3ème sexe [English translation]

In the street, charming outfits

Made up like my finacé

Boy, girl, the stupefying allure

Dressed like my finacée

Long hair, dyed-blond hair

All nude in a tin box

He's beautiful, he's well-decried1

The outraged, but I don't care

I don't want to see her naked

I don't want to see him naked

And I like that girl with long hair

And that boy who could say no

And we take each other's hands (x2)

A girl in the masculine sense

A boy in the feminine sense2

And they aren't worth a thing (x2)

And we don't need them anymore (x)

Faces in golden hair

Who... forget their virtue

But isn't it true

That they look like an unsexed

Conquistador once derobed

Who to believe when we see them like that

Exciting all the little girls

Why don't we still believe like that

Isolated in a peninsular body3

Long dresses for all of the boys

Dressed like my financée

And for the girls without counterfeits

Made up like my finacé

The big shock for the most vicious people

It's soon time for the witch hunt

Ambiguous to the depths of the eyes

The return of Jupiter

I don't want to see her naked

I don't want to see him naked.

1. "Beau décrié" literally translates to "beautifully decried"; "beau" is the masculine version of "belle", playing on the theme of gender variance in the song.2. More gendered wordplay: French verbs are conjugated along gendered lines, so this part evokes bodies being gendered and conjugated like words ("au masculin" ("in the masculine sense") and "au féminin ("in the feminine sense")").3. "Presqu'île" ("almost-island") sounds like "presqu'il" ("almost-he"). "Peninsular" preserves this double-entendre pretty well; it preserves this idea of "almost-but-not-quite" (a peninsula being "almost-but-not-quite" an island) and having a masculine-type pun ("peni...").

• Artist:Indochine
• Album:3 (1985)