Dan: Jun 14, 2008

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A true stage dynamo, Lara always leaves the viewer breatless with her gutso delivery and matching gestures. Nobody moves like her!! Here she sings one of her signature songs Je suis malade (I'm Mad) and demonstrates her talent as an actress of music. As she once said "I like putting myself in danger when I sing sometimes", she gives it her all and then some for the public here. It's both an inspiring and devastating moment to witness.

Je suis malade (Serge Lama/Alice Donna)

Unofficial Lyric Adaptation**, by me..David Man (**literal translation follows this text)

I'M MAD

I don't have a dream
I don't have a hit
I don't even have a name
In the lost and found
Like a broken child
I'm just a mess and I don't care

I don't wanna live
I don't wanna give
Why give when you're not there
I don't have a life
And even the skies
Turn blue to grey
When you're away

Chorus:
I feel truly mad
Completely sick, really mad
Just like when mom was leaving me
Hopelessly crying in my bed all through the night
I feel truly mad
Completely sick, really mad
Nobody knows when you'll be home
And when you're home, I'm on my own
Why do you treat me the way you do
What did I do

Could it be a sin
Could it be I'm weak
What is it I feel for you
Every single day
I will play the game
Pretend I'm ok when they're around
I'm drunk through and through
Oh it's nothing new
You know, nights're the enemy
When I close my eyes
It's still you I find
There's no hiding place, you're everywhere

Chorus:
I feel truly mad
Completely sick, really mad
I am a bird under your sky
I'm burning like an inferno
Without a spark
I feel truly mad
Completely sick, really mad
Because of you I'm lost for words
Because of you I'm without song
And yet I know I had it all
Before your touch

What more can I do ?
I feel like a fool
Here in the dark, by the radio
Soon I will be down
Alone in the night
Singing over and over these crazy words

Chorus:
I feel truly mad
Completely sick, truly mad
Just like when mom was leaving me
Hopelessly crying in my bed all through the night
I feel truly mad
That's right...I'm mad!
Because of you I'm lost for words
Because of you I'm out of touch
And now my heart is going wild..wild
I swear I'm gonna fly up high
That's right... my heart is truly mad

**Please note, this is an ADAPTATION, not a literal translation (word for word), which means liberties were took as far as rendering the text to conserve measure & rhymes, but the general idea of the lyric is still there.

Another note : The word "malade" in French has several meanings; one being "sick" (as in illness)...the other being "sick in the head" (as in being mad, deranged or crazy). It's the second meaning that is rendered in this adaptation.

Literal Translation (by 123marieee)

I Am Ill

I don't dream anymore
I don't smoke anymore
I don't even have a story anymore
I am unclean without you
I am ugly without you
I am like an orphan in a dormitory

I don't want to live
My life anymore
My life stops when you leave
I no longer have my life
And even my bed
Transform into a train station
When you go away

I am ill, completely ill,
Like when my mother went out at night
And left me alone with my despair
I am ill, perfectly ill
No-one knows where you go when you leave
No-one knows when you will turn up again
And it'll soon be almost two years
You've not given a damn

Like to a rock
Like to a sin
I'm hooked on you
I'm tired
I'm exhausted
Of pretending to be happy when they're there
I drink every night
And every whiskey
They all taste the same to me
And all the boats carry your flag
I don't know where to go anymore, you're everywhere

I am ill, completely ill
I shed my blood in your body
And I'm like a dead bird when you're asleep
I am ill, perfectly ill
You have deprived me of all my melodies
You have emptied me of all my words
But I had talent before you came along

This love is killing me
And it goes on and on
I will die alone with myself
Close to my radio
Like a silly kid
Listening to my own voice that will sing

I am ill, completely ill,
Like when my mother went out at night
And left me alone with my despair
I am ill, perfectly ill
You have deprived me of all my melodies
You have emptied me of all my words
And my heart is completely ill
Surrounded by barricades, you hear, I'm ill