Hollywood [English translation]

My mother danced in bars, imitating Jean Harlow

My father lanced daggers at the circus in Buffalo

Then one day, I was told "Go West" and I cycled

From New York to Los Angeles, on a stolen bike

So, I used my elbows to rub the counters

With a Hollywood star who was losing his memory

Along Sunset Boulevard, arm in arm

We lost his last dollars in slot machines

One day Benjamin Shankar, cousin or brother

From the guy who plays sitar at the English court

Won the right to be a year his lover

We went to live in an apartment

We made music halls disguised as Hindus

She was dancing as a baby doll on "Rhapsody in Blue"

She ended up under the hood of a Dodge or Cadillac

I picked up his hat and the other took his bag

She brought back travelers, shy college students

Who could do, two dollars an hour, some Polaroids

She put us in the kitchen so we would not look

In two months, we played all Gershwin on glasses mustard

Then he continued his wandering Hindu life

I went back to live with my parents

My mother was getting too ugly to play Jean Harlow

My father killed his helper at the circus in Buffalo