Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler) - Pink Martini ft. China Forbes | 2021

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From Pink Martini's rainy September 2021 concert at Edgefield, near the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon, this live performance features one of the band's most popular songs, "Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)." The hit title track from Pink Martini's debut album, "Sympathique" is the song (nominated for best song of the year at France's Victoires de la Musique, the French equivalent to the Grammys) that launched the band's career in Europe. An original written by bandleader Thomas Lauderdale and lead singer China Forbes, the song is the band's most recognized tune worldwide, and is *not*, as many think, a cover of an Edith Piaf song! The song's alternate French title, "Je ne veux pas travailler", translates in English to "I don't want to work"; the song was a mantra for French workers' rights movements when it was first heard in France in the late 1990s. The lyrics were inspired by the poem "Hotel" by Guillaume Apollinaire.

Song credits and lyrics:

"Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)"
Music and lyrics by China Forbes and Thomas M. Lauderdale
Published by Wow and Dazzle Music (BMI) and Thomas M. Lauderdale Music (ASCAP)

Ma chambre à 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
Sympathique 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
LINEUP:

Thomas M. Lauderdale, piano and bandleader
China Forbes, lead vocals
Phil Baker, upright bass
Dan Faehnle, guitar
Nicholas Crosa, violin
Thomas Barber, trumpet
Robert Taylor, trombone
Andrew Borger, drums
Brian Davis, percussion
Miguel Bernal, percussion
Timothy Nishimoto, percussion
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