
Michel Sardou
Je vous ai bien eus lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1976
- Genre
- French Pop
- Length
- 3:21
Je sortais tout droit du Grand Meaulnes
I was coming straight from The Great Meaulnes
Avec mes airs d'adolescent
With my adolescent airs
Je n'étais pourtant plus un môme
Yet I was no longer a kid
Depuis déjà longtemps
For quite some time already
Tu me prenais pour un poète
You saw me as a poet
Le pauvre type de toujours
The same old poor guy
Les filles se payaient ma tête
The girls were laughing at me
Quand je parlais d'amour
When I talked about love
Je vous ai bien eus
I really had you all fooled
Je vous ai bien eus
I really had you all fooled
Je disais souvent: l'Amérique
I often said: America
Je sais que moi j'irai un jour
I know that one day I will go
Et que j'en reviendrai plus riche
And that I will return richer
Que Dupont de Nemours
Than Dupont de Nemours
J'ai pris tous les avions du monde
I've taken every plane in the world
Dormi dans tous les trains de nuit
Slept on all the night trains
Aimé dans des bordels immondes
Loved in filthy brothels
Des femmes aux cheveux gris
With women sporting gray hair
Je vous ai bien eus
I really fooled you all
Je vous ai bien eus
I really fooled you all
Je ne vous ressemblais pas
I didn't resemble you
Vous ne m'avez pas cru
You didn't believe me
Mais je vous ai bien eus
But I really got you good
Je vous ai bien eus
I really got you good
J'ai toujours dansé sur les vagues
I've always danced on the waves
Quand on croyait que je sombrais
When they thought I was sinking
Ma vie avait l'air d'une blague
My life looked like a joke
Et pourtant, c'était vrai
And yet, it was true
Je me suis fait, des jours de fête
I made for myself, days of celebration
Éclater des fusées d'amour
Bursting with rockets of love
Comme je vais faire sauter ma tête
As I'm about to blow my mind
À l'aube du dernier jour
At the dawn of the last day
Je vous ai bien eus
I definitely had you fooled
Je vous ai bien eus
I definitely had you fooled
Y avait déjà longtemps
It had been a long time
Que je ne m'aimais plus
Since I no longer loved myself
Mais, je vous ai bien eus
But, I definitely had you fooled
Je vous ai bien eus
I definitely had you fooled
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Key vocabulary
- sortais
- left
- aimé
- lovedA1
- faire
- doB1
- prenais
- took
- tous
- allB1
- bordels
- brothels
- vais
- go
- aube
- dawn
- dernier
- lastA1
- tout
- allA1
About this song
Michel Sardou is a French singer-songwriter and actor associated with pop and chanson. He is known for his French chart-topping albums, frequent media controversy, and major hits such as “La maladie d’amour” and “La vieille.”