Ironic (cover + 1 added verse)

Описание: Although superstition is very silly, it's still fun to play with it as a theme (like the supernatural in horror and fantasy fiction), and so, posting a song about bad luck and coincidences on a Friday 13th seemed the amusing thing to do.

This is obviously the signature song from Alanis Morissette's 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill" (    • Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Official 4K Mu...   ), except that, a few months ago, when Afghan refugee Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot two National Guards, one of them dead, in Washington D.C., and we learned that the guy had been trained as a teenage paramilitary by the CIA to fight the Taliban, whom themselves started, like Al Qaida, as an offshoot of the Mujahideen that the USA also trained, to fight the Soviet, in the 1980s, I felt that there was one missing verse in this song, so I added it at the end in my cover.

Bien que la superstition soit une chose très bête, ça reste une thématique amusante (comme le surnaturel dans la fiction d'horreur et fantastique), donc il m'a semblé amusant de poster une chanson sur la malchance et les coïncidences un vendredi 13.

Il s'agit, bien évidemment, de la chanson emblématique de l'album d'Alanis Morissette "Jagged Little Pill" (1995) (    • Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Official 4K Mu...   ), mais il y a quelques mois, quand le réfugié afghan Rahmanullah Lakanwal a tiré sur deux membres de la Garde Nationale à Washington, tuant l'une d'entre eux, et quand on a ensuite appris qu'il avait reçu un entraînement paramilitaire de la CIA pendant son adolescence, pour combattre les Taliban (qui eux-mêmes, avant d'être des Taliban, ont d'abord été (comme Al Qaida) des Mujahidin entraînés, eux aussi, par les États-Unis, pour combattre les Soviétiques, dans les années 1980), j'ai eu le sentiment qu'il manquait un couplet à cette chanson, donc je l'ai ajouté à la fin, dans ma reprise.

Lyrics / Paroles:

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery, and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

And isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?

[CHORUS:]
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought? It figures

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?"

And isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?

[CHORUS]

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out
When you think everything's gone wrong
And everything blows up in your face

It's a traffic jam when you're already late
A "No smoking" sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?
A little too ironic
And yeah, I really do think

[CHORUS]

And yeah, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
And life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out