Sympathique [Je ne veux pas travailler] [English translation]

My room is in the form of a cage

The sunlight passes though the window

The bellhops at my door

Like little soldiers

That want to take me

I don't want to work

I don't want to have lunch

I only want to forget it

And then I smoke

Already, I understood the perfume of love

A million roses wouldn't smell so sweet (1)

Now a single flower in my enclosures

Drives me crazy

I don't want to work

I don't want to have lunch

I only want to forget it

And then I smoke

I am not proud of this life

That wants to kill me

It's magnificent to be nice (2)

But I have never understood it

I don't want to work

No

I don't want to have lunch

I only want to forget it

And then I smoke

I am not proud of that life

That wants to kill me

It's magnificent to be nice

But I have never understood it

I don't want to work

No

I don't want to have lunch

I only want to forget it

And then I smoke

• Artist:Pink Martini
• Album:Sympathique (1997)