Emily / She Tells Me - Elle Me Dit in English

Christine · 08-08-2011, 09:54 PM

Thanks to everyone who contributed to putting together the song lyrics and to Tiibet for providing the first video of the only performance we have of the English Elle Me Dit (so far!)

She tells me can't you write a happy song
Get your ass to number one
You could try a little harder
She tells me you could be a millionaire
But you're so full of hot air
Gonna end up like your father

She tells me you can't leave your life to chance
Get a girl and learn to dance
Be a boy like any other
She tells me why you got so much to say
Are you stuck up, are you gay
Gonna end up like your brother

She tells me it's my life
Don’t get to live it twice
One day you'll understand
Become a better man
She's pulling out her hair
But says she doesn't care
She doesn't make no sense
Screaming at me in French

She tells me you live your life in a balloon
Lock yourself up in your room
So the world can never reach ya
She tells me whatcha smoking, what's that stench
Who you’re speaking to in French
Did you really think you had me

She tells me that’s enough, do as you’re told
Does she think I’m eight years old
I give up it's not worth trying
She tells me one day I will end up dead
That's the only thing she said
That would ever get me smiling

She tells me it's my life
Don’t get to live it twice
One day you'll understand
Become a better man
She's pulling out her hair
But says she doesn't care
She doesn't make no sense
Screaming at me in French

She tells me you live your life in a balloon
Lock yourself up in your room
So the world can never reach ya
She tells me am I speaking Japanese
Then she's falling on her knees
Starts her praying to St. Peter
She tells me see the price I had to pay
Had to give my life away
All the sh*t I have to get through
She tells me why'd you make this hard for me
It's not the way it's meant to be
I don't want to have to hate you

TimyBlanco · 08-08-2011, 10:03 PM

Thank u for the new thread.

nenartus · 08-08-2011, 10:12 PM

It deserves a new thread. It sounds different in English.

suzie · 08-08-2011, 10:19 PM

yes. Suddenly it all makes sense and I think it is a good song.

I hope Mika will record it in English for the album and change the production a bit so that we can have two versions of the same song. I wouldn't mind it being a bit more electronic but without his voice being distorted.

sweet.pixie · 08-08-2011, 10:21 PM

Amazing team work of the MFC as always!

Now I can stop being obsessed with getting the lyrics and study for uni

silver · 08-08-2011, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet.pixie

Amazing team work of the MFC as always!

Now I can stop being obsessed with getting the lyrics and study for uni

Glad to see you have your priorities right

But well done to the MFC lyric team

sweet.pixie · 08-08-2011, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by silver

Glad to see you have your priorities right

But well done to the MFC lyric team

I stopped a just few hours yesterday and some other today

But, yeah

Mikafan96 · 08-08-2011, 10:50 PM

Thank you...im soo happy and i love his face at the beginning(ish) when he says "i'm not going to sing it to your in french"

Fran · 08-08-2011, 10:52 PM

Thank you very much for the new thread, Christine!

And

for all of those who worked hard to write down the lyrics! You rock!

Fran · 08-08-2011, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikafan96

Thank you...im soo happy and i love his face at the beginning(ish) when he says "i'm not going to sing it to your in french"

Haha YES! It's like "oh well, I might be doing something wrong"

tiibet · 08-08-2011, 10:55 PM

I have mixed feelings after this English version. I really liked the idea he is doing songs in French. And it was so cool he did it in English in Schaffhausen, I loved it, but I still assumed (and hope) it will be in French on the album.

Thanks everyone working with the lyrics!!

You did it so fast!!

silver · 08-08-2011, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tiibet

I have mixed feelings after this English version. I really liked the idea he is doing songs in French. And it was so cool he did it in English in Schaffhausen, I loved it, but I still assumed (and hope) it will be in French on the album.

Thanks everyone working with the lyrics!!

You did it so fast!!

I hope the French version will be a bonus track in France, and the English version will be a bonus track elsewhere. Then we can have both