Le Nouveau Western [English translation]

The wind blows in Arizona

A State in which Harry wandered.

Cow-boy, crazy of the bang-bang of a gun,

Of weapons, horses, and what's needed for a binge.

Chased by Smith & Wesson,

Colt, Derringer, Winchester & Remington,

He roams the plains, proud, lonely,

His horse is his partner.

Sometimes, he meets Indians

But the gold rush is his sole goal.

His life follows a course that we all know by heart:

Otto Premiger's River of No Return.

While John Wayne is clothed like Lucky Luke,

Clean like an archduke, Uncle Sam deceives me.

Hollywood fools us. Hollywood fools!…

In the everyday life like in

The New Westerns

We say "beware of the gorilla", but beware of Gary Cooper.

The modern western has settled down in the place.

When the city sleeps trains don't whistle.

The Magnificent Seven don't get an ounce of a fight.

Harry is now close to East Station,

He skips ages and places for a new Far-West.

Saloons here are bars, where they sell you smokes,

Not the chew type, the good type, some CinemaScope.

He enters the bar, orders an Indian,

Scalps the foam, drinks, puts down the glass on the zinc.

A Two-Horses parks, and drunk guys are punching

About futile issues like in

The New Westerns.

The States are some kind of multinational company

exporting the western and its feudal world

dictating right and wrong; Lucky Luke and the Daltons

Are cloaked in Paul Smith and Weston

Some say only the scenery matters,

The clothes do not make the man in the gold rush.

Therefore techniques are perfected;

The smart-card replaces the Remington.

But Harry in Paris got unlucky,

He and his diligence are stopped on the beltway

Then he's put in Fresnes Prison, so that it hinders him;

victim of the directives of what we call

The New Western.

Sometimes life is like a stray bullet:

In the modern system the individual is drowning

To stay clear-handed they drink plenty Brandy

From now on we brandish TV, hashish, and baby.

White is the Stagecoach

Always in backlight, it's far less heroic.

In the dream world we get a happy ending

Is it also the case in what we call

The New Western?