Lyrics of the week

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Figurant sur l’album éponyme sortie en juin de cette année, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" est une réflexion de Jewel sur sa vie. Elle semble abandonné définitivement les fantaisies des contes de fées, même si elle ne nie pas le besoin de garder ses rêves. Peu connue en France, à l’instar de Sarah Mc Lachlan, cette jeune poetesse a à son actif 6 albums et 10 ans de carrière. Un son légèrement folk (guitare et piano) accompagnent en général bien ses textes.
Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

It’s four in the afternoon
I’m on a flight leaving L.A.
Trying to think about my life
My youth scattered along the highway

Hotel rooms and headlights
I’ve made a living with a song
Guitar as my companion
Wanting desperately to belong

Fame is filled with spoiled children
They grow fat on fantasy
I guess that’s why I’m leaving
I crave reality

So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
I did not find paradise
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
What was missing in my life

I’m embarassed to say the rest is rock and roll cliche
I hit the bottom when I reached the top
I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart
I thought you had to love me
You did not

Yes a heart can hallucinate
If it’s completely starved for love
It can even turn monsters into angels from above

You forged my love like a weapon
And turned it against me like a knife
You broke my last heartstring
But you opened up my eyes

So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching
What’s beenmissing in my life

Growing up is not the absence of dreaming
It’s being able to understand the difference between
The ones you can hold and the ones that you’ve been sold
Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life
But pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie
Forgetting what you are, seeing for what you’ve been told

Truth is stranger than fiction
And this is my chance to get it right
Life is much better without all of your pretty lies

So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
You can keep your yellow brick road
Cause there is a difference between dreaming and pretending
These are not tears in my eyes
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind wishing
I found what’s missing in my life

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  1. Sarah McLachlan ?? Cest bizarre, ça me dit quelque chose..; Désolé, pas très drôle.
    Ce qui est sûr, c’est queles paroles de cette chanson donnent l’impression qu’elle s’est réveillée un matin, et qu’elle s’est rendu compte qu’elle était adulte, fini le copte de fée.
    Très joli.

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