I'm not some guy with an easy tear
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One of those that complain just out of habit
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If life lets me, I'll lay hands on it
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And if not, my trade still excites me
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And since dreaming comes free as well
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And I don't believe in reincarnation
With a bit of imagination
I'll head off traveling right away
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To slip into the suit and the skin
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Painter in Montparnasse
Policeman, not even as a joke
The coolest in the neighborhood
I roll 'cause it's my turn
But if they let me choose
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Among all the lives I choose
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The life of the peg-leg pirate
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Of a ship that flew as its flag
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A pair of tibias and a skull
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The life of the peg-leg pirate
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The old rogue, captain
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Of a ship that flew as its flag
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A pair of tibias and a skull
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Three-cushion billiards player
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Suicide on the viaduct
But if they let me choose
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Among all the lives I choose
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The life of the peg-leg pirate
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Of a ship that flew as its flag
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A pair of tibias and a skull
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The life of the peg-leg pirate
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Of a ship that flew as its flag
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A pair of tibias and a skull