Les voisines [English translation]

I always preferred having girls as neighbours

When their shadows wave by on their shutters

I imagine a pantomime love

Where gold and black stockings slip onto your calves

From my opposite window, I stroke the plexiglas

I curse the inventors of the venitian shutters

That cut in slices the view of undressed girls

I always preferred having girls as neighbours

When they dry their laces in the breeze of their balconies

It looks like you moving when the muslin is dancing

Invited to the grand ball of your cotton panties

From my opposite window, I stroke the plexiglas

I curse the brains that invented the tumble dryer

No more window shopping at these drying chest-hiders

I always preferred having girls as neighbours

When they empty their wardrobes to make up their minds

In about one hour, you will chose the jeans

That you will of course put on in my field of view

From my opposite window, I stroke the plexiglas

Unfair competition from your central heating

A dense mist interrupts my trance

Then thick curtains, and then as the last straw

A building restoration hides your wall

A retirement home built right outside my window

On a line now hang hundreds of huge girdles