Beautiful inertia, where have you gone? I'm the gentleman with a rose in my buttonhole, I come clean and perfumed.
Inertia, you soften my extremities. Inertia, I will obey you; you set the speed.
The farm is at the foot of the massif, I'm not difficult to find.
Ask for the sharp charisma, trawl the cultural lagoons.
Inertia, I'm waiting for the appointed day when your song will trill above the voices of the world.
Inertia, call to order, and if I have the notion to make suggestions, you can gag me.
Lifted up to the height of the wall, young men spy on the old men's dinner
and they hope that they become good men, and I hope they all do, I hope they all become exemplary citizens!
I have a neighbour to whom I gave the same monologue a few days ago.
I suppose that in the beginning I was trying to seduce her, but never with too much conviction.
There are days when I get oranges from I don't know which village
I put them on a plate and insist that she stay a while.
But she always stays on the landing.
Inertia, inject me with anaesthesia, come on, don't you see that I've prepared everything, here's my arm.
Inertia, on the subject of quantity, give me a dose that would be sufficient to knock out elephants.
I like to go out walking in the afternoon,
but the high school timetable can be a trap.
Yesterday a little gang at the traffic light recognised me
-as the signal turned green, I pretended that I didn't see them-.
I frequent streets to remember how I once felt
-I avoid others lest I cross paths with my former in-laws-
and I think about myself, and about the album, and about friends that I haven't seen in some time
and, returning home, I make a sound that nobody will hear
I take the lift up and I make myself dinner
hey, beautiful Inertia, where have you gone?
I have a neighbour, that, frankly, I don't think will pass the audition.
I suppose that in the beginning I was trying to seduce her, but never with too much conviction.
There are days when I get oranges from I don't know which village
I put them on a plate and insist that she stay a while.
But she always stays on the landing.
For fuck's sake, Inertia, come on, just by looking at me you ought to realise
just how long I've been waiting here.
I want a dose that would knock out elephants.
Inject it into my immaculate arm.
I have a neighbour to whom I gave the same monologue a few days ago...