Des p'tits sous [English translation]

Bloody neurons in our brains, disappearing from day to day.

In the bloody woods, the bloody deals of bloody bosses in their meeting rooms.

Bloody pennies that get hidden, bloody pennies hidden by bloody people, bloody things we decide by tossing a coin.

The bloody kids who are going to make bellies swell, the bloody cashiers in the carrefours1.

The bloody problems of recession, the bloody ministers in gaol.

The bloody cash to pay your rent, the bloody cash for the community.

Type, type on the keyboards from funeral parlours to schoolyards

you have to see how the bloody kids are dressed, there are labels on their legs.

Bloody insects on the flowers, bloody bugs in the computer.

Bloody pennies for water, bloody pennies for air, bloody pennies to pollute the atmosphere.

Go on, go on bloody children, bloody brats, bloody cunts.

Bloody pennies to sell ourselves to the highest bidder.

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants bloody pennies?

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, we want bloody pennies, go on!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants bloody pennies? Me, me!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, we want bloody pennies.

In the rice paddies the bloody Chinese, the planet's got a hangover.

In the factories, on the machines, while the people wear themselves out.

Type, type on the keyboards, in the matrix you get raped, yes, trading what's left of their humanity against a karma in satin.

The drawing rooms resisters, dandies and well-to-do, carrying the sweat of the of all those other fighters against windmills.

The sons of a bitch, sons of kings, sons of anything, looking after their own,

all chasing after money, after bloody tips, after big banknotes.

The bloody con tricks we've been swindled with, bloody types who are in on the stockmarkets, the bloody pennies, for sure, that will make more bloody pennies, just as the stupidity makes more stupidity.

Your bloody cheque at the end of the month, no, that doesn't grow like the cynicism in the smiles of the cheating hypocrital bloody scumbags2 in the (political) parties.

Bloody problems of recession, bloody ministers in gaol.

Bloody pennies that get hidden, bloody pennies that bloody people hide, bloody things we decide by tossing a coin.

Bloody pennies that make the fat ones fatter, that make the bloody poor still poorer so that the bloody pauper has no other option, poor guy, but to make more bloody paupers, yes yes!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants some bloody pennies?

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, we want bloody pennies, go on!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants bloody pennies? Me, me!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, me, I want some.

Bloody young girls as flat as a board3 to go and sell bloody perfume to kids who dream of nothing but to dress themselves like whores.

Bloody naked babies, all beautiful, they look good in the adverts to sell the enjoyment of minerals to the ragged-arsed bloody plebs.

Type, type on your keybords, everyone chasing after money, bloody pennies for selling whatever is there being hawked on the market.

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants some bloody pennies?

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, we want bloody pennies, go on!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, who wants bloody pennies? Me, me!

Bloody pennies, bloody pennies, me, I want some bloody pennies.

Always bloody pennies...

1. out-of-town supermarkets2. Tartuffe is a character who is a cheating hypocritical scumbag in the eponymous play by Molière; the character was so famous that the name has become a common noun meaning someone like that character3. literally: "like a breadboard"