Les faussaires [English translation]

Fake news, fake breasts

Fake photos for fake magazines

Fake healers, fake fortunes

Fake voters in the common graves

Fake soldiers in the fake wars

It’ll end up, it’ll end up

When we’re all fakers

Fake hammers, fake sickles

Fake boys on the arms of fake girls

Fake oaths full of “forever”

Fake painkillers for fake pains

Fake thoroughbreds under fake manes

It’ll end up, it’ll end up

When we’re all fakers

It's insanely hard to escape it

It’s a real puzzle

Even your fake smiles

Give you real dimples

Fake rumours, fake announcements

Fake saviour giving false answers

Fake loves, fake positions 1

Fake singer in his fake car

Fake jewels making fake necklaces 2

It’ll end up, it’ll end up

When we’re all fakers

It's insanely hard to escape it

It’s a real puzzle

Even your fake smiles

Give you real dimples

Fake preacher, fake prophet

Fake player miming the fake defeat

Fake Bible or rather its false reading

Fake tourists in the fake nature

1. in the live version "postures" is replaced with "factures" ie bills, invoices. 2. Une rivière de diamants = diamond necklace