Come on, it's my party. Come on, everyone's celebrating.
Go ahead and build your castles in the air1
Put the pedal to the metal, I got turbo under the hood, it's great.
Come on, you little thugs, faster! Get a move on!
Sooth my erratic ground water
More and more drilling
If it's not rage, then it's love
Then it's love
As thick as thieves, oil and man2
Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger
The earth is a black hole, a numbskull
Take my gold bars, I'll hand them over
Make us rich, make us zilch, make us billions
And relax on my pavement3
Flirt with the dollar bills
The tide's all decked out in black, all decked out in black
Take all that's left, let them bury me, let them buy me
Yeah, take all that's left, let them finish me off
Go ahead and drill all over the place
Please accept my condolences, I'm dying
As thick as thieves, oil and man
Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger
The earth is a black hole, a numbskull
Take my gold bars, I'll hand them over
So go and fool about,
Go and drill holes, little holes in my pierced heart
Break the sound barrier in your cars, in your planes
Where are your hearts, your hearts? Those sad, apathetic engines.
So kill me good and proper, make sure I suffer
Give me the works, yeah the works
Go ahead and jam me into the line
Then kill me without a motive, without a motive4
Look how your heads turn
When my head falls
Go ahead and dig our graves, our graves
What has mankind done to me?
A hopeless, vile world
As thick as thieves, oil and man
Sell off my gold bars, I'll snigger
The earth is a black hole, a numbskull
Sell off my gold bars, I give up
I give up
1. Literally "Make your plans on my comet", relating to the environmentalist message2. Although the title of the song is 'Petroleum', this is not an actual French word. I think that Zazie in fact says 'Pétrole et homme', a play on words3. Can also mean 'Take it out on'4. 'Mobil/e can mean 'mobile' or 'motive'