revoir

Waiting for an uncertain goodbye

Parce que-j'ai la folie, oui c'est la folie

Because I'm mad, yes it's madness

Il etait une fois un etudiant

One time there was a student

Qui voulait fort, comme en literature

Who had a great desire, as they say in books

Sa copine, elle etait si douce

His girlfriend, she was so sweet

Qu'il pouvait presque, en la management

That he could almost, by eating her

Rejeter tous les vices

Reject all vices

Repousser tou les mals

Repulse everything bad

Detruire toutes beautes

Destroy all beauty

Qui par ailleurs, n'avait jamais ete ses complices

Which anyway, had never been his accomplices.

Parces qu'il avait la folie, oui, c'est la folie

Because he was mad, yes it's madness

Et si parfois l'on fait des confessions

And if the time comes to make a confession

A qui les raconter - meme le bon dieu nous a laisse tomber

Who can you confess to - even the good God has deserted us

Un autre endroit, une autre vie

Another place, another life

Eh oui, c'est une autre histoire

And yes, it's another story

Mais a qui tou raconter?

But who can you tell it all?

Chez les ombres de la nuit?

In teh shadows of the night?

Au petit matin, au petit gris

At dawn, at dusk

Combien de crimes ont ete commis

How many crimes have been committed

Contre les mensonges et soi disant les lois du coeur

Against lies and so called laws of the heart

Combien sont la a cause de la folie

How many are here because of madness

Parce qu'il ont la folie

Because they are mad

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