Voyou [English translation]

[Introduction]

Beat it! Bash it out! I’m telling you, what more do you desire

Have you not seen enough? Stop looking at me in that way.

Have you heard nothing? Don’t you understand?

How must I say it so you might understand?

Listen you bitch:

I’m not a well-mannered person, I’m not a nice person, I’m a dirty beast, a gas bottle in a chimney.

And I will end up beating your face if you come to close

Just like the others

But you don’t know what you are saying

I tried to change, it never worked

I will never change

And even now there is no second chance

There are no clean slates

Don’t act like you don’t see it have you not noticed?

It’s plastered all over on every newspaper

On the screen where people can see it

It is even written in bold letters in the sides of buildings

When good people like you sleep

It’s marked in red

You were born like that, you live like that, and you thrash it

Your naked face’s reflection is the only one that can disgust you

Your guilt and despair are your only witness

Don’t believe me, yet you don’t want me to continue

Because it will prevent you from sleeping

And even worst yet it will make you want to spit on my face

So before I once again transform myself, start running

Run from me as if I was cholera

[Chorus]

I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody.

But I am a criminal simply that

I’ve done things I regret

Enough to think about it all the time

I could give you a million reasons

For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me

And if one day you come for me, I will not resist

I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste

But before that happens I want you to know that I understand

I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt

And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for

And what if it takes me a lifetime

I’m sorry ill lower my voice

Oh you disturb my mind, shit

And if you lose your mind if you break or shut your mouth

You look at your plate and give us 5 minutes of peace

By the time I finish, can you do that?

What bothers you that you walk around the world that would in that way?

Yeah it sucks! I understand dude

But you say you have a chance

You were raised well as it should, your strong, your consistent

You make people uncomfortable in restaurants

You sleep well; words don’t bother your ears

You are good French, you're beautiful, and you’re healthy

As a fashion magazine, like a model home

These things don’t happen to you, do they?

Do you not understand me?

Is the door to your closet no open enough?

You might be surprised

It will make you feel funny in the evenings when you think about the tings

You thought I had buried

In fact, they were there, always there, hidden under the carpet

They came out like a needle in your foot

Before disappearing

And when the knot in your throat stings like the smell of ammonia

It brings cold sweat, as your teeth shatter

But no, I am not calm! I am not calm! He doesn’t know what he is

He doesn’t know that its priceless. To be lousy, to be stupid, to be puppet

To be the land where good and evil collides. He does not know what it is!

[Chorus]

I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody

But I am a criminal simply that

I’ve done things I regret

Enough to think about it all the time

I could give you a million reasons

For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me

And if one day you come for me, I will not resist

I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste

But before that happens I want you to know that I understand

I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt

And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for

And what if it takes me a lifetime

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And how can you want me if I myself don’t want me?

Why do you say you love me so that I hate myself?

Why are you here, why do you stay?

Not tonight, not tonight leave me alone please

I don’t want to go, I don’t want to come back in, I don’t want to sleep.

In fact I don’t want to talk tonight. Tonight I just want to scream

I want to open the gates, you know to let everything out

Like a virgin who lies screaming heavy words

With my teenage voice that hasn’t died.

I scream for fear of abandonment, and my frantic search for attention

Like a dog in need for attention

My desperate attempt to be a guy that I'm not and that I will never be

Scream at my lack of courage, my cruelty, my sickening politeness

My stupid optimism, my dangerous overdoing of things

My thoughts, my tantrums. Can my guilt, my sexuality and my twisted fantasies

Scream out my fear of others, my petty deviousness

My regrets, my mistakes, my neuroses. My obsessions, my great obsessions

My fear of pain, loss, suicide, depression

[Chorus]

I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody

But I am a criminal simply that

I’ve done things I regret

Enough to think about it all the time

I could give you a million reasons

For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me

And if one day you come for me, I will not resist

I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste

But before that happens I want you to know that I understand

I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt

And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for

And what if it takes me a lifetime