Les chanteurs sont tous les mêmes [English translation]

Paris by night again 1

The departed girl again

The chrysanthemum loves 2

Singers are all the same

Again the songwriter

Who fixes his hair and cries

The dive into the Seine

You and your jacket again

The spotlights and all the rest again

In all the time I’ve see you hanging about

There

You do the lasso trick

It’s always old Joe’s song

If you think I haven’t seen you

That I don’t see you

Paris in the rain again

Love in the afternoon

The room on the fourth floor

Singers are all the same

Again the songwriter

Collapsing at five in the morning

The strong alcohol of Verlaine

You in concert again

In the gymnasium of Boulogne-sur-Mer

In all the time I’ve seen you hanging about

There

You do the lasso trick again

It’s always old Joe’s song

If you think I haven’t seen you

that I don’t see you

Still you and your jacket

Still the spotlights and all the rest

In all the time I’ve seen you hanging about

There

You still do the lasso trick

It’s always old Joe’s song

If you think I haven’t seen you

that I don’t see you

Paris by night again

The neon lights the taxis

The pale morning again

Singers are all the same

Until the end of the day

And I will sing my love

Is that a problem?

1. Encore/toujours can variously be translated as again/still/always depending on the context. I’ve chosen to use them as I see fit2. Traditionally funeral flowers so maybe these loves are doomed