Vidéo : Jeffrey Lewis – Just Fun

Walk on the wild side. Il est libre, Jeffrey. Depuis The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane en 2001, il chronique son monde qui est aussi le notre et oscille entre le tendre et le mordant. Il faut lire les textes de ce poète punk des trottoirs de New York aussi attentivement que ceux de Leonard Cohen ou du Zim’ pour leur qualité littéraire qui croque comme ses dessins les travers d’une société moribonde. Point de relaxation car « c’est la désintégration, c’est l’annihilation ». Il chante joyeusement notre anxiété comme sur ce Just Fun : « Why even try to cope /And why even have hope / you’re disgusting that’s for sure / So what’s hoping for / Well it’s fun / it’s just fun « . Oubliez votre psy, écoutez Jeffrey, il soignera peut être votre nihilisme.

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage sera en concert à Paris au Supersonic les 5 et 6 mai.

Jeffrey Lewis – Just Fun

Try to see your parents more cuz they’re so weak and old now /
But they just can’t let you live without always being told how /
Then spend time with your child, be responsible and silent/
But you lose it, then you know that you’re a monster and a tyrant /
It’s family so you call because you’re too grown up to fume/
But somehow you’ve hung up and thrown the phone across the room/
Cuz you’re a weakling and a loser, you just never get it right, /
Down from the way you that were raised to how your own home is tonight /
These are the ones you love the best / So why’s it always such a mess /
And what the hell’s it for / Since you’re rotten to the core /
Well, it’s fun / it’s just fun/
Pick out someone friendly who romantically excites you/
Start the hopeful dreaming of “what if he or she likes you” /
know that you could love them and build up a blissful fantasy /
That this is finally something, and how good your lives would be/
But then feel wretched when it’s clear/ It’s just your far-fetched dumb idea /
Remember that you’re lame and ugly / Groan and cry why would they love me/
Why even try to cope /And why even have hope /
you’re disgusting that’s for sure /So what’s hoping for/
Well it’s fun / it’s just fun /
Know your only joy would be a life of creativity /
So never have a moment when you’re actually at liberty/
live a life where friends or relaxation leaves you irking, /
cuz it’s wasting time with nonsense when you know you should be working /
First see your glowing promise as an actor or a painter/
Then get honest you’re a hack who knows their glow is getting fainter /
Then know your life’s been total dirt, and wish you could begin again /
Then crumple one more worthless work and toss it in the bin again/
You hung your head against the desk and suffered in the agony/
Of coming face to face against that stuff that you can never be /
It’s lame and infantile / All this stupid, useless trial /
Frustrations and impatience/ and complete humiliations /
You’re just not fortunate, that’s certain / So why this tortured, screaming burden?/
Well it’s fun / it’s just fun.