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She Told Me

She told me
Write a happy song
Not a depressing song
A song that everyone loves
 
She told me
You will become a millionaire
You will be proud
Do not end up like your father
 
She told me
Don't shut yourself in your bedroom
Go ahead shake yourself and dance
Tell me what your problem is
She told me
Why aren't you more suave
You're stoned/broken or you win
You'll end up like your brother
She told me
 
She told me, it's your life
Do what you want, oh well
One day you'll understand
One day you'll want it
She told me, you're a zero
Get out of your bubble a little
You don't anything important
Looks like you like that
 
Why are you wasting your life (x3)
Dance Dance Dance
Why are you wasting your life (x3)
Dance Dance Dance
 
She told me
Act like the other boys
Go kick a ball around
You will become popular
She told me
What are you doing on the internet
It's not good in your head
Look at the time you lose
She told me
Why do you complain all the time
You act like you're eight years old
That's not how you're going make me happy
She told me
One day I will be gone
But when she said that
 
She told me something that I love
 
She told me, it's your life
Do what you want, oh well
One day you'll understand
One day you'll want it
She told me, you're a zero
Get out of your bubble a little
You don't anything important
Looks like you like that
 
Why are you wasting your life (x3)
Dance Dance Dance
She told me dance
Why are you wasting your life (x3)
Dance Dance Dance
She told me dance
 
She told me
You don't have white hair
But soon you'll be thirty years old
It would be better if you wake up
She told me
You're still a child
You will never be great
And I am already old
She told me
Look at your friends
What will they do with their lives
There is something to fuck up
She told me
Yes one day you will kill me
But when she said that
She told me something that I love
 
She told me dance (x8)
 
She told me, it's your life
Do what you want, oh well
One day you'll understand
One day you'll want it
She told me, you're a zero
Get out of your bubble a little
You don't anything important
Looks like you like that
 
Why are you wasting your life (x3)
Dance Dance Dance
She told me dance
 
Original lyrics

Elle me dit

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Comments
ferdibardaferdibarda    Fri, 19/08/2011 - 14:29

In the third part, he says :
Qu'est-ce que t'as t'as l'air coincé [What's up with you, you look uptight]
T'es défoncé ou t'es gay ? [You're high or you're gay ?]
Along the song, it's basically all the awful things a mother can say to her son, some of them Mika probably heard himself...

ferdibardaferdibarda    Fri, 19/08/2011 - 14:32

Also, when he says "tu ne seras jamais grand" it means "you'll never grown", as in you'll never be a grown man.
Apart from that, I think you're good (I'm french so I can't really tell for the English, but it sounds consistant)

ferdibardaferdibarda    Fri, 19/08/2011 - 14:32

"you'll never BE grown" sorry

eeeeeeegeeeeeeeg    Fri, 07/10/2011 - 00:41

Un jour tu t'en voudras=One day you'll hate yourself

s'en vouloir=to hate yourself/hold something against yourself
en vouloir à quelqu'un=to hate someone/hold something against someone

rutebegarutebega    Sun, 19/02/2012 - 19:04

I don't know where you're coming from eeeeeeeg, but vouloir means "to want."
Perhaps you're mixing it up with another verb, but the word that I know for hate is détester.

jchevaisjchevais    Sat, 03/03/2012 - 16:27

actually eeeeeeg is right. s'en vouloir means "to hate yourself" and en vouloir à quelqu'un does mean "to hold a grudge".

Qu'est-ce tu fous sur Internet ?
Ca va pas bien dans ta tête (means something along the lines of "have you lost your mind"... sort of)

mtldogmtldog    Fri, 13/07/2012 - 15:45

my corrections (some are the same as others):

milliardaire = billionaire
coincé = uptight
défoncé = stoned is the correct translation
un jour tu t'en voudras = i think this is actually should be "one day you will only blame yourself.
qu'est-ce que tu fous sur internet = what the FUCK are you doing on the internet. (foutre is more vulgar than just faire)
jamais grand = you'll never grow up

rest seems fine to me

mtldogmtldog    Fri, 13/07/2012 - 17:03

rutebega,

i will confirm eeeeeeg is right regarding (s)'en vouloir.
vouloir = to want.
en vouloir = to hold a grudge/hold something against someone.
s'en vouloir = to blame oneself. Therefore, t'en vouloir = to blame yourself.

ClockworkGlamClockworkGlam    Sun, 16/06/2013 - 20:19

'Défoncé' means the same thing as 'stoned'.

jinete45jinete45    Mon, 11/09/2017 - 20:36

"Gay" means "gay." And "Elle me dit" means "she tells me."

RadixIceRadixIce
   Tue, 22/05/2018 - 08:10

The source lyrics have been updated. Please review your translation.