Cupidon s'en fout [English translation]

To change our passing affair into real love

wouldn’t have taken much,

but that day Venus was distracted ,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

Days when he plays at being a nuisance1,

when the courtly arrows he fires at us

are blunted at the tip,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

Dedicating himself to other imbeciles,

he had no time to pay attention to us

with his bow and all his implements,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

We tried, without him, to get things going,

We rolled around on the soft grass, but you

lost your virtue, but not your head,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

While you gave me permission for everything,

your heart, alas, wasn’t in the game;

the sacred fire was conspicuous by its absence,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

We plucked petals on twenty daisies,

twenty times it ended on "she loves me not".

And our poor idyll went under2,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

When you go to the woods to improve your love-life,

young gallants3, may heaven help4 you,

I didn’t have that luck, and I regret it,

there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.

1. like flies buzzing around a carriage2. lit: made a failure3. or: lusty youngsters4. lit: be with

• Artist:Georges Brassens
• Album:Don Juan