Vodka Fraise [English translation]

A strawberry vodka

fools around in my glass.

Stiff on my chair, pinky up,

I watch ice cubes dancing at the bottom.

My dress got crumpled, nothing's the same anymore...

The eyeliner went sour, I feel like a toothache,

I have to get away but my chair catches me.

(chorus: )

And the broad-smiled girls go waltzing by,

radiating love and a happiness that offends me...

And way too emphatic hearts circle around me,

hearts in full flutter...

As for mine...1

A strawberry vodka

looks at me sideways, quite awkwardly,

I gulp inside out and my heart spills on my silver slippers.

I pour some more courage into my cup,

but that's a swindle, people stare at me.

"Stop me, Mister, or I'll catch fire".

(chorus)

A vodka on its rocks concludes my ordeal,

and I swim in breaststroke, I can't see the Earth,

people are so small, it's unsettling seen from here.

I laugh, then I cry, I'm completely lost.

But what might Happiness be?

We'll see that tomorrow, we'll see in a moment,

we'll see next year.

And these broad-smiled girls go waltzing around

radiating still, dancing on my collapse.

These broad-smiled girls go waltzing all around

radiating still still still...

1. Sorry, could not render the rhyme on émoi / et moi

• Artist:Zaza Fournier