Petroleum [English translation]

Come on, it's my party. Come on, everyone's celebrating.

Go ahead and build your castles in the air1

Put the pedal to the metal, I got turbo under the hood, it's great.

Come on, you little thugs, faster! Get a move on!

Sooth my erratic ground water

More and more drilling

If it's not rage, then it's love

Then it's love

As thick as thieves, oil and man2

Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger

The earth is a black hole, a numbskull

Take my gold bars, I'll hand them over

Make us rich, make us zilch, make us billions

And relax on my pavement3

Flirt with the dollar bills

The tide's all decked out in black, all decked out in black

Take all that's left, let them bury me, let them buy me

Yeah, take all that's left, let them finish me off

Go ahead and drill all over the place

Please accept my condolences, I'm dying

As thick as thieves, oil and man

Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger

The earth is a black hole, a numbskull

Take my gold bars, I'll hand them over

So go and fool about,

Go and drill holes, little holes in my pierced heart

Break the sound barrier in your cars, in your planes

Where are your hearts, your hearts? Those sad, apathetic engines.

So kill me good and proper, make sure I suffer

Give me the works, yeah the works

Go ahead and jam me into the line

Then kill me without a motive, without a motive4

Look how your heads turn

When my head falls

Go ahead and dig our graves, our graves

What has mankind done to me?

A hopeless, vile world

As thick as thieves, oil and man

Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger

The earth is a black hole, a numbskull

Sell off my gold bars, I give up

I give up

1. Literally "Make your plans on my comet", relating to the environmentalist message2. Although the title of the song is 'Petroleum', this is not an actual French word. I think that Zazie in fact says 'Pétrole et homme', a play on words3. Can also mean 'Take it out on'4. 'Mobil/e can mean 'mobile' or 'motive'

• Artist:Zazie
• Album:Encore heureux