Tu te laisses aller [English translation]

It’s funny how funny you are to look at

You’re there, you wait, you're sulking

And I feel like sneering

It’s the alcohol that gets to my head

All the alcohol that I took this evening

So that I could draw the courage

To admit that I have had it

with you and your old wives’ tales

with your body that leaves me virtuous

and takes away all of my hopes

I’ve had enough I have to tell you

You irritate me, you tyrannize me

I endure your dirty character

I don't dare to tell you you exaggerate

Yes, you exaggerate, you know it now

At times, I would strangle you

God you have changed in five years

You let yourself go, you let yourself go

Ah! you're beautiful to look at

your sagged stockings on your shoes

With your old nightgown badly closed

And your curling pins what an elegance

I ask myself every day

How did you do to please me

How could I ever made love to you

Give up my whole life for you

That way you look like your mother

Who has nothing to inspire love

In front of my friends what a disaster

You contradict me, cut me short

With your venom and your petulance

You’d make the mountains fight

Ah! I drew the first prize

The day that I met you

If you kept quiet, ‘t would be too nice

You let yourself go, you let yourself go

You are a brute and a tyrant

You have no heart and no soul

Nevertheless I often think

That in spite of everything you’re still my wife

If you would make an effort

Everything could fall back into place

To slim down practice some sport

Make yourself up in the mirror

Put a smile on your face

Make up your heart and your body

Instead of thinking how I detest you

And avoiding me like the plague

Try to be nice

Become that little girl again

Who gave me so much happiness

And sometimes like in the past

I would love that close to my heart

You let yourself go, you let yourself go

• Artist:Charles Aznavour