Tes parents [English translation]

Your parents are maybe

Professors of literature

Connected to France Inter*1

And who vote for the Greens

In this case, at your parents'

There will be Télérama*2

An album about Colette*3

And the heating at 17*4

But your parents may also

Love to go on a world trip

Go to the dangerous countries

And bring back a slideshow

For Christmas I may get

A book about the Louvre*5

Maybe your parents

Are a little bit annoying

I am ready to accept everything

Figaro, Madame or Libération*6

I am ready to compromise

Eat sheep brain

I am ready for everything to make it work

Pet their disgusting dog

Suffer through the whole Traviata*7

And even watch Thalassa*8

But why don't your parents

Go skiing in the Jura mountains

They have a blast at the age of 50

In the front seats of their SUV

If your parents took us

To play golf at Le Touqet*9

Maybe we woudn't

See your parents all that often

But your parents probably

Play Scrabble on saturdays

They just inscribed their names

At the choir of Riquewihr*10

Your parents order for coffee

A quarter of Perrier*11

Maybe your parents

Are retired

I am ready to accept everything

Figaro, Madame or Libération

Ready to betray my convictions

Eat oysters for New Year's

I am ready for everything to make it work

Talk bad about the neighbor from accross the street

Tolerate the Opel Vectras*12

And even watch Thalassa

And maybe your parents are good people

Who watch theme nights about Joe Dassin*13

And who then say: "Oh no, nevermind, we will do the dishes tomorrow morning"

With your mother always wanting us to take home the leftovers of the fricassee

When we go back through the Porte Champerret*14 on sunday evenings

And then your father who asks me:

"So, Vincent! When will you make a CD?"

I am ready for everything to make it work

Pet their disgusting dog

Open cans of Canigou*

Chloé has told me so much about you

Chloé has told me so much about you