Après moi le déluge [English translation]

I'm waiting while you're elaborating

on another subject

than me.

I'm expecting you, I'm losing you

like one would an object, a year

and a month.

I hear you're falling

for a taller, more handsome guy.

Why is that?

I'm listening, at great loss,

your tales of the warmth

you find in his arms.

I know I'm the one who left you,

now who do you think you are,

thinking that grass will grow back

after I left?

I want people to be unhappy

after I'm gone.

I know I'm the one who left you,

now who do you think you are?

Neither Noah nor shelter,

Flood and rains may come

after I'm gone, for all I care1

Every man for himself

and this is it.

I'm frolicking about, you don't care.

Could you drop any lower

than this?

I seek, you hide2

We've been playing that game

long enough already.

I'm calling, you're spelling

leave me

A-L-O-N-E.

I'm begging, you're deeply regretting

to have given in, just once

and never again.

I know I'm the one who left you,

now who do you think you are,

thinking that grass will grow back

after I left?

I want people to be unhappy

after I'm gone.

Neither Noah nor shelter,

Damn the consequences

Neither Noah nor shelter,

Damn the consequences

I know I'm the one who left you,

now who do you think you are,

thinking that grass will grow back

after I left?

I want people to be unhappy

after I'm gone.

Neither Noah nor shelter,

Damn the consequences

Damn the consequences

Damn the consequences

Damn the consequences

1. "après moi le déluge" is idiomatic ("after me, the Flood", i.e. "the (biblical) Flood might come after I'm gone, for all I care". Basically: "damn the consequences" :)2. allusion to the "chat perché" child game. One player is the "cat" and tries to catch the other players. They have to climb on something to save themselves before the cat gets them. If the cat catches a player, the victim becomes the new cat. If the player escapes, the cat has to seek another "prey"