Putain de toi [English translation]

Back in those days I was a daydreamer1.

Earthly love was a forbiddeen fruit

I sowed violets and sang for free

and befriended all kinds of alley cats.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch2

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

One rainy evening there's a knock on my door

I rush to open it, expecting yet another tomcat,

but it was a goddamned cute kitty the storm had brought me

It was you, it was you, it was you

Ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, wretched me

With your pistache-green slit eyes,

you laid your velvet paw upon my heart.

Luckily for me you had no whiskers

and your modesty was not overweight.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

You took your blazing twenties

all around my bohemian life.

And you were the show runner

for me, my cats, my flowers and my poems.

But time goes as a blind reaper.

Our love was only just ripening and already

you burned my songs and spat on my violets

and were mean to my cats.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

And to top it all, you wretched bitch

since the larder was empty

you shamelessly ran to the butcher

and jumped in his bed for a bit of meat

Ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah.

That was it, you had gone too far.

Giving up earthly fickle love,

I went back to my daydreams with my cuckold's pride3,

my songs and my flowers and my cats.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah...

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

Ah, ah, ah, ah.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, you wretched bitch

Ah, ah, ah, ah, poor wretched me

1. based on the expression "être dans la lune" (to be on the moon) : to be daydreaming, distracted. Here he says "I lived on the moon"2. well, obviously the French play on "de toi / de moi" works better, but that's the best I could think of in English3. in France a cuckold is supposed to wear horns on his forehead

• Artist:Olivia Ruiz