L'amour en fuite [English translation]

Caresses photographed on my sensitive skin

You can dump ’m all, moments, pictures, what you will

There’s always transparent adhesive tape

To square all those torments back into shape

We were that splendid shot: the smart lovers

We set up home, happiness for two, yeah right

Soon enough shards cut and gash and blood spurts

There goes the crockery on the tiled floor

[Chorus]

We, we, we didn’t make it

Peewee, tears down your cheek

We part and there’s nothing we can explain

It’s love on the run

Love on the run

I slept, a child came up in lace frills

Away, then back, then shifty, that’s the swallows’ drill

Hardly have I moved in I leave the two-room flat

Whatever your name is, Lily, Clare or Brad

All my life is a running after things that won’t stay put

Sweet-scented girls, roses, posies of tears

My mother also put behind her ear

A drop of something that smelled just the same