Je suis malade

Lora   Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:44 pm GMT
Can someone translate these lyrics into English for me. I get the gist of it but there are a few turns of phrases that I don't quite understand.

Je ne rêve plus je ne fume plus
Je n'ai même plus d'histoire
Je suis sale sans toi je suis laid sans toi
Je suis comme un orphelin dans un dortoir

Je n'ai plus envie de vivre ma vie
Ma vie cesse quand tu pars
Je n'ai plus de vie et même mon lit
Se transforme en quai de gare
Quand tu t'en vas

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu'elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
T'arrives on ne sait jamais quand
Tu repars on ne sait jamais où
Et ça va faire bientôt deux ans
Que tu t'en fous

Comme à un rocher comme à un péché
Je suis accroché à toi
Je suis fatigué je suis épuisé
De faire semblant d'être heureux quand ils sont là

Je bois toutes les nuits mais tous les whiskies
Pour moi ont le même goût
Et tous les bateaux portent ton drapeau
Je ne sais plus où aller tu es partout

Je suis malade complètement malade
Je verse mon sang dans ton corps
Et je suis comme un oiseau mort quand toi tu dors

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
Tu m'as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m'as vidé de tous mes mots
Pourtant moi j'avais du talent avant ta peau

Cet amour me tue et si ça continue
Je crèverai seul avec moi
Près de ma radio comme un gosse idiot
Écoutant ma propre voix qui chantera

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu'elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade c'est ça je suis malade
Tu m'as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m'as vidé de tous mes mots
Et j'ai le cœur complètement malade
Cerné de barricades t'entends je suis malade
Josh Lalonde   Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:46 pm GMT
I'd like to help you out, but I don't really want to go through the whole thing (sorry, I'm lazy!). If you would point out which parts are causing you difficulties, I could translate them for you.
Guest   Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:34 am GMT
Try translating it yourself and we'll correct whatever needs correcting!
Lora   Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:35 am GMT
I'm sorry I asked. Thanks for the offer Josh Lalonde, but I'll take my business elsewhere. This forum sucks.
Jérémy   Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:17 pm GMT
This is a song sung my Serge Lama. It was notably also sung by Lara Fabian, to such an extent that quite a lot of French people, especially young, do not even know that it was Serge Lama's song.

I tried to translate it for you:


I don't dream anymore, I don't smoke anymore
I don't even have a history of myself anymore
I am dirty without you, I am ugly without you
I am like an orphan in a dormitory

I don't feel like living my life anymore
My life stops when you leave
I don't have a bed anymore and even my life
Turns into the platform of a train station
When you leave

I am sick (morally), thoroughly sick
Like when my mother used to go out at night
Leaving me alone with my despair

I am perfectly sick
You arrive - one never knows when
You leave again - one never knows where
And it's been nearly two years
That you haven't given a damn

Like on a boulder, like on a sin
I am hooked on you
I am tired, I am exhausted
Of pretending to be happy when they are here

I drink all nights but all the whiskies
Have the same taste to me
And all the boats exhibit your flag
I don't jnow where to go anymore, you are everywhere

I am sick, thoroughly sick
I pour my blood into your body
And I am like a dead bird when you are sleeping

I am sick, thoroughly sick
You have deprived me of all my songs
You have emptied my of all my words
Though I was talented [before your skin - French "avant ta peau", does not mean anything, I have never really understood that phrase but I guess it means "before I came close to your skin"]

That love is killing me and if things keep going
I'll die all alone with myself
Near my radio like a idiotic kid
Listening to my own voice that will sing

I am sick, thoroughly sick
Like when my mother used to go out at night
Leaving me alone with my despair

I am sick, that's it, I am sick
You deprived me of all my songs
You emptied me of all my words
And my heart is thoroughly sick
Surrounded my barricades, can you hear me ? I am sick !
Guest   Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:23 am GMT
I know that song!

It's called "Parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade"

Yes!
Jason   Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:55 pm GMT
I think Dalida sang it best.
kathleen   Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:19 am GMT
thanks for translating this...i was looking for a translation...before i got the gist of the song but didnt understand word for word but now i do!