| Aux chanteurs on d’mande souvent
| We often ask singers
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| Est-ce que vous chantez tout l’temps
| Do you sing all the time
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| Du v? | From v? |
| Ridique
| Ridiculous
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| Est-ce que c’est vot' vie votre histoire
| Is it your life your story
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| Ou bien du vent des bobards
| Or the wind of lies
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| C’est pourquoi faire pour le fric
| That's why doing for the money
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| Ou est-ce autobiographique?
| Or is it autobiographical?
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| Collez donc le mot amour
| So paste the word love
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| A topinambour
| Jerusalem artichoke
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| Pas toujours toujours? | Not always always? |
| Toujours
| Still
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| Et trouvez autre chose
| And find something else
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| Que vos bla-blas a l’eau d’rose
| That your bla-blas has rose water
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| C’qui suit je l’this
| What follows I this
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| C’est c’que j’vis
| That's what I live
|
| Et tant pis si j' l’ai d? | And too bad if I have to? |
| J? | I |
| Dit
| Said
|
| Si? | Yes? |
| A vous pla? | Are you please? |
| T
| T
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| J’peux l' dire en anglais
| I can say it in English
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| My woman is gone
| My woman is gone
|
| My woman is gone
| My woman is gone
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| Oh comme ces mots sonnent
| Oh how these words sound
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| Le tonnerre qui tonne
| The thunder that thunders
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| Les murs qui are? | The walls that are? |
| Sonnent
| ring
|
| Chantent avec moi
| sing with me
|
| My woman is gone gone gone…
| My woman is gone gone…
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| J’peux trouver des mots pourtant
| I can find words though
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| Un peu diff? | A little diff? |
| Rents d’avant
| Front rents
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| Oui mais le hic
| Yes but the catch
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| C’est qu’il y a toujours le m? | Is there always the m? |
| Me th? | Me th? |
| Me La rime est facile, les je t’aime
| Me The rhyme is easy, the I love you
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| Toujours chez moi c’est typique
| Always at home, it's typical
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| Un ton m? | A tone m? |
| Lodramatique
| Lodramatic
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| J’peux coller le mot amour
| I can paste the word love
|
| A topinambour
| Jerusalem artichoke
|
| ? | ? |
| A chang’ra pas la nuit en jour
| A not change the night into day
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| Ce s’ra la m? | This will be the m? |
| Me chose
| Me thing
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| La m? | The m? |
| Me histoire? | My story? |
| L’eau d’rose
| rose water
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| C’qui suit je l’this
| What follows I this
|
| C’est c’que j’vis
| That's what I live
|
| Et tant pis si j’lai d? | And too bad if I have to? |
| J? | I |
| Dit
| Said
|
| Si? | Yes? |
| A vous pla? | Are you please? |
| T
| T
|
| J’peux l’dire en anglais
| I can say it in English
|
| My woman is gone
| My woman is gone
|
| My woman is gone
| My woman is gone
|
| Oh comme ces mots sonnent
| Oh how these words sound
|
| Le tonnerre qui tonne
| The thunder that thunders
|
| Les murs qui are? | The walls that are? |
| Sonnent
| ring
|
| Chantent avec moi
| sing with me
|
| My woman is gone
| My woman is gone
|
| Tout l’monde et personne
| Everyone and no one
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| L’eau qui tourbillonne
| The swirling water
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| Chantent avec moi
| sing with me
|
| My woman is gone. | My woman is gone. |
| Gone, gone,
| Gone, gone,
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| My woman is gone, gone, gone
| My woman is gone, gone, gone
|
| (Ad lib.) | (Ad lib.) |