J'ai oublié d'être bête [English translation]

I forgot to be foolish

It got out of my head

Alas! I don’t know how

To make my self heard from now

I lost my assurance

At the same time capacity

Sleep and my friends

And North and the Midi

If from Cambrai my foolishness

Came only by covetousness

One young scoundrel

Already got his teeth broken

I would’ve understood, but mine

Is neither mint nor vervain

Nor licorice, you see

Nor raspberry nor cashew

But I won’t file a claim

To anyone, or attack

These are the tears that make

The prisons’ humidity

I’ll turn, just like Ulysse

To the police sirens

A deaf ear

Just the time to worry people

I’ll go down into the high

Making sure that because of me

Because I lost a lot there

They get bored to death

Fearless to scratch my lips

On the goldsmiths jewerlies

I’ll come to kiss your hands

You, who took a good from me

You who, by treachery

Relieved me from my foolishness

Need to clear things up

And your face too

Come on, I can see that you’re not

Half a fool (or half a beast litteraly)

Since you understood me

Since you understood me

• Artist:Serge Gainsbourg