Quatre-vingt-quinze pour cent [English translation]

The woman who has within her everything needed

for giving the taste of carnal joys,

the woman who arouses in us so many rude passions,

the women is above all sentimental.

The long walks hand in hand,

the flowers, the love notes, the serenades,

the crimes and foolishness that we commit for her lovely eyes,

they delight her, but...

Ninety five times out of a hundred

the woman is bored while screwing.

Whether she hides it or admits it

it's not every day that she has pleasure in sex1.

The poor sods who are convinced

of the opposite are just deceived.

When it's time for fleshy work

she's often unhappy, the poor dear!

If he doesn't hear her beating heart

her body isn't reacting either.

Except when she loves a man ternderly,

thus always sensitive to his caresses,

always well disposed, inclned towards real emotion,

she's bored stiff without noticing.

Or when she has extermely strong needs,

when she's suffering from chronic nymphomania,

then it's her who gives her lovers

a pretty awful time.

Ninety five times out of a hundred

the woman is bored while screwing.

Whether she hides it or admits it

it's not every day that she has pleasure in sex1.

The poor sods who are convinced

of the opposite are just deceived.

When it's time for fleshy work

she's often unhappy, the poor dear!

If he doesn't hear her beating heart

her body isn't reacting either.

The "again"s, the "that's great"s, the "don't stop"s

which she shrieks to pretend she's getting heavenly joy,

they're just pure charity, the angels' sighs are generally

nothing but white lies.

Their only purpose is to allow her partner

to believe himself an extraordinary lover,

so that the idiotic pretentions cock perched on top

is not disappointed.

Ninety five times out of a hundred

the woman is bored while screwing.

Whether she hides it or admits it

it's not every day that she has pleasure in sex1.

The poor sods who are convinced

of the opposite are just deceived.

When it's time for fleshy work

she's often unhappy, the poor dear!

If he doesn't hear her beating heart

her body isn't reacting either.

I hear comments by the train-load coming in

from those who build castles in the sexy air2 :

"It's because you're hopeless, don't know how to do it right

that she is always keeps her cool."

Maybe, bit you are bothered by the attacks

of these little "have you seen me when I'm fucking" types,

Ladies, while on your backs letting yourselves take pleasure,

sing secretly3...

Ninety five times out of a hundred

the woman is bored while screwing.

Whether she hides it or admits it

it's not every day that she has pleasure in sex1.

The poor sods who are convinced

of the opposite are just deceived.

When it's time for fleshy work

she's often unhappy, the poor dear!

If he doesn't hear her beating heart

her body isn't reacting either.

1. a. b. c. d. literally "that one smooths her buttocks" - an analogy with smoothing her brow2. Cythera was reputedly the birth isle of Venus, and became the ideal site for sexual antics - building castles on Cythera is like building castles in the air but with a definitely sexual slant3. he's suggesting they sing the chorus to reduce the boredom

• Artist:Georges Brassens