Vénus des abribus [English translation]

You souldn't have showed off

in leather and laces.

You shouldn't have posed as a goer(1)

to attract them.

Ok, but the girls

they didn't want to stay

there on the couches

watching them walk by.

They wanted to go for it,

and I'm just like them

like them, like them

There are Venuses at bus stops

crying over terminus loves

There are Venuses at bus stops

crying over terminus loves

You shouldn't have rendez-vous(2)

except with the fools(3).

You shouldn't have turned your back

and watch them leave.

Ok, but the girls

they wanted to board

these great freighter

and look at life from up high

and keep to their own little word,

and I'm just like them

like them, like them

You souldn't have said I love you

in the bleak early hours.

You shoudln't have believed,

you shoudln't have believed them too much

on train platforms.

OK, but the girls

they didn't want to hear

the little disturbing song.

They wanted fast and strong(4)

and I agree with them

and I'm just like them

like them, like them