I like playing the nuisance and you the ingenuous one
That's what we liked at the start
So we had to carefully get rid of
The herds of censors who want to see me hang
And the clusters of leeches attached to your heart
It was quite arduous but we had passion
We praised each other to the skies, to the bottom of escalators
[Refrain:]
When you're there, you kill me
When you're not there, I die
Are you a hallucination
Or a mild delusion?
But the spring of flowers didn't last long
You could say that you had me in colour
Thanks to you I have seen every pain
Your destructive melodramas and my hammer blows1
Your corrupt gossiping and your boxer friends
When the forbidden fruit is put through the mixer
That gives a strange juice a bitter liqueur
[Refrain:]
When you're there, you kill me
When you're not there, it kills me
Are you a hallucination?
Just a bad dream?
What more do you need?
Do you want me to cry?
To drag myself along your road?
To cover you in flowers?
And then what next?
Me, I'm repairing my heart
By stroking the asses
Of my sisters of little virtue
But of great worth
[Refrain:]
When you're there, you kill me
When you're not there, I die
Are you a hallucination
Or a mild delusion?
When you're there, you kill me
When you're not there, it kills me
Are you a hallucination?
Just a bad dream?
When you're there, it kills me
Are you a hallucination?
Just a bad dream?
When you're not there, I die
Are you a hallucination?
Just a bad dream?
1. Literally "club"