Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler) - Pink Martini (Acoustic Version)

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This special acoustic trio version of Pink Martini's biggest hit, "Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)", was recorded in the band's practice space in December 2020. The song was written by Pink Martini bandleader Thomas M. Lauderdale and lead singer China Forbes, who are featured here, alongside Pink Martini drummer Andrew Borger, for this "quarantine" performance.

"Sympathique," the title song to the band's 1997 debut album, has remained popular globally, and was nominated for "Song of the Year" at France's Victoires de la Musique Awards (the French equivalent of the Grammys). They lyrics were inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire's poem "Hotel."


LYRICS (FRENCH):

Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage
Le soleil passe son bras par le fenêtre
Les chasseurs à ma porte
Comme les petits soldats
Qui veulent me prendre

Je ne veux pas travailler
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
Et puis je fume

Déjà j’ai connu le parfum de l’amour
Un million de roses
N’embaumeraient pas autant
Maintenant une seule fleur
Dans mes entourages
Me rend malade

Je ne suis pas fier de ça
Vie qui veut me tuer
C’est magnifique
Être sympathique
Mais je ne le connais jamais


ENGLISH TRANSLATION

My room is a cage
The sun streams through the window
The bellhops are at my door
Like little soldiers
Who want to take me away

I don’t want to work
I don’t want to lunch
I want only to forget
And then I smoke

Long ago I knew the smell of love
A million roses
Couldn’t smell as sweet
Now a single flower
In my way
Makes me sick

I am not proud of this
Life that wants to kill me
It’s lovely
To be agreeable and nice and lovely
But I have never known this

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