L'homme en rouge [English translation]

The tree is switched off

The baubles fall down and smash as they go ooooh

The parents are asleep, unconcerned

It's dark inside and white outside

I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm scared, I'm crying, I am alone.

There is no sun in my winter

The man in red has got nothing for me

No presents in the backpack

The man in red won't come for me

I am nobody, I don't exist

The man in red won't come for me

He doesn't care about people like me

The man in red does not know me

Don't they tell me that I deserved to be ignored that much,

that the filthy spoiled kids next door are much, so much better than I am

They dance, they sing and taunt me as they go oooh

I am alone in a world that spins without me

There is no sun in my destitution

The man in red does not warm me

There is no light in my tunnel

The man in red won't switch it on

There are no evening lies anymore

The man in red won't come for me

Everybody deserves some happiness

Everybody, then why not me?

There is no sun in my wasteland

it won't run across my desert

I'm crying rather unquiet rivers1

that will never dry up

I am alone in this shroud night

Not even a measly broken toy

Next year it will be the same

The man in red, he doesn't exist

1. allusion to the expression "la vie est un long fleuve tranquille" (life is a long quiet river), also the title of a cult French movie that deals (in an hillarious way) with various social class issues

• Artist:Michel Polnareff