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Ton Lebbink - Vol Gas Лирицс транслатион то енглисх


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Full Throttle


He sits on the sidewalk with an ice-lolly stick
Scratching the ground-up poodle meat out of the grooves of his radial tyres
Yes! He's careful with his Polo!
She rolls her hips and coos
Shall we walk or go by foot?
No dear, he says disgruntled
We're going to Gilze-Rije1
Full throttle
 
On the lies lies a toddler who
Whilst fleeing from mother
Scratches
Upon Mercedes-diesel
Grim boys, those taxi drivers
Full throttle
 
The toddler [?]
The Mercedes not
That'll be brawling!
Full throttle
 
During the winter, stealing petrol with cold claws
Stealing the winter
Sobbing, tears, sadness
Transport
Full throttle
 
Thirty-seven years ago
Born in Amsterdam, I
Full throttle
Joined the resistance
I smuggled ivory to England
Phyllis, she was called
I, Civillis, never again2
I never play billiards no more
I...
Full throttle
 
Upturned collar
White, white is shirt
And there his light-metal prosthetic already shines
Behind retreated lips
Suspenders for your life
 
Then simply, then simply!
Then simply bankrupt, sighs the judge in resting
Full throttle
 
Upturned collar
I'm too whacky today
Just walking through town stamping my feet
With Boney-M, live, on TV
Nine-nine-nine
Six-six-six
The Devil's number
That's a letdown, oh yes!
Poor-as-steel's my name
Full throttle
 
A cock in the city of lights
A phallus at Philips
An erection in Eindhoven
Full throttle
Throttle
 
There walks a couple, retired
There a punk on rollerblades
There a slave in a crawling harness
A petty thief feeds pigeons at Dam Square3
Pedestrians, cars, waiting for their colour
Then nought but silence!
 
Pigeons
Crumbs
Thieves!
Bitterly the vehicular fleet lays silent
Full throttle
 
The door for prams
And the disabled is locked
At the Bijenkorf4
I however do find one on the second5:
A pram
The mother has utilised the crowding
Off she's gone
Full throttle
 
How much does that child cost?
I'll need to ask, sir
Says the acne-ridden saleswoman
Full throttle
Throttle
 
It's raining
It pipes rain-stalks
It steals the drainpipes
It's raining pipe stems6
Full throttle
 
Full throttle
Full throttle
Full throttle
Throttle
 
  • 1. Town in North-Brabant. The latter name of the town sounds like 'rijden' (to drive). The sentence can be interpreted as 'We're going to drive to Gilze', or simply as 'We're going to Gilze-Rije'.
  • 2. Civillis refers to Julius Civillis, leader of the Batavian revolts against Roman overlordship. The line can be interpreted as 'I, Civillis' or 'I see Phyllis' in both Dutch and English, thus leading to the double translation of either 'I [was called] Civillis - Never again' or 'I don't see Phyllis anymore'.
  • 3. Translation loses irony: A 'kruimeldief' (lit.: crumbs-thief) translates as petty thief. The irony lies in him supposedly stealing crumbs to get by, yet feeding them to the pigeons instead.
  • 4. Dutch shopping emporium.
  • 5. Second storey
  • 6. Whilst the idiom translates as 'It's raining cats and dogs', the rhyming here hinges on swapping the individual bits of the idiom around, hence why it's translated literally.

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If children would rule the world
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The girls of Venus
The girls of Venus are infected by Venereal Diseases
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But I am the chairman
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you have no reason
If I told you that the result is positive, really
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You are all the porn I need
You are all the porn I need
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Now I'm taking this sick word
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As news, really
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You are all the porn I need
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Saying: 'It's crazy not to carry this cross
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Even though I don't tell you





If I make it to stay quiet this time
and enjoy this moment with nothing that interrupts us
If nobody's looking for us
I can stand up on you
You keep so stable when doubts come to me
 

Where are you
I think about what you must be doing
I set a time-out every time
you leave
I can pretend I entertain myself
and I don't miss you
 

I love you so much and I know
sometimes I forget
but I can't lose
what life gives me
And I don't know what to answer
when you don't look at me
but you know I'm ok
Even though I don't tell you
 

You float on the room where you're in
And I'm trying to catch you, though you say that in every one of your lives,
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Where are you
I think about what you must be doing
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you leave
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and I don't miss you
 

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sometimes I forget
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Even though I don't tell you
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even though everything's over
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