Monopolis [English translation]

From New York to Tokyo

Everywhere is the same

We take the same subway

To the same suburbs

Everyone neatly lining up

Night neons

Replace the sun

And on every radio

We dance the same disco

Days are gray, nights are blue

In the cities of the year two thousand

Life will be much easier

We'll all have a number

On our back

And a star on our skin

We'll gladly follow the herd

In the cities of the year two thousand

Mirabelle or Roissy

Everywhere is the same

All around Earth

We fly the same charters

To go where the sky is blue

When we won't know

Where to find the sun anymore

Then we'll leave to Mars or Jupiter

Everyone neatly lining up

In the cities of the year two thousand

Life will be much easier

We'll all have a number

On our back

And a star on our skin

We'll gladly follow the herd

In the cities

Of the year two thousand

Monopolis

There will be no more strangers

We will all be strangers

In the streets of Monopolis

Will we walk hand in hand

Like in 1980

Together in Monopolis ?

When our children will be twenty

We will be of another time

The time of before Monopolis

I picture myself sitting on a bench

Alone, in the center of Monopolis