Dans mon HLM [English translation]

On the ground floor , in my HLM

There's a kind of a stupid spy

That monitors the entrances

And shoots at anything that moves

Especially if it's a tanned one

He spends his nights in the wine cellars

With his Beretta

He's tracking the kids that are stealing

Wine to the bourgeois .

He's recreating the Indochine War

In his tiny ass-hole life.

His wife can't get out of the kitchen

Because if she does , he would beat her .

He's so stupidly crazy

That even the French Foreign Legion

Ended up chucking him out .

That tells you how fucking stupid he is !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

On the first floor , in my HLM

There's the young dynamic yuppie

With his lounge suit of alpaca fibre

The one who paid 200 000 bucks

For his apartment of 2 rooms and a balcony.

He valiantly worked for 20 years

To arrive here.

Now he's happy

But he tells he will soon leave out .

Yet , anyway he can't

He still has to pay for

His dishwasher , his TV-screen

And the sawdust for the bedding of his cats

Because of course ,

This sweet centrist taxpayer,

Doesn't like children,

To tell you how much he is dull !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

On the second floor, in my HLM

There's a tribe of junkies

Who are 6 to 8 to live

In a 60 square meters apartment

Where there is always music .

They are the rioters of May 68

One of them is unemployed

One of them is a teacher,

And one of them is my sister.

They are living without worries

With mattresses on the floor

And the neighbours are furious !

They make a hell of a noise ,

They never pay the rent

When the court bailiffs are there

They write a letter to the Libération newspaper

To tell you how much they are cools !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

On the third floor , in my HLM

There's this hell of a bitch

The one who is working in the advertising market

The winter in Avoriaz

The summer at the Club Med .

Like all the silly discolored bitches ,

She has her own Mini Cooper,

She's exciting all the neighbourhood

When she's out walking her Spaniel .

In feminist demonstrations

She's at the forefront

But she doesn't want children

Because it's accelerating the ageing process .

It gives you a saggy arse

And it wrinkles the skin of your head

She had read it in the Express newspaper

To tell you how much she is reading !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

On the fourth floor, in my HLM

There is the one that the neighbours

Call " The Communist " ,

While it doesn't suit him he says ,

According to him , he's a trotskyist !

I've never really understood

The fundamental difference ,

He said he could explain it to me

But it would takes hours and hours .

Since he made a petition ,

3 years ago for the Chile

All the building inhabitants suspect him

For each new graffiti .

While in fact the " Death to the assholes "

In the stairwell

Had been written by me

To tell you how much I am right !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

And there is also , in my HLM

A new romantic

And a veteran

A hoodlum and a cop

Who wanders in sweatpants .

He's doing his jogging everyday

With its German shepherd dog

From the basements to the parking lots

It is so rewarding ...

When I am tired of all these brave people

I am going to the 8th floor,

To build for an instant ,

With my girlfriend Germaine,

A world full of children.

And when the day breaks ,

We left believing in it ,

To tell you how much we dream !

For fuck's sake , my HLM is so lame

And the girl of the 8th floor is liking hashish !

• Artist:Renaud
• Album:Marche à l'ombre (1980)