Kabaret [English translation]

Welcome, welcome

To a decadent world

All a game of seduction

Of smiles, of passions

Of unusual stories

That make men fall to their knees

Charming and fatal, my life plays itself out

In my cabaret

In a riffraff atmosphere

I relive each night

The sufferings of the heart, the despairs

Of a drinker's rhyme

A lonely pianist

A debauched nobody

A violin on the dance floor

And my cabaret launches forth

I missed you

From the first row to the last

All these years have passed

As quickly as a hit

Androgynous, I appear

(With) my heart open ("naked") onto the stage

I give myself to you

In my cabaret

And when they strike three times

Feel my quivering heart

Under my eyes in black strokes

I write my cabaret

Applaud for the musicians

And the jugglers of words

I tip my hat off to you

In the night, accompanying me

This forgotten melody