Je Suis Décadente [English translation]
Je Suis Décadente [English translation]
I am a caretaker in Debussy Street
In my building there's only thinkers
It's me that I am (1) their muse
I smoke a pipe and eat flowers
I am decadent
In the morning when I'm cleaning the stairs
Standing on my bad legs with varicose veins
I think of Sisyphe and his rock
That falls again and again in the abysses
I am decadent
When Ernest wants to make love with me
I tell him "What's the point ?" resentfully
He replied, "Why not,"; what a shame
I married a primitive guy
I am decadent
Sometimes when I feel too weary
I stick a paper on my door
With written on it : the caretaker is anguished
Take your mail by yourself
I am decadent
But the everyday life suicide
It's really not a life (2)
Despair is not sane
You get tired of it and it makes you ugly
To be decadent
To feel that you're nothing here on earth
It leads to all vices
Smoking some marijuana
Is bad for my rheumatism
I am decadent
I'm tired of being depressed
I'm gonna buy a place in the city of Passy
At least here, I can be somebody
And I will trust Life
I'll be deserving
I'll have a role and some obligations
I'll never gonna paint my nails in black again
I'll eat a yogurt every evening
When i'll be a psychiatrist
In Mozart Avenue
- Artist:Brigitte Fontaine