Mademoiselle chante le blues [English translation]

Some raise up kids in council housings

Some go and get around from Brazil to Ukraine

Some get married somewhere near Angoulême

And some of them even protest on the streets with leaflets and banners

Some can't stand playing sex-symbols anymore

Some are selling love on the back of their cars

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Some type on machines for eight hours a day

Some flirt indiscriminately with men and women

Some lick boots like one window shops1

And some of them even play in movies, and are called Marylin

But Marilyn Smith will never be Norma Jean

Don't go thinking that talent is what you imagine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

She has gospel in her voice and she believes in it

Some become nuns, lawyers, pharmacists

Some have said everything when they said "I love you"

Some are old maids somewhere near Angoulême

And some of them even play modern women, with blunts and phenobarbitals

Who see life through pink-tinted glasses and idealize everything

Who want to feel good without ever feeling bad

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

1. Window shopping = literally window licking