Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)...

Celine Dion - Ziggy

Lyric - Luc Palmondon
Music - Michel Berger


Ziggy, il s'appelle Ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
C'est un garçon pas comme les autres
Mais moi je l'aime, c'est pas d'ma faute
Même si je sais
Qu'il ne m'aimera jamais

Ziggy, il s'appelle Ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
La première fois que je l'ai vu
Je m'suis jetée sur lui dans la rue
J'lui ai seulement dit
Que j'avais envie de lui

Il était quatre heures du matin
J'étais seule et j'avais besoin
De parler à quelqu'un
Il m'a dit: viens prendre un café
Et on s'est raconté nos vies
On a ri, on a pleuré

Ziggy, il s'appelle Ziggy
C'est mon seul ami
Dans sa tête y'a que d'la musique
Il vend des disques dans une boutique
On dirait qu'il vit
Dans une autre galaxie

Tous les soirs, il m'emmène danser
Dans des endroits très très gais
Où il a des tas d'amis
Oui, je sais, il aime les garçons
Je devrais me faire une raison
Essayer de l'oublier... mais

Ziggy, il s'appelle Ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
C'est un garçon pas comme les autres
Et moi je l'aime, c'est pas d'ma faute
Même si je sais
Qu'il ne m'aimera jamais.



[Trans: Ziggy, his name is Ziggy.
I’m crazy about him.
He’s a boy like no others,
But I love him; it’s not my fault
Even if I know
That he will never love me.

Ziggy, his name is Ziggy.
I’m crazy about him.
The first time I saw him.
I threw myself at him on the street.
I simply told him
That I wanted him.

It was four o’clock in the morning.
I was alone and I needed
To talk to someone
He told me: come on let's go for coffee
And we told each other about our lives.
We laughed, and we cried.

Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
He’s my only friend.
In his head there’s only music.
He sells discs in a boutique.
We could say he’s living in another galaxy.

Every night, he takes me dancing.
To very, very gay places
Where he has lots of friends.
Yes, I know, he likes boys.
I need to realize it's hopeless.
I should try to forget him, , , but

Ziggy, his name is Ziggy.
I’m crazy about him.
He’s a boy like no others,
But I love him; it’s not my fault
Even if I know
That he will never love me.]

DAY of SILENCE 04.25.08

we are silent today...




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come into these arms again...

and lay your body down
the rhythm of this trembling heart
it's beating like a drum
it beats for you,it bleeds for you
it knows not how it sounds
for it is the drum of drums
it is the song of songs

love song for a vampire is the theme song for the movie bram stoker's dracula directed by francis ford coppola. strange to have a love song in a horror film but, if you stop and think about this genre, there is always love involved in some way. if you check out the previous post, it says the same thing.

annie lenox is a genius with words and music. i've loved everything she's done.

J'habite seul avec maman...

Dans un très vieil appartement rue Sarasate
J'ai pour me tenir compagnie
Une tortue deux canaris et une chatte.
comme ils disent


i live alone with my mother
in a very old apartment on Rue Sarasate
for company i have
a turtle, two canaries and a cat.

this is a beautiful song by charles aznavour. i've had the pleasure of seeing him perform it in person a couple of times.

it is a very sad song but one that is filled with hope. it tells of a man who lives on the fringe but is part of the mainstream of boring existence. he is a drag queen.

he speaks of his life as both person and illusion. he deals with the drudgery and the commonness of lives. his lone bits of excitement are on stage when he is someone else and in his dreams -

I ask myself what I have got
Of what I am and what I'm not
What have I given
The answers come from those who make
The rules that some of us must break
Just to keep living
I know my life is not a crime
I'm just a victim of my time
I stand defenceless
Nobody has the right to be
The judge of what is right for me
Tell me if you can
What makes a man a man

i wonder if each of us may be drag queens/kings most of the time...?

click on the post's title to jump to the complete lyrics.

well I'll be damned...

Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full

and today is a full moon. imagine that...

there has been a controversy about carly simon's song you're so vain and just who she is singing about. the most accepted theory is that it refers to warren beatty. no one really knows. she never has said.

diamonds and rust, on the other hand, not only leaves little to the imagination, but joan baez said to whom the song refers - bob dylan. she had a relationship with him and there are some subtle and some not-so-subtle references in the lyrics.

the above version is from a live performance in 1975. i previewed more recent ones but they all seem filled with the wisdom of having age. i like this one because it comes across more to joan baez's possible state of mind at the time.

It's all come back
too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're
offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

life passes...

in a taxi cab ride.

being in high school and college for the span of the 1960's, i was part of the dawning of the age of aquarius. the decade was tumultuous to put it mildly. it was wrought with revolutionary idea after revolutionary idea. it was, i would like to think, a time when democracy was taken to a level that would include everyone no matter their race, religion, orientation, ethnicity, color, gender.... sometimes, i wonder what happened to all of the lofty ideas and promises. there was lots of promise.

of course, today, we have gone somewhat backward. it's all right to say you hate a specific group on the radio with thousands listening. it's common place to watch men and women bleeding from roadside bombs on the television. it's de rigeur to have your thoughts and beliefs questioned, categorized and put down. i guess the world just wasn't ready yet.

besides rock music, one of the bigger musical genres was folk. joan baez, judy collins, pete seeger, fairport convention, peter, paul and mary all were mainstays of the day. i was drawn to folk music because of its storytelling nature. i love songs that tell stories.

one of the great stroytellers was harry chapin. i know that people rue his untimely death and wonder what music would be like if he hadn't died in that crash, but it's what happened and it doesn't really make any difference. he had the ability to take a very insignifacant occurrence and to turn it into a great song. after dance band on the titanic, taxi is my favorite harry chapin.



there is a second part to the story entitled sequel.

when i listen to taxi, i almost feel like i'm in the taxi with him...

maturity...

i thought that richard strauss was a sellout after abandoning music like elektra and salome for going back to very lyrical and romantic opera with der rosenkavelier. my friend, jimmy, said that i would come to appreciate it later. i wouldn't agree with him. he also said something else about it. "it's the old queen's opera.

how true. how true. i saw it for the first time this past year. i did appreciate it very much. the lush music, the phenomenal orchestration and the message in the libretto are remarkable. i saw/heard in it something that was only fleeting in listening to it before this. it suddenly had a meaning both in music and words that i couldn't see when i was younger.

if you're not familiar with the libretto, it is about the marschallin who is realizing that she has gotten older and dalliances with younger men are not as exciting as they once were. she matures. it isn't sad; it's more bittersweet. a realization that life isn't passing you by. you don't have to fight it. you have to be part of it.

as far as the old queen comment jimmy made? he was right. the only thing was that he was 5 months younger than me! and as my friend drew used to say, you can only be a queen if your mother is dead. until then, you're just another princess...!

i now fit into both categories. i love it.

this is a video with renee fleming as the marschallin, frederika von stade as octavian and kathleen battle as sophie. fleming is well noted for her portrayal. a classic soprano who is well loved for playing the marschallin is elizabeth schwartzkopf. enjoy...

you'd think i'd crumble. you'd think i'd lay down and die...

i love this version, as short as it is. i used it at a professional development workship to my teachers as the opening activity of the year to show them that, though it was the beginning of the year, we would still all be there at the end of the school year. they loved it. as a matter of fact, other schools heard about it and borrowed it. as i did from victor navone. he went on to work for pixar. checkout his stuff here: vnog blog.

i will survive is the ultimate breakup song. especially, when you get to the anger part of the loss. you want to throw it in their face to tell them you can live without them. problem is, they already are living without you.

oh, well. here's a version i think you'll have fun with...

is everybody gay? is this the Twilight Zone?