L'amour à la papa [English translation]

Leisurely love 1

Tell me, tell me

Tell me that doesn’t interest me

It’s already been months

Months and months

That I’ve been waiting for something else from you

It’s been months that it’s gone on

I lose myself in conjectures

What could I tell you

Tell you to read

Leisurely love

To me, to me

It leaves me neither hot nor cold

I am the ivy

You are the rock

I take root all around you

But you peel away

When I hack at you

You are stone and I become wooden

Leisurely love

Tell me, tell me

Tell me that doesn’t interest me

It’s already been months

Months and months

That I’ve been waiting for something else from you

Ninety in the shade

Of my body and you fade

You’re unbearable

You can only make

Leisurely love

Believe me, believe me

There are thirty two way of doing that

If out of bitterness

I get used to it

It’s highly likely that one day

Having had my fill

It’s to the station

That I’ll send you, you and your loving

Leisurely love

Tell me, tell me

Tell me that doesn’t interest me

It’s already been months

Months and months

That I’ve been waiting for something else from you

At the sea port

You will win my respect

By taking the galley

To Kythira 2

And down there write to me

1. ‘à la papa’ mean in an unhurried, possibly old fashioned way 2. A Greek island