Devotion Lyrics

Devotion lyrics

L'as de trefle (1) n'a pas de conseil a donner
[the ace of clubs has no
advice to give]
Prends le vague a l'ame ou la vie du bon cote
[take the
vague melancholy or the life on the right side]
La premiere solution des
l'introduction
[the first solution from the introduction]
Se doit d'etre
bonne comme une nonne en devotion
[has to be as good as a nun in
devotion]
(Dji ?) est un mec qui n'a pas de chance
[(?) is a guy who's
not lucky]
Le fils de l'amour regrette sa date de naissance
[the son of
love regrets his birth date]
Etre different l'a beaucoup stresse
[being
different has made him nervous a lot]
L'opinion publique l'a beaucoup
vexe
[the public opinion much vexed him]
Mais sa vie en main oubliant les
apparences
[but his life well in hand, forgetting the
appearances]
Parceque depuis l'enfance il vit dans le monde du
silence
[because since his childhood he's deaf]
Au boulot on le voit
comme un humanoide
[at his job he's seen as a humanoid]
Sa promotion est
une course de spermatozoides
[his progress is a spermatozoides
race]
L'handicape a happe l'handicape,
[the handicapped has snaped up at
the handicapped]
Ses capacites lui ont fait franchir le cap du
dedain
[his capacity made him pass the cape of disdain]
Et de la
non-communication
[and of non-communication]
Avec calme et brio il est
objet d'admiration
[with calm and brio he's subject to
admiration]
Admiration
Devotion pour etre top telle
Evangelista
[devotion to be a 'top' such as Evangelista]
Parcequ'un faux
devot devant sa rue la pista
[because a fake devout trailed her in front of
her street]
De castings en castings elle attend le verdict
[from castings
to castings she waits for the verdict]
Il tombe quand la nuit tombe: "vous
etes trop petite"
[it's returned when night falls: "you're to
little"]
Alors elle baisse les bras (*) au lieu de relever la tete
[so
she lowers her arms instead of holding her head high]
Elle est belle mais
pas seule comme l'etait la Schtroumpfette (2)
[she's beautiful but not alone
as was the Schtroumpfette]
Le lendemain matin j'entends qu'elle pousse la
voix
[the following moring I can hear her voice]
Parcequ'un faux devot
devant sa rue la flatta
[because a fake devout flattered her in
front..]
Petite tu vas chanter et il la fait chanter
['little', you are
going to sing and he makes her sing]
Si tu veux etre star donne moi ton
porte-monnaie
[if you want to be a star gimme your wallet]
Je sais
qu'elle est trop fiere pour demander de l'aide
[I know she's to much proud
to beg help]
Trop fiere pour ceder pourtant elle cede
[to proud to give
up, yet she does]
Ma fille t'es sans defaut, mefie-toi des faux
devots
[my girl you're faultless, beware of fake devouts]
Mefie-toi des
mefaits des faux qui te disent sans defaut
[beware of the misdeeds of untrue
people who tell you you're
faultless]
Lutece (3) est pleine de princesses
qui aiment cette promotion
[Lutece is full of princesses who like this
progress]
Toi tu es une deesse vouee a l'admiration
[you, you're a
goddess devoted to admiration]
Admiration...
Il porte une big Rolex,
s'habille chez Smalto
[he wears a 'big' Rolex, buys his clothes to
Smalto's]
Fume des Coibas comme Fidel Castro
[smokes Coibas like
Fidel]
Investit ses assedics (4) dans l'apparat, pourquoi ?
[invests his
'assedics' in pomp, why ?]
Parceque l'habit peut faire le moine,
parfois
[cause one can judge people by their appearance, sometimes]
Alors
il se sape (sl.) et va chercher du taff (= pot ? Maybe...)
[so he gets
well-dressed and picks up 'taff']
On ne lui donne pas parcequ'il fait bien
trop gaffe (sl.)
[he's not given because he takes to much care]
En fait
il veut etre boss pour ne pas bosser
[in fact he wants to be a boss to not
work]
Pour pouvoir l'ouvrir a l'inverse de l'ouvrier
[to be able to open
unlike the worker]
Mais bon bien vite il doit constater que pour etre
boss
[but he quickly finds that, to be a boss]
Et bien, mon pote, il faut
bosser
[well, my friend, you have to work]
Il se dit "comment faire pour
chiller comme un mac"
[he says to himself "how could I 'chill' like a
'mack']
Pres du lac a la recherche de son passe
[near the lake on the
search for his past]
L'as de trefle n'a pas de conseil a donner
[the ace
of clubs has no advice to give]
Prends le vague a l'ame ou la vie du bon
cote
[take ... or the life on the right side]
Apres le developpement
voici la conclusion
[after the exposition here's the conclusion]
Acte
(sl.) avec tact et capte l'admiration
['act' with tact and catch the
admiration]