| Je savais bien bébé que c'était pas simple
| I knew baby it wasn't easy
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| Que j'étais couard c’est vrai et plein d’absinthe
| That I was cowardly it's true and full of absinthe
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| Qu’il était tard je sais quand vint ta plainte
| It was late I know when your complaint came
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| Mais qu'à moi comparée t'étais une sainte
| But compared to me you were a saint
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| Je savais bien bébé que t'étais trop belle
| I knew baby you were too beautiful
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| Lorsque tu t’effeuillais dans la nuit pale
| When you were stripping in the pale night
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| Jaloux du moindre pd, du moindre cheval
| Jealous of the least pd, the least horse
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| Que tu montais bébé j’avais trop mal
| That you were riding baby I was in too much pain
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| Kétamine et cachets de gardénal
| Ketamine and Gardenal Pills
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| Je te mens pas bébé je te trouvais sale
| I don't lie to you baby I thought you were dirty
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| J'étais noue, j’avais un goût de sel
| I was knotted, I tasted like salt
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| Le bonheur s’use c’est vrai des qu’on l’appelle
| Happiness wears out it's true when you call it
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| Je savais bien bébé que tu étais d'équerre
| I knew baby you were square
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| Et de la tête aux pieds black et decker
| And head to toe black and decker
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| Tu avais la flamme sacrée et des converses
| You had the sacred flame and converses
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| Tu étais ma femme rêvée, ma fille de perse
| You were my dream wife, my Persian girl
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| J’avais sans doute trop d’amour en moi
| I probably had too much love in me
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| Tu étais sans doute beaucoup trop belle pour moi
| You were probably way too beautiful for me
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| J'étais jaloux de tout
| I was jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| Je savais bien bébé que tu étais fatale
| I knew baby you were fatal
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| Que tu allais déclencher l’assaut final
| That you would unleash the final assault
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| J’aurais du m'épancher passer à table
| I should have poured out going to the table
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| Mais j'étais dépassé et lamentable
| But I was overwhelmed and pathetic
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| J’ai rien compris bébé, j’ai vu le mal
| I didn't get it baby, I saw the bad
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| Partout de tous cotés, lu ton journal
| Everywhere on all sides, read your newspaper
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| Partout j’avais des points de côtés, des sueurs froides
| Everywhere I had side stitches, cold sweats
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| Sitôt qu’un étranger semblait affable
| As soon as a stranger seemed friendly
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| Je me sentais laid, ouais, et incurable
| I felt ugly, yeah, and incurable
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| Que je sois sobre, grisé, cuit comme un râble
| That I'm sober, drunk, cooked like a saddle
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| Et j'étais comme froisse et comme maussade
| And I was like crumpled and sullen
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| Sitôt que tu parlais aux autres à table
| As soon as you were talking to the others at the table
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| Je savais bien bébé que c'était la guerre
| I knew baby it was war
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| Tu.devais moins m’aimer, moins que naguère
| You must have loved me less, less than before
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| Tu étais la plus belle des filles de la terre
| You were the most beautiful girl on earth
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| Tu oublieras mes baisers, mais pas l’enfer
| You will forget my kisses, but hell not
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| J’avais sans doute trop d’amour en moi
| I probably had too much love in me
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| Tu étais sans doute beaucoup trop belle pour moi
| You were probably way too beautiful for me
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| J'étais jaloux de tout
| I was jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| J'étais jaloux de tout
| I was jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| Tu disais souvent
| You often said
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| Je vais te perdre un jour
| I will lose you one day
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| Je répondais tout le temps
| I answered all the time
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| Tu dis n’importe quoi comme toujours
| You talk nonsense like always
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| Tu disais parfois
| you sometimes said
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| Tu dis que du vent
| You say wind
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| Je répondais toujours
| I always answered
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| Tu dis n’importe quoi comme souvent
| You say anything as often
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| Avant
| Before
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| Avant
| Before
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| Tu disais aussi
| You also said
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| Tu vas t’en aller
| You will go away
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| Je répondais jamais
| I never answered
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| Toi, tu ne m’en voulais jamais
| You, you never blamed me
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| Puis tu disais mon grand
| Then you said big boy
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| Refais-moi l’amour
| Make love to me again
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| Je répondais jamais vraiment
| I never really answered
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| Mais on refaisait l’amour souvent
| But we made love often
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| Avant
| Before
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| Je savais bien bébé que c'était morose
| I knew baby it was gloomy
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| Qu’on avait sous le pied comme une rose
| That we had underfoot like a rose
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| Qu’on faisait moins c’est vrai la chose
| That we did less it's true the thing
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| Que j’avais tant laissé, dés ecchymoses
| That I had left so much, bruises
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| Tu auras compris bébé que je m’en veux
| You will have understood baby that I blame myself
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| Qu’en plus de tout gâcher, j’ai donné peu
| That in addition to ruining everything, I gave little
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| J’avais un pull rayé hedi slimane
| I had a hedi slimane striped sweater
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| Tu étais ma vie rêvée, ma première dame
| You were my dream life, my first lady
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| J'étais jaloux de tout
| I was jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| Jaloux de tout
| Jealous of everything
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| J'étais jaloux de tout
| I was jealous of everything
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| J’avais sans doute trop d’amour en moi
| I probably had too much love in me
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| J'étais jaloux de tout | I was jealous of everything |