Sympathique [Je ne veux pas travailler] [English translation]

My hotel room surrounds me like a cage*(1)

Arms of sunlight reaching through the window panes

The wardens at my door like small-time soldiers*(2)

Coming to take me away

(Chorus)

I don't want to work and sweat

I don't feel like eating yet

I want only to forget

And so I smoke

I've known before the scent of love so sweet

Even a thousand wreaths of roses can't compete*(3)

But now the perfume of a single bloom

Just makes me sick

(Chorus)

I've no pride in this life

That seems to want me gone

To be so nice is a paradise*(4)

That I have never known

(Chorus)