Je suis un homme [English translation]

I am a man of the cave and stone

I am an ape or a fossil bone

Through the earth, in ev’ry season

Well, I walk around, I walk around

I am one soul then a million more

Man with a heart like a lion’s roar

Ev’ry season, I am at war,

While I walk around, I walk around

I am a man, ambitious as Rome,

Beautiful car and beautiful home

In the bedroom, on the front lawn

Well, I walk around, I walk around

I’ll make love, make a revolution

I’ll make careful calculations

Closer, closer to regression

While, I walk around, I walk around

You see, I am no man

I am the king of illusion

Deep down, I know what I am

I am the king, king of ruin

I make the world however I please

Buried in gold and cold concrete

Heart imprisoned, so are my feet

So I walk around, I walk around

Kneeling before my television

I am a man of self-negation

Both consumer and the product

Well, it all adds up, it all adds up

You see, I am no man

I am the king of illusion

Deep down, I know what I am

I am the king, king of ruin

It’s me, the master of fire, the master of liars

The master of earth, and look what I have made of that

A planet of glass, a planet of ash

A world of men, who’d just as soon forget

I am a man, in front of the mirror

Like a mistake, a freak of nature

Through the earth, without a reason

But to walk around, to walk around

I am a man; it all becomes clear

The horrors of my own nature

My penance and my punishment

Is to walk around, I walk around