Elle me dit - Mika / Be Thou Wast Wont - WTWM

[timlehms]

Be Thou Wast Wont - Were the World Mine, Tanner Cohen

youtu.be/5iIctQLZoLg

Lu lu lu
Lu lu lu
Lu lu lu
Lu lu lu
Lu lu lu
Lu lu
Lu lu lu

We fairies
That do run
From the presence
Of the sun
We follow
Darkness
Like a dream
Like a dream

Ooo ooo ooo
Ooo ooo ooo
Ooo ooo ooo
Ooo ooo ooo
TIMOTHY:
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Yeah yeah,
Ooh ooooh

We fairies
That do run
From the presence
Of the sun
We follow
Darkness
Like a dream

Be as thou wast want to be
See as thou wast want to see (6X)

Elle me Dit - Mika

youtu.be/NiHWwKC8WjU

French
Elle Me Dit

Elle me dit
Écris une chanson contente
Pas une chanson déprimante
Une chanson que tout le monde aime

Elle me dit
Tu deviendras milliardaire
Tu auras de quoi être fier
Ne finis pas comme ton père

Elle me dit
Ne t'enferme pas dans ta chambre
Vas-y, secoue-toi et danse
Dis-moi c'est quoi ton problème

Elle me dit
Qu'est-ce que t'as ? t'as l'air coincé
T'es défoncé ou t'es gay ?
Tu finiras comme ton frère

Elle me dit

Elle me dit, c'est ta vie
Fais c'que tu veux, tant pis
Un jour tu comprendras
Un jour tu t'en voudras

Elle me dit, t'es trop nul
Sors un peu de ta bulle
Tu fais n'importe quoi
On dirait que t'aimes ça

Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse
Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse

Elle me dit
Fais comme les autres garçons
Vas taper dans un ballon
Tu deviendras populaire

Elle me dit
Qu'est-ce tu fous sur Internet ?
Ca va pas bien dans ta tête
Regarde le temps que tu perds

Elle me dit
Pourquoi tu te plains tout le temps ?
On dirait que t'as huit ans
C'est pas comme ca que tu vas m'plaire

Elle me dit
Un jour je serais plus là
Mais c'est quand elle me dit ça
Qu'elle me dit un truc que j'aime

Elle me dit, c'est ta vie
Fais c'que tu veux, tant pis
Un jour tu comprendras
Un jour tu t'en voudras

Elle me dit, t'es trop nul
Sors un peu de ta bulle
Tu fais n'importe quoi
On dirait que t'aimes ça

Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse
Elle me dit danse
Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse
Elle me dit danse

Elle me dit
T'as pas encore des ch'veux blancs
Mais t'auras bientôt trente ans
Vaudrait mieux que tu te réveilles

Elle me dit
Tu es toujours un enfant
Tu ne seras jamais grand
Et moi je suis déjà vieille

Elle me dit
Regarde un peu tes amis
Qu'est-ce qu'ils vont faire de leur vie ?
Il y a de quoi se foutre en l'air

Elle me dit
Oui un jour tu me tueras
Mais c'est quand elle me dit ça
Qu'elle me dit un truc que j'aime

Elle me dit danse (x8)

Elle me dit, c'est ta vie
Fais c'que tu veux, tant pis
Un jour tu comprendras
Un jour tu t'en voudras

Elle me dit, t'es trop nul
Sors un peu de ta bulle
Tu fais n'importe quoi
On dirait que t'aimes ça

Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse
Elle me dit danse
Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie (x3)
Danse, danse, danse
Elle me dit danse




English
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

I apologize for not being able to choose one song to use. Both in different ways apply the A Long Day's Journey Into Night.

[timlehms]

The first song Be Thou Wast Wont refers to the love of fog that is perhaps the only common linkage among the Tyrone's. The main chorus, being the only true lyrics that the song posses captures in a much more beautiful way then depicted in the book, the behavior of each member of the family. All characters attempt to "run from the sun", being the reality that they all are forced to live in. The darkness that the song sings of is the equivalent of the the fog described in the book, a state somewhere in between reality and the past that the characters dream constantly about. The last verse also describes the manner in which each individual leads their life, through thinking of primarily themselves and seeing the world around them as they wish to see it, even when being told of the true reality that exists. This seems to be most true for Mary, whose morphine addiction has her in a state of fixation where she is no longer able to see her life as any other way but how she interprets it, which to her is very sad as she longs for her possibly more luxurious life before marrying James. Jamie also seems to fit this situation as he is trying to ignore the fact that his life is at a dead end with no where for him to go until he over comes the constrictions of his fixation regarding his lack of maternal care. The second song I thought related more to the interactions of the family. The lyrics tell of a mother trying to tell her son to make something of his life by stating that he is worthless. Beyond that the song mentions that she thinks one day her son will kill her. To me this was a reminder of the blame that Mary placed upon Jamie for Eugene's death. There are also the lines stating "Don't end up like your father/brother" which also is reminiscent of the likeness that Edmund has to his brother in terms of his habits.