As mentioned in an earlier post I’ve been looking around for good French music to improve my French.
And then one day a couple of years ago I suddenly realized that a song that I loved when I was maybe 9-10 years old was actually in French! Me and my best friend always used to perform on the Friday afternoons (dedicated by our teacher to doing fun things with the class), taking different songs we liked and lip-synching them toghether with some cool dance we’d made up in front of the class. The song we did the most number of times was Excellence’s Need To Know, but then togehter with a bunch of other friends (we were two or three who were always doing it, and then the rest of the members varied from time to time) . Oh and how many times did we do that one… We did it a couple of times on the Friday afternoons, and then almost at every birthday party (we were 30 students in the class so there were a lot of parties). Eventually the guys in our class knew the choreography (which by the way was exactly the same as Excellence did) as well as we did and they sat in their little gang imitating us each time.
Anyways… One song that me and my best friend did once was Désenchantée by Kate Ryan. I still remember how we stood in her living room practising it, and even though the lyrics was in a language we got nothing of, we tried to learn them to be able to lip-synch professionally. And well, I can’t say we did very well. The only part of the lyrics we were certain of was the first word in the chorus. It was Teckaoo. And then we figured from the title of the song that the last word in the chorus was désenchantée. In between and after it was all a mess, but nothing could stop us from performing it! And so we did, and I don’t think anyone commented on our lip-synching abilities.
But now back to present. Now that I know some French I’ve looked up the lyrics and it surprised me that I didn’t find any word similar to teckaoo in the chorus. In fact it was “tout est chaos” – everything is chaos. Though apparently it was not only us that misheard the lyrics, I just found an hilarious video on youtube where there’s some guy that has made alternative lyrics entirely in Swedish. It’s probably just funny if you know Swedish but I thought I’d link it anyway.
Here’s the original video. I couldn’t find any good video with lyrics included so I thought I’d post them beneath for anyone interested.
Nager dans les eaux troubles
Des lendemains
Attendre ici la fin
Flotter dans l’air trop lourd
Du presque rien
A qui tendre la main
Si je dois tomber de haut
Que ma chute soit lente
Je n’ai trouvé de repos
Que dans l’indifférence
Pourtant, je voudrais retrouver l’innocence
Mais rien n’a de sens, et rien ne va
Tout est chaos
A côté
Tous mes idéaux : des mots Abimés…
Je cherche l’âme, qui
Pourra m’aider
Je suis
D’une géneration désenchantée, désenchantée
Qui pourrait m’empêcher
De tout entendre
Quand la raison s’effondre
A quel sein se vouer
Qui peut prétendre
Nous bercer dans son ventre
Si la mort est un mystère
La vie n’a rien de tendre
Si le ciel a un enfer
Le ciel peut bien m’attendre
Dis moi,
Dans ces vents contraires comment s’y prendre
Plus rien n’a de sens, plus rien ne va.
Tout est chaos
A côté
Tous mes idéaux : des mots Abimés…
Je cherche l’âme, qui
Pourra m’aider
Je suis
D’une géneration désenchantée, désenchantée
Tout est chaos
A côté
Tous mes idéaux : des mots Abimés…
Je cherche l’âme, qui
Pourra m’aider
Je suis
D’une géneration désenchantée, désenchantée
Arise fair sun 