Denis Leary

Denis Leary est un auteur, producteur, chanteur américain d'origine irlandaise. Dans les année 90 il fonde avec sa femme un groupe dont le premier album s'intitule "No cure for cancer". C'est le début de sa reconnaissance artistique et le milieu du cinéma s'intéresse à lui.
Il se contente de petit rôle dans des films tels que "Demolition Man", "La loi du sang" ou prête sa voix dans des films d'animations comme "Small Soldiers" et "Mille et une pattes".
Avec le nouveau millénaire il débarque sur Comédy central et en 2004 il créer la série Rescue Me, les héros du 11 septembre, qui s'attache à décrire le quotidien de pompiers new-yorkais. En plus de cumuler les fonctions de scénariste et de producteur, Denis Leary s'offre le rôle principal.

J'ai découvert Denis Leary d'abord grâce à sa chanson "I'm an asshole", vision cynique du rêve américain.


Puis récemment je l'ai redécouvert en cherchant des dessins animés de Donald Duck sur Youtube et je suis tombé sur une de ses chansons (à Denis Leary, pas Donald Duck) mise en image avec de vieux cartoon de Donald. Un peu a la manière de Nazi AMV, Une musique bien sympa, des morceaux choisis de ce bon vieux Donald, le résultat est très sympathique.
Donald Duck - "Life's gonna suck"


Paroles :

"I'am an Asshole"

Folks, Id like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me, about you
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests
About that special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts
Maybe below the cockles,
Maybe in the sub cockle area,
Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys,
Maybe even in the colon, we dont know

Im just a regular Joe, with a regular job
Im your average white, suburbanized slob
I like football and porno and books about war
I got an average house, with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, my kids and my car
My feet on my table, and a Cuban cigar

But sometimes that just aint enough to keep a man like me interested
(oh no, no way, uh uh)
No I gotta go out and have fun at someone elses expense
(woah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)
I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)
Im an asshole (hes an asshole, such an asshole)

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat
I walk around in the summer time saying "how about this heat?"

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)
Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces
While handicapped people make handicapped faces

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)
Im an asshole (hes a real fucking asshole)

Maybe I shouldnt be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe theyre right when they tell me Im wrong...
Nah

Im an asshole (hes an asshole,what an asshole)
Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

You know what Im gonna do
Im gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible
Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
And all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah)
And Im gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour
Gettin' 1 mile per gallon,
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when Im done sucking down those greeseball burgers
Im gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then Im gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You know why, because weve got the bombs, thats why
2 words, nuclear fucking weapons, OK?
Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square
and it wont make a lick of difference
Because weve got the bombs, OK?
John Wayne's not dead, hes frozen, and as soon as we find a cure for cancer
Were gonna thaw out the duke and hes gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why,
Have you ever taken a cold shower, well multiply that by 15 million times
Thats how pissed off the dukes gonna be!
I'm gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes,
and Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey,
and drive down to Texas and say.....

(Hey! You know, you really are an asshole!)
Why don't you just shut up and sing the song, pal?
Im an asshole (hes an asshole.what an asshole)
Im an asshole (hes the worlds biggest asshole)

A-S-S-H-O-L-E
Everybody
A-S-S-H-O-L-E

"Life's gonna suck"

Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
when you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
it sucks pretty bad right now
Hey, if you know the words, sing along
You're gonna have to mow the lawn,
do the dishes, make your bed
You're gonna have to go to school
until you're seventeen
It's gonna seem about tree times as long as that
You might have to go to war,
shoot a gun, kill a nun
You might have to go to war
when you get out of school
Hey cheer up kids, it gets a lot worse
You're gonna have to deal with stress,
deal with stress, deal with stress
You're gonna be a giant mess
when you get back from the war
Santa Claus does not exist, and there is no Easter Bunny
You'll find out when you grow up that Big Bird isn't funny
Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
when you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
it sucks pretty bad right now
You're gonna end up smoking crack,
on you're back, face the fact
You're gonna end up hooked on smack
and then you're gonna die
And then you're gonna die