Lyrics of Granine d'ananar - Léo Ferré

Granine d'ananar (original)

La vie m’a doubl, c’est pas rgulier
Pour un pauv' lzard qui vit par hasard
Dans la socit mais la socit, faut pas s’en mler
J’suis un type part, une graine d’ananar
On m’dit qu’j’ai pouss en d’ssous d’un gibet
O mon grand-papa balanait dj Avec un collier, un collier tress de chanvre, il tait
Un foutu foulard gueule d’ananar
J’avais des copains qui mangeaient mon pain
Car le pain, c’est fait pour tre partag
Dans notre socit, c’est pas moi qui l’dis mais c’est Jsus-Christ
Un foutu bavard gueule d’ananar
Si j’avais des sous, on m’d’manderait «O Les as-tu gagns, sans avoir trim
Pour la socit?»
Mais comme j’en ai pas, faut lui dire pourquoi
C’est jamais peinard, la graine d’ananar
On m’dit qu’c’est fini, j’vous l’dit comme on l’dit
Et qu’on me pendra au nom de la loi
Et d’la socit, d’la belle socit qui s’met s’mler
De mettre au rancart la graine d’ananar
Potence d’oubli, l’oiseau fait son nid
Messieurs les corbeaux passeront ma peau
Comme l’tamis mais auparavant, j’aurai comme le vent
Sem quelque part ma graine d’ananar.

(translation)

Life passed me by, it's not regular
For a poor lizard who lives by chance
In society but society, don't get involved
I'm a part guy, a pineapple seed
They tell me that I pushed under a gibbet
O my grandpa was already swinging With a necklace, a braided hemp necklace, he was
A damn pineapple scarf
I had friends who ate my bread
Because bread is made to be shared
In our society, it's not me who says it but it's Jesus Christ
A damn talkative pineapple mouth
If I had money, they would ask me "Where did you earn them, without having trimmed
For society?"
But since I don't have any, you have to tell him why
It's never cushy, the pineapple seed
They tell me it's over, I tell you as they say
And hang me in the name of the law
And of the society, of the beautiful society which gets involved
To discard the pineapple seed
Gallows of oblivion, the bird makes its nest
Gentlemen crows will pass my skin
Like the sieve but before, I will have like the wind
Sow my pineapple seed somewhere.