La belle au bois [English translation]

The Sleeping Beauty in the VIP Clubs

She dances like a star chasing after the night

Snaps her shaking ass for the whole world to see

Twerking to give hard-ons to fine champagne bottles

Youth 2.0 parties on the Saturday nights

Passing 'round lines of coke all over the planet

In the nighttime world, gotta see these show-offs

Posting their shitty lives covered up with glitter

Edge of 2020, our sleeping beauty's

Waking up hung over, gets up, swallows her meds

Gets into the last train for the patsy's fair

To go whoring around in the dickheads dos

She knows all the bouncers, she comes here every night

She's the queen of podiums, yeah man she's quite the sight

When she's posting her ass in exchange for a like

To the whims of upthumbs, the youth sure lost their way

Beauty deep in the night seeks the seventh heaven

Searching for paradise within the virtual

So she dances some more, puts herself on display

Goes to post her body buried in mascara

And as her makeup runs, there's nothing she can do

Except get a good fuck to get out of this hell

She's got her eyes crying, but her ass is begging

Anyone who will take her away for one night

She dances on podiums, in the VIP clubs

She dances like a star chasing after the night

Snaps her shaking ass for the whole world to see

Twerking to give hard-ons to fine champagne bottles

Youth 2.0 parties on the Saturday nights

Passing 'round lines of coke all over the planet

In the nighttime world, gotta see these show-offs

Posting their shitty lives covered up with glitter

She dances on podiums like you'd take opium

She's snorting lines of coke like you'd take a Valium

MD's for ecstasy, ecstasies of the night

Ketamine she'll pay for with a head at midnight

She'll swallow anything if it gets you high

When the heart's in the red, someone sure bled it dry

She'll blow in the crapper any motherfucker

She'll suck anyone's dick who's gonna make her dream

And so she sings by heart, yeah the DJs' sounds

She knows all the lyrics, she's just so fucking sad

Wanna be someone else, a big star in L.A.

On her Insta she says it sounds best in English1

When the morning comes, the mascara's weeping

Yet she'll open her bed if you'll go to fifth base

But come on, girl, you're like the most pitiful mess

You look like the coffins of a pathetic world

She dances on podiums with the world at her feet

She dances like a star that prayed too much for it

Snaps her shaking ass for the whole world to see

Twerking to give hard-ons to fine champagne bottles

Youth 2.0 parties on the Saturday nights

Passing 'round lines of coke all over the planet

In the nighttime world, gotta see these show-offs

Posting their shitty lives covered up with glitter

Youth 2.0 parties on the Saturday nights

Passing 'round lines of coke all over the planet

In the nighttime world, gotta see these show-offs

Posting their shitty lives covered up with glitter

Mykonos, Ibiza, New-York or Saint-Tropez

In the kings' area girls surely like to dance

Right-side up, upside down, yeah come on, pass around

Slutty asses in the VIP area

She dances on podiums with the world at her feet

She'll swallow anything if it gets you high

Blow in the crapper any motherfucker

She'll suck anyone's dick who's gonna make her dream

And so the youth will twerk, and so the youth will dance

In the Saturdays clubs, heading to misery

She'll follow for the night just any ambulance2

That's willing to take her beyond the dance floor

The youth play Beauty for the virtual world

Just to clean up a bit the sobbing mascaras

Such is the fame of guys, such is the fame of gals

Who mistake illusions for some kind of a god

Youth 2.0, the Sleeping Beauty in the Woods

Got Snow White up her nose with some kicks in the teeth

To better find Heaven, she just snorted Beauty

About as much star dust as in a Milky Way

And no matter the stars shining bright in the night

Girls love to get away if there's cash in sight

When the eyes are crying, but the ass is begging

Anyone who will take her away for one night

And she left just like that, just like you take a cab

Left with a loaded dude in the limo of life

Paramedic skyline, yeah Beauty got away

If it gets them some dough, girls will never say no

And no matter the stars shining bright in the night

Girls love to get away if there's cash in sight

When the eyes are crying, but the ass is begging

Anyone who will take her away for one night

And no matter the stars shining bright in the night

Girls love to get away if there's cash in sight

When the eyes are crying, but the ass is begging

Anyone who will take her away for one night

1. AFAIK, Saez is referencing the English pronunciation of "L.A.", criticizing the young french people's tendency to think that English is cooler than other languages, including French.2. The ambulance is likely a direct reference to the song "Cinderella" by Téléphone, which also deals with disillusion and is also mirrored in the title.