La ballade de Jim [English translation]

As she left

Jim is mad

Jimmy drinks gin in his Chrysler

The peninsula, the seafront is dumb

As she left, carreful: Jimm goes round in circles

Still yesterday, his heroine

Hold him so tight saying "Jim"

She was his soother, his deep alcohol

As she left, careful: Jimmy has a screw loose.

Jimmy, you're strong, but you cry

On your Chrysler's leather

There, the sun falls apart into the sea

Jimmy, the girls for the heart

Like alcohol and guns

It's jumping

Falling to the ground

Boum!

For two years, sure, Jim was working hard,

For his starlet to tan in an outboard

With her, he wanted a baby, no kidding

As she left, careful: Jimmy wants to die

Jimmy, you're strong, but you cry

On your Chrysler's leather

There, the sun falls apart into the sea

Jimmy, the girls for the heart

Like alcohol and guns

It's jumping

Falling to the ground

Boum!

Jimmy drives to fast, Jimmy whines

He smells her perfume on the cliff road

The zigzags, the gravel, and, in the evening air

The Chrysler flies in the ferns and the water lilies

Jimmy wakes up in the ideal air

The bright paradise of a hospital room

The nurse is an angel and her eyes are green

As she smiles to him, careful: Jimmy wants her to like him

• Artist:Alain Souchon
• Album:C'est comme vous voulez