La vie ne vaut rien [English translation]

He looked at his life from all angles

to see if existence had some meaning.

He asked the opinion of lots of people,

all delighted to give their opinion about life.

He went through the smoke of whirling

dervishes,

of pot smokers,

and he said:

Life is not worth a damn thing.

Life is not worth a thing,

but when I just hold

but when I hold

in these two bewildered hands

the two nice little breasts of my sweetheart,

then I say there's nothing, nothing

nothing better than life1.

He watched space go by,

among the jet set, the pomp, the palaces,

and then glorified janitors2.

Some put their hopes in steeples and monasteries,

looking to see a good old cushy Sgt. Pepper3,

but there's only Richard Gere up there.

He crawled like a bug into Internet sites

to meet people from sects,

and he said

Life is not worth a damn thing.

Life is not worth a thing,

but when I just hold

but when I hold

in these two bewildered hands

the two nice little breasts of my sweetheart,

then I say there's nothing, nothing

nothing better than life.

He saw lacks of love and money,

how corrosive life is,

how it washes out people.

He played lame guitar tunes4 for some

drowsy friends.

What a nostaligia!

And he said:

Ah!

Life is not worth a damn thing.

Life is not worth a thing,

but when I just hold

but when I hold

in these two bewildered hands

the two nice little breasts of my sweetheart,

then I say there's nothing, nothing

nothing better than life.

There's nothing, nothing

nothing better than life. (x2)

1. lit. "life is worth nothing / nothing is worth life"2. lit. "surface technician", the PC equivalent of "janitor"3. pun on "pépère" (easy, tranquil) and the Beatles' character4. The first bars of this tune used for the soundtrack of the cult movie "jeux interdits" can be played with the right hand only. I has become a symbol for phoney guitar players