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La Folie Lyrics

Bonsoir,
Ton véhicule n'a pas l'air d'avoir de passager
Peux-tu, veux tu me recevoir
Sans trop te déranger ?
Mes bottes ne feront pas trop d'écho dans ton couloir
Pas de bruit avec mes adieux
Pas pour nous les moments perdus
En attendant un incertain au-revoir
Parce que j'ai la folie, oui c'est la folie

Il était une fois un etudiant
Qui voulait fort, comme en littérature
Sa copine, elle était si douce
Qu'il pouvait presque, en la mangeant,
Rejeter tous les vices
Repousser tous les mals (maux)
Detruire toute beauté
Qui par ailleurs, n'avaient jamais été ses complices
Parce qu'il avait la folie, oui, c'est la folie

Et si parfois l'on fait des confessions
A qui les raconter, même le bon Dieu nous a laissé tomber

Un autre endroit, une autre vie
Eh oui, c'est une autre histoire
Mais à qui tout raconter ?
Chez les ombres de la nuit ?
Au petit matin, au petit gris
Combien de crimes ont été commis
Contre les mensonges et soi-disant les lois du coeur
Combien sont là à cause de la folie
Parce qu'ils ont la folie
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honestfi On Jan 06, 2007
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Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

Good Evening Your vehicle doesn’t seem to have an occupant Could you : Would you let me in Or would that be too much trouble ? My boots won’t echo too much in your passageway No noise accompanies my parting No wasted moments for us Waiting for an uncertain reunion Because I’m mad, yes it’s madness

There once was a student Who had a great desire, as they say in books His girlfriend was so sweet that by eating her, He was able to reject all vices, repulse all males, Destroy everything beautiful Which up until then, had never been known to him Because he was mad, yes it’s madness

And if sometimes you can confess to it To whom can you reveal all - even god himself has Deserted us

Another Life, another place And of course, another story But to whom can you open your heart ? At dawn, at dusk How may crimes have been committed Against falsehods and so-called laws of the heart How many are here because of madness Because they are mad

Found that on a forum

Pretty good attempt, i'll up the stakes further

Bonsoir

Good Evening

Ton vehicule n'a pas lair davoir 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

...

Its not repulse all males

Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

She was not his girlfriend. Apparently they got that wrong.

Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

He also was not French. He simply lived there for a short time before returning to Japan.

Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

Done my best to turn it into English

Good evening Your vehicule does not have the air to d`avoir of passenger Can you: Want you to receive me Without too you deranger? My boots will not make goodbye echos in your corridor of noise with my Past good-byes for us the moments lost While waiting for a uncertain Parce that-I have the madness, yes it is the madness It etait once one etudiant Which extremely wanted, as in literature His/her girlfriend, she etait so soft That he could almost, in Rejeter management all the defects Repousser tou the mals Detruire all beauties Which in addition, never had ete its Parces accomplices that he had the madness, yes, it is the madness And so sometimes one makes confessions A which to tell them - same the good god us A drops is life Eh yes, it another history But has which tou to tell? At the shades of the night? In the early morning, with the small gray Combien crimes ete made Against the lies and it have saying laws of the heart Combien are it because of the madness Because it have the madness

Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

It is based on a actual French cannibal-killer whose name escapes me. Post-jail, he became a celebrity in Japan.

Cover art for La Folie lyrics by Stranglers, The

It's about a guy called Issei Sagawa who ate his Dutch girlfriend in 1981. The wikipedia article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa should you want to find out more about it.

 
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