Les gens sont fous [English translation]

I'm on the run

And normally

I should take my medication

Without its aid

I'm going to start thinking I'm Napoleon again

In this big city

My hide-out is good

I'm left alone

Nobody suspects

That I'm crazy

I'm becoming a chameleon

The people are mad

Take away the jerrycans

The people are mad

They've got a hole in the head

The people are mad

It wouldn't surprise me if something catches alight

It's crazy

This flood of floating people

Their heads under the water

Their nerves wound up

Not a grimace between Picpus and Odeon 1

On the subway

Very uptight

Not one word too many

Two thousand MP3s flee the massacre 2

Of the fingering of the accordion's mother of pearl keys

The people are mad

Take away the jerrycans

The people are mad

They've got a hole in the head

The people are mad

It wouldn't surprise me if something catches alight

But the ambulance

Which is on my trail

Find me in a trance

In front of Austerlitz 3

With this pose

Hand under my jacket 4

And without any trousers

I take the capsule

That I'm given

In the padded cell

At Invalides 5

It's there that

Napoleon resides

The people are mad

Take away the jerrycans

The people are mad

They've got a hole in the head

The people are mad

It wouldn't surprise me if that something catches alight

The people are mad

Take away the jerrycans

The people are mad

They've got a hole in the head

The people are mad

It wouldn't surprise me if something catches alight

1. Stations on the Paris Metro2. Possibly a reference to this song 3. Another Metro station4. I suspect he's meant to be striking the classic Napoleon pose of the hand tucked into the jacket 5. The famous French military hospital