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I don't speak French either. A very old song with a simple 80's sound, based on an actual dream.

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JE NE SAIS PAS
1991 Doug Benson
French translation by Greg Benson



There’s a crowd of hungry people
Knocking on my door
Searching through my dreams
For something higher

With arrogance born of long contempt
I open up the blinds
And treat them to a vision of a liar

But their chanting keeps on getting louder
Demanding me to speak
To comfort, justify and praise
The worthless and the meek

Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
But they don’t understand
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
This is all that I am

I don’t know what’s going on
I tell the teeming people on my lawn

There’s a crowd of many monkeys
Camped out on my lawn
Waiting for the miracle banana

A peanut vendors wanders
As the crowd parts before him
Hawking bread crumbs and sardines
As if its manna

And the chant finds new direction
As the vendor finds out soon
But he has no protection
And quickly is consumed

Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Tell me what does it mean?
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Je ne sais pas
Thank god its only a dream

I wake up as the crowd disperses
With shiny silver in their purses

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from Soundable Songs, released April 26, 2020

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