Monopolis [English translation]

From New York to Tokyo,

everything is the same everywhere.

We take the same subway

to reach the same suburbs.

Everybody falling in line

The neon lights replace

sunlight at night,

and listening to the same radios

we all dance to the same tunes

The day is grey, the night is blue.

In the cities of the year 2000,

life will be much easier.

We'll all have a number on our back

and a star tatooed on our skin.

We'll happily follow the herd,

in the cities of the year 2000.

Mirabelle1 or Roissy2

everything is the same everywhere,

all around the earth.

We take the same charter flights

to go where the sky is a deeper blue.

When we won't be able

to find sunlight anymore,

we'll set off

to Mars or Jupiter,

everybody falling in line.

In the cities of the year 2000,

life will be much easier.

We'll all have a number on our back

and a star tatooed on our skin.

We'll happily follow the herd,

in the cities of the year 2000.

Monopolis

There will be no more stangers

We'll all be stangers.

Will we still walk hand in hand

like in 1980?

When our children will be twenty,

we will be from another time,

the time before Monopolis.

I picture myself sitting on a bench,

all alone in the middle of Monopolis.

1. Don't really know what city that is supposed to be. Maybe Mirable in Quebec?2. The small town where Paris-Charles de Gaulle international airport is located. The name could designate the town or the airport.

• Artist:France Gall
• Album:Starmania (1978)