MIKA - KAREN
Karen is twenty years old
Yes, but she has nothing but her age
And
already time is slipping through her fingers
Leaning on the bar, on Martyr
Street
At the 82
Karen makes up a list
She'd like a better life
Than those of her brothers and sisters
Who
simply got in line
Karen says that Paris is big
That another life is waiting for her
She
says she won't let herself be bought
So Karen bets on the red Of her lips and she moves
She says she's worth
more than that
Karen doesn't care
She's free
She's free
Karen says she'll be a star
She has sex with bastards
And says that
someday people will envy her
Karen always drinks to your health
Sings other people's songs
Sings her
dreams and ours, too
Sings at the Bistrot 82
Karen is thirty years old
But she has nothing else to do
Not even
kids
Not even dusting
She lives with her mother
Two streets away from the 82
One day, love
came
He knocked on her door
She shouted for him to get out
Said she didn't
open her door to strangers
Karen says that Paris is big
That another life is waiting for her
She
says she won't let herself be bought
So Karen bets on the red Of her lips and she moves
She says she's worth
more than that
Karen doesn't care
She's free
She's free
Karen says she'll be a star
She has sex with bastards
And says that
someday people will envy her
Karen always drinks to your health
Sings other people's songs
Sings her
dreams and ours, too
Sings at the Bistrot 82
Sings at the Bistrot 82
Sings at the Bistrot 82
Karen is fifty years old
No allowance, no money
She spent everything on
a small white bed
She tells herself that she'll stop and have a drink
At the 82
But
she'll die just before
On her old mouldy mattress
With those goddamned springs
Poking into her
sides
Karen says that life is hard
She's heading straight for the wall
She
says she can't be stopped
So Karen bets on black
Closes her eyes and runs off
Without
understanding why
Karen runs away, she's free
She's free [x3]
Karen says she'll be a star
She has sex with bastards
And says that
someday people will envy her
Karen always drinks to your health
Sings other people's songs
Sings her
dreams and ours, too
Sings at the Bistrot 82
미카의 카렌은 내가 신곡 중에서 가장 좋아하는 노래다. 가사를 보면 한 여자의 삶이 참 기구하지만 그걸 우울하고 음산하게 표현한 것이 아니라 동화같은 음으로 표현했다. 그래서 가사를 모르고 들으면 마냥 동화같다. 라이브가 아니라 CD에 있는 음악을 들으면 뭔 놀이동산에 온 듯 마냥 행복한 느낌이 드는데.. 내용은 반대다. 그런 점에서 미카가 참 좋다. 어떤 것이든 이렇게 자기 방식으로 풀어내니까. 이게 미카의 색깔이기도 하고. 그래서 이 곡이 제일 마음에 든다.
