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Jus De Canneberges Lyrics
La mal blanc
sur ma main noire
et le rire jaune
sur tes lèvres roses
Tu verses le sang
sur mes vers blanc (non-puricellulaires)
N'ivoire que du bleu
et pour tuer le ver
tu bois l'armée rouge
sur ma main noire
et le rire jaune
sur tes lèvres roses
sur mes vers blanc (non-puricellulaires)
et pour tuer le ver
tu bois l'armée rouge
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The song is talking about illness, while using words relating to colour:
The first verse translates literally as:
White pain on my black hands Yellow laughter on your pink lips
mal blanc = a bacterial infection of the hands/feet (See: paronychia) rire jaune = forced laughter, sometimes associated with illness
Second verse:
You pour blood on my white (non-multicellular) worms (N'ivoire que du bleu) (?) And to kill the worm You drink the red army
Ivoire = Ivory Bleu = Blue, connotations of "feeling blue", sadness, etc. Rouge = red. Red alludes to blood/war/bloodshed and the L'armee rouge to the red army of the sovet union Ver(s) = Worm(s), but is a play on words. It's homonym "vert" = green. So...to kill the green you drink the red army
Research that shows that cranberry juice helps fight illness/infection. I assume that the song overall makes reference to this. Drinking the cranberry juice (the red army) would give you pink lips (levres roses) and kill the monocellular worms (bacteria) causing the mal blanc (bacterial infection).