Vidéo : Black Lips – Gentleman

Serait-on sérieux quand on a vingt ans de carrière ? I’m tired of being rude, Ticked off drunk and crude chantent les Black Lips sur Gentleman extrait de leur dernier album country (si, si !) prophétique Black Lips sing… in a World That’s Falling Apart. Enregistré aux mythiques Valentine Recording Studios de Laurel Canyon récemment rouverts (Beach Boys entre autres), ce neuvième album respire la bonne humeur et la simplicité. This old middle finger has grown fat and tired from flicking the bird. Fatigué Cole Alexander à 37 ans ? Sûrement pas sur la scène de l’Epicerie Moderne pour leur première date en France le lundi 29 novembre avec les hollandais de Rats on Rafts.

Black Lips – Gentleman

This old middle finger
Has grown fat and tired from flicking the bird
My mouth has grown cankerous
From spitting dirty words
I feel like a strung out Snuffaluffagus
On the south side wearing Vietnamese cowboy clothes
And I found out the hard way that the pathway to her heart
Is not through her nose

I’m tired of being rude, ticked-off drunk and crude
My woman can’t bring me home to ma ’cause I am the dude
I’m tired of swigging this beer, need to wipe off this ugly sneer
My woman can’t bring me home to pa ’cause I am too weird

And she wants a gentleman
Nothing more, just a gentle friend

It’s getting hard to lie through my teeth
‘Cause they rotted out and they’re not all there
I need my old man to wash my mouth out with soap
And my mother to scrub this nasty hair
Why the fuck is a munchkin on the highway
Jumping out a trash can in Congolese cowboy clothes?
And like a deer transfixed by headlights
The bumper crushed his head while I God damn froze

I’m tired of being rude, ticked-off drunk and crude
My woman can’t bring me home to ma ’cause I am the dude
I’m tired of swigging this beer, need to wipe off this ugly sneer
My woman can’t bring me home to pa ’cause I am too weird
I’m tired of being rude, ticked-off, drunk and crude
My woman can’t bring me home to ma ’cause I am the dude
I’m tired of swigging this beer, need to wipe off this ugly sneer
My woman can’t bring me home to pa ’cause I am too queer

And she wants a gentleman
Nothing more, just gentle friend
Nothing less than a gentleman
Nothing more, just a gentleman
Nothing less than a gentle friend
Nothing more, just a gentleman
Nothing less than a gentleman
Than a gentleman
Than a gentleman, a gentleman
A gentleman, a gentleman

Yahoo
Aw, yeah, aw, yeah
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, yeah, yeah
Just a gentleman
Just a gentle friend
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Just a gentleman
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Yeah, yeah, woah
Just a gentle friend, just a gentle friend
Just a gentleman
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
Yeah, yeah-yeah
Ahh
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah