La Folie [English translation]

Good evening

Your car doesn't seem to have a passenger

Can you, do you want to take me

If it's not too much trouble?

My boots won't echo too much in your corridor

No noise with my goodbyes

No lost moments for us

Waiting for an uncertain farewell

Because I'm mad

Yes, I'm mad

Yes, it's madness (4x)

He was once a student

Who strongly wanted, like in literature,

His girlfriend, she was so sweet

That he could almost eat her

Rejecting all vices

Warding off all evils

Destroying all beauty

Who, besides, had never been his accomplices

Because he was mad

He was mad

Yes, it's madness (4x)

And if, sometimes, we make confessions

Who to tell them to?

Even the good lord has let us down

Another place, another life

Ah yes, it's another story

But who to tell it all to?

In the shadows of the night?

In the early morning, in the grey hours

How many crimes have been committed?

Against lies and so-called laws of the heart

How many are there because of madness?

Because they're mad

They're mad

Yes, it's madness (4x)

Madness (4x)

• Artist:The Stranglers
• Album:La Folie (1981)