L'amour est laid [English translation]

Here love is ugly

Here love is dirty

Here there are rosebush branches to wipe away your tears

So act like the others you know in Amsterdam

To brush away your heartache, take it with charm

Sat on the benches of life

To learn my own and the forgotten

To understand love and contempt

To guess the good future

And to make the selection

And to find the sweet words

To border on madness

To say yes to absolutely everything

Here love is ugly

Here love is dirty

Here there are rosebush branches to wipe away your tears

So act like the others you know in Amsterdam

To mop up your heartache, take it with charm

There are far too many words

There are far too many ideas

There are far too many choices, things to accept

There are too many bad roles to play

For us fools to try

Try to understand

You do nothing but pretend

To try to learn

Don't think about defending your interests, your position

The money you don't have

The money which rules unchallenged

Love even without frolics

Here love is ugly

Here love is dirty

Here there are rosebush branches to wipe away your tears

So act like the others you know in Amsterdam

To mop up your heartache, take it with charm

But me, I don't believe

I don't believe in your soldiers

I don't give a damn about your kings

Which rot my heart

And me, I don't believe

In your trainers

I don't give a damn about your laws

Which push me to mistakes

Here love is ugly

Here love is dirty

Here there are rosebush branches to wipe away your tears

So act like the others you know in Amsterdam

To brush away your heartache, take it with charm

Here love is ugly

Here love is dirty

Here there are rosebush branches to wipe away your tears

So act like the others you know in Amsterdam

To mop up your heartache, take it with charm