Alcool [English translation]

This is a story of a fall

Of someone who had power

In a life too rich in position,

But with the stress of the job,

With social obligations,

And a wife with fanatical ambitions,

He set to drinking

And got entangled with a hussy

Who led him to a life lacking moral limits

But the floozy squandered his money

And left him in the gutter

Another drunk in a peddlery, like all the bums.

Alas, what a pity!

Oh, demon alcohol,

I don't have memories, my head is empty

Who would have believed

That from a man I turn into this freak?

Oh, demon alcohol,

I don't have memories, my head is empty.

Lacking control,

Slave to the demon alcohol.

I don't have memories, my head is empty.

Lacking control,

Slave to the demon alcohol.

Another wine or gin

He drank what he could,

Spirits, plum brandy, bottoms up,

Rum, scotch, imported vodka,

As long as he drowns his sorrow in them.

But he was a lost man, when he beat his wife,

The floozy left and found herself another man.

She always urged him on to drink

She led him toward ruin

But when the money went away.

She left him in the ditch.

Alas, what a pity!

Oh, demon alcohol,

I don't have memories, my head is empty.

Who would have believed

That from a man I become this freak

I don't have memories, my head is empty.

Lacking control,

Slave to the demon alcohol.