Renaud
Le Mauvais Sujet repenti lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1995
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:26
Elle avait la taill' faite au tour
She had a figure that captivated all
Les hanches pleines
Her hips were full
Et chassait l'm le aux alentours
And she hunted me in the surrounding area
De la Mad'leine
Of the Mad'leine
A sa fa on d'me dir' Mon rat
With her way of saying to me, my dear
Est-c'que j'te tente?
Do I tempt you?
Je vis que j'avais affaire
I saw that I had work to do
Un' d butante
A debutante
L'avait l'don, c'est vrai, j'en conviens
She had the gift, it's true, I admit it
L'avait l'g nie
She had the charm
Mais, sans technique, un don n'est rien
But without skill, a gift is nothing
Qu'un' sal' manie
Just a dirty trick
Certes on ne se fait pas putain
Surely, we don't become a whore
Comme on s'fait nonne
The way we become a nun
C'est du moins c'qu'on pr che, en latin
At least that's what they preach, in Latin
A la Sorbonne
At the Sorbonne
Me sentant rempli de piti?
Feeling filled with pity
Pour la donzelle
For the young lady
J'lui enseignai, de son m? tier
I taught her, about her trade
Les p'tit's ficelles
The little tricks
J'lui enseignai l'moyen d'bient
I taught her the way to soon
Faire fortune
To make a fortune
En bougeant l'endroit o le dos
By moving to the place where the back
R'ssemble la lune
Resembles the moon
Car, dans l'art de fair' le trottoir
For, in the art of working the sidewalk
Je le confesse
I confess it
Le difficile est d'bien savoir
The difficult part is to know well
Jouer des fesses
How to play with the hips
On n'tortill' pas son popotin
We don't wiggle our behind
D'la m me mani re
In the same way
Pour un droguiste, un sacristain
For a druggist, a sacristan
Un fonctionnaire
A civil servant
Rapidement instruite par
Quickly taught by
Mes bons offices
My good services
Elle m'investit d'une part
She entrusted me with a part
D'ses b n fices
Of her benefits
On s'aida mutuellement,
We helped each other out,
Comm' dit l'po te
As the poet says
Ell' tait l'corps, naturell'ment
She was the body, naturally
Puis moi la t te
Then I was the head
Un soir la suite de
One evening the sequel of
Man uvres douteuses
Questionable deeds
Elle' tomba victim' d'une
She fell victim to a
Maladie honteuse
Shameful disease
Lors, en tout bien, toute amiti
Then, with all good, all friendship
En fille probe
As a virtuous girl
Elle me passa la moiti?
She passed me half
De ses microbes
Of her germs
Apr s des injections aigu
After sharp injections
D'antiseptique
Of antiseptic
J'abandonnai l'm tier d'cocu
I abandoned the third party of the deceitful
Syst matique
Systematic
Elle eut beau pousser des sanglots
She cried her heart out in vain
Braire tu'-t te
Bray, will you?
Comme je n' tais qu'un salaud
As I was nothing but a scoundrel
J'me fis honn te
I made myself honest
Sit t priv e de ma tutelle
If you were deprived of my guardianship
Ma pauvre amie
My poor friend
Courut essuyer du bordel
Ran to wipe away the mess
Les infamies
The infamies
Para t qu'elle s'vend m me des flics
For her to sell herself to me like a cop
Quelle d cadence!
What a rhythm!
Y'a plus d'moralit publique
There's no public morality left
Dans notre France
In our France
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Key vocabulary
- douteuses
- doubtfulB2
- fis
- fishB2
- honteuse
- shamefulB2
- manie
- maniaB2
- nie
- denyB2
- tutelle
- guardianshipB2
- vis
- lifeB2
- jouer
- playA1
- moins
- lessA1
- pleines
- fullA1
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About this song
Renaud (Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan) is a French singer-songwriter. He is known for French-language chanson rooted in regional dialects and for topping French album and single charts across multiple decades, including award-winning releases such as “Boucan d’enfer” and “Toujours debout.”