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Old 06-05-2015, 09:52 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Yesterday I happened upon the music of a French-Canadian, Émile Proulx-Cloutier.

Some of his songs are available at: Émile Proulx-Cloutier Videos, Lyrics, Full Albums & Bios | SonicHits

I especially like his song "Mayday," a very sweet-sounding love (?) song with thought-provoking lyrics that I can only partially understand (since the automatic English translation is poor), but that appears to end with these intriguing words: "I carry you around like a belt of explosives or a baby kangaroo" (very delicately, apparently).



If some French-speaker could translate the French lyrics into English for me, I'd really appreciate it!

Émile Proulx-Cloutier - "Mayday"

Y a quelquun qui croque mon coeur
ya quelquun qui cri mon nom
les petits soldats de pailles
marche a moi en bataillon
tout les jours je vous repond
par la bouche de mes canons
tout les soirs je me recouche
le canon loin dans la bouche

et j attends que l aube arrive
et j attends que l aube arrive
et j attend que l aube arrive
jusqua ce qu amour s en suive

Ya des yeux plein d aventures
ya des jeux beaucoup beaucou
mais la peur au coin du mur
lache sur moi son chien fou
oui parfois la joie me heurte
dans les fuites les fetes les flirts
les medailles que je voulais
tombe la comme des boulets

Et j avance a la derive
et j avance a la derive
et j avance a la derive
jusqua ce qu amour s en suive

Sur toi la peur j ai fait mes griffes
et je te porte partout
comme une ceinture d explosif
ou un bebe kangourou

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I also like this song by the same artist because it sounds so warm due to the very pretty guitar and vocals and the pleasant accordion:

Émile Proulx-Cloutier - "Ce qui ne peut se taire"



Another song by him that I like is:

Émile Proulx-Cloutier - "Madame Alice"
I have no idea what he is saying, but I still like it.



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And I agree with Lisnaholic that this French pop song sounds cool!

Stromae - "Sommeil"

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