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    Ballade de Johnny Jane → English translation

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The ballad of Johnny Jane

Hey Johnny Jane
Do you remember Gainsbourg's movie I love you ?
"I love you me neither", a nice theme
 
Hey Johnny Jane
You that drags your shoes and your candid eyes
In the no man's land and sordid places
 
Hey Johnny Jane
Public dumpsters are the Atlantis
That spanish flies fly over
Hey Johnny Jane
All the dumpster trucks
Come here to pour their infanticid pains
 
Hey Johnny Jane
You stroll with your short hair and your pale skin
Looking for your suicid love
 
Hey Johnny Jane
Do you want to slice your memory's throat ?
With kicks into empty tins
Oh Johnny Jane
Another dumpster
Will bring you from bliss to bliss under limpid skies
 
Hey Johnny Jane
Don't be a kid, don't be so stupid
Look at things straight in the eye, be lucid
 
Hey Johnny Jane
Erase all that, restart, liquidate
Of your memory these brief torrid moments
 
Hey Johnny Jane
Another dumpster
Will come to bring you to other Floridas
 
Hey Johnny Jane
You that drags your shoes and your candid eyes
In the no man's land and sordid places
Crush with a raging fist your damp eye
Time consumes love like acid
 
Original lyrics

Ballade de Johnny Jane

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