| Putain de vie, putain de terre
| Fuck life, fuck earth
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| Maudit soit le jour o j’ai vu l’enfer
| Cursed be the day I saw hell
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| C’tait le sauvage, c’tait mon frre
| He was the savage, he was my brother
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| Les gens le toisaient d’un drle d’air
| People stared at him funny
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| Trente ans de labeur avaient fait monter sa rancoeur
| Thirty years of toil had made his resentment rise
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| Trente ans de chanes, chacun sa veine
| Thirty years of chains, each his vein
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| Voyez l’sauvage qui n’a plus d’ge
| See the savage who is no longer old
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| Il est vid, lourd, trop vieux
| He's empty, heavy, too old
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| Sans dire un mot il encaissait
| Without saying a word he cashed
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| Les mois ont pass, tout a bascul
| Months have passed, everything has changed
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| Les gens de son ge sont humilis
| People his age are humiliated
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| Il faut penser aux pensions venir
| You have to think about future pensions
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| Mais laissez-leur le temps de mourir
| But give them time to die
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| J’essayais de lui expliquer
| I was trying to explain to him
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| Que ces btards taient pays
| That these bastards were country
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| Il dambule dans le vestibule de mes penses
| He wanders through the vestibule of my thoughts
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| Comme un clbard qu’on aurait enrag
| Like a dog that we would have enraged
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| Voyez l’sauvage qui n’a plus d’ge
| See the savage who is no longer old
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| Il est trop vieux, boucl en cage
| He's too old, caged loop
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| J’tais trop jeune, je passe aux aveux
| I was too young, I confess
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| Putain de vie, putain de terre
| Fuck life, fuck earth
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| Il en reviendra de l’enfer
| He'll be back from hell
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| Et dans sa bouche un got amer
| And in his mouth a bitter taste
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| Personne pour le faire taire
| No one to shut him up
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| Je voudrais le serrer trs fort
| I would like to squeeze it real hard
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| Le jour o son me quittera son corps
| The day his body leaves me
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| A cinquante ans il ne prit pas le temps de dire
| At fifty he didn't take the time to say
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| Merde tout le monde rire et mourir
| Shit everybody laugh and die
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| Un jour viendra o j’aurais son ge Mais on ne me mettra pas en cage. | A day will come when I will be his age But I will not be caged. |