Mille ans d'ennui [English translation]

You used to take a mischievous delight

In passing nude back and forth in front of your window

And me, I spied from the house facing you

So young, bubbling over and my life was just kicking in

I still spy on you today from time to time

Seeing you alone and without love

But I think that it’s your daughter that I see there

You can’t still be so beautiful

A thousand years of boredom

A thousand years weeping in the kitchen

Your hands worn-out in the drudgery of the washing up

Tell me if you life must be like that

And I’ll personally go and shoot your husband right now

The bastard who has put lines in your cheeks

And taken away all desire of being beautiful

When you mouth still had a thousand songs

And your heart a thousand schemes

He gathered you up the swine

And he plucked your youthful twenties

He left only the shadow of a sorrowful flower

He left just the shadow of a flower

We were weeping over all that

The other evening along with other woes

Laying out our dead skins on the immortal counter

We who could have offered you a gilded life

To you, the most beautiful girl of any of our young days

You that we see ageing with such a black heart

You used to take a mischievous delight

In passing nude back and forth in front of your window

And me, I spied from the house facing you

So young, bubbling over and my life was just kicking in

I still spy on you today from time to time

Seeing you alone and without love

But I think that it’s your daughter that I see there

You can’t still be so beautiful

• Artist:Cali
• Album:La vie est une truite arc-en-ciel qui nage dans mon cœur