Le coup du téléphone [English translation]

I was bored, bored

So I thought: "I’m gonna phone myself"

I was bored, bored

So I thought: "I’m gonna phone myself

To hear the latest about me

And stop being bored"

But because I was out

I had to say I wasn’t home

But because I was out

I had to say I wasn’t home

Sometimes, when you get calls, at night

You have to be weary

Still, on a piece of paper

I jotted down my phone number

Still, on a piece of paper

I jotted down my phone number

But it was a piece of rolling paper

And I was bored, so I had a smoke

When I came back, a little later

I saw something in the ashtray

When I came back, a little later

I saw something in the ashtray

A crushed cigarette butt

And I never was able to remember