[Intro]
Piss off! I said fuck off, what else do you need?
Haven't you seen enough? And stop looking at me like that
Didn't you listen? Didn't you understand?
How should I tell you so that you get it?
Listen, stupid bitch:
I'm not a good person, I'm not a beautiful soul
I'm a pain, a gas bottle in a chimney
And I'm gonna blow up in your face if you come too close
Just like it did with the others
But you don't know what you're talking about
I tried, it's useless, people don't change, people never change
And even if, there's no second chance here anyway
People don't clean the slate
Don't tell me you don't know about it, that you haven't seen it?
It's printed everywhere, in the newspapers
On the screens, in people's eyes
It's even written in large letters on the buildings, at night
When good people like you are asleep
It's written in red:
You're born like this, you live like this, you die like this
Alone naked facing your reflection with your self-disgust
Your guilt and desperation as only witnesses
No, believe me, you don't want me to say more
Because at best it'll keep you from sleeping
At worst it'll make you want to spit in my face
So before I transform myself again, run away
Flee me like the cholera
[Chorus]
No I haven't robbed anyone, stabbed anyone, killed anyone
But I'm a thug that's what they call it
I've done things I regret enough
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million of good reasons
For them to catch me, break my knees and nail me to the pillory
And if one day they come for me, I won't resist
I'll get out with my hands on my head, causing no trouble
But before that happens It'd like you to know that I understood
That I spend my nights between pills and insomnia
And that I'm going to fight to rebuild a repented apprentice
And whatever, if it takes me a lifetime
Excuse me? You want me to make less noise?
Ah, we're disturbing you, shit...
Well if we're disturbing you fuck off or shut the fuck up
Look at your plate and just leave us alone for 5 minutes
Just so that I finish, can you do that?
What's up, does it bother you that I cross you in front of everyone?
Well yeah it's bloody annoying! I understand mate
But tell yourself that you're lucky
You're just right, just like you should, you're solid, you're consistent
You don't embarrass anyone in the restaurants
You sleep well at night
You're a good little french guy, you're beautiful, you're good
Like a decoration magasine, like a model home
These things never happen to you, eh?
Do you really not see what I'm talking about?
Well don't open your closet too much then
You could be surprised
It's going feel weird the evening where the things
That you thought buried will let you know
That actually, they were there all along, hidden under the rug
They let a hand out and stick a needle in your foot
Juste before disappearing
And then it gets to your throat, like ammonia odors
It gives you cold sweats, your teeth chatter
No I won't calm down! I won't calm down, he doesn't know what it is!
He doesn't know what it's like to be a loser
To be lousy, to be grime, to be a puppet
To be the ground where good and evil fight
He doesn't know what it is!
[Chorus]
No I haven't robbed anyone, stabbed anyone, killed anyone
But I'm a thug that's what they call it
I've done things I regret enough
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million of good reasons
For them to catch me, break my knees and nail me to the pillory
And if one day they come for me, I won't resist
I'll get out with my hands on my head, causing no trouble
But before that happens It'd like you to know that I understood
That I spend my nights between pills and insomnia
And that I'm going to fight to rebuild a repented apprentice
And whatever, if it takes me a lifetime
[Interlude] X2
How can you think that you care about me if I don't myself?
Why do you say you love me when I hate myself?
Why are you here, why do you stay?
No, not tonight, not tonight leave me please
No I don't want to go there, I don't want to go home, I don't want to sleep
But I especially don't want to talk
Tonight I just want to scream
I need to open the floodgates, you understand, to let it all go
Like a lying virgin, to scream my heavy words
With my never broken teenager voice
To scream my fear of abandon, my frenetic research of attention
My permanent need of recognition, like a dog seeks petting
My desperate attempts to be someone that I'm not
And that I probably never will be
To scream my absence of courage, my cruelty, my unhealthy politeness
My stupid optimism, my dangerous zeal
My idiotic reflexes, my fits of passion
My fake guilt, my screwy sexuality and my twisted fantasies
To scream my panicking fear of others, my sneaky meanness
My regrets, my errors, my neurosis
My obsessions, my meta-obsessions
My phobia of fear, of loss, of suicide, of depression
[Chorus]
No I haven't robbed anyone, stabbed anyone, killed anyone
But I'm a thug that's what they call it
I've done things I regret enough
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million of good reasons
For them to catch me, break my knees and nail me to the pillory
And if one day they come for me, I won't resist
I'll get out with my hands on my head, causing no trouble
But before that happens It'd like you to know that I understood
That I spend my nights between pills and insomnia
And that I'm going to fight to rebuild a repented apprentice
And whatever, if it takes me a lifetime