La chanson de Jacky Lyrics in English Bernard Lavilliers
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La chanson de Jacky by Bernard Lavilliers from French to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Écoutez la chanson
Listen to the song
Qui nous vient des bas fonds
Which comes from the low bottom
Dans ces rêves où le sang est vermeil, ici
In those dreams where blood is vermeil, here
Et cruel comme la vie
And cruel as life
C'est dans la rue de lappe
It's on the street of lappe
Où vivaient les escarpes
Where the escarpments lived
Qu'elle est sortie cette valse bancale
That she came out that wobbly waltz
Pour ceux qui crèvent la dalle
For those who break the slab
Pour ceux qui crèvent la dalle
For those who break the slab
Elle rode sur white chapelle
She rode on white chapel
Séduit les rats d'hôtel
Seduces hotel rats
Plane sur la city
Plane on the city
Le palais aussi
The palace too
Où jack l'éventreur dort encore
Where jack the Ripper still sleeps
Qui est jack l'éventreur
Who is jack the Ripper
Et quel est son chauffeur
And what's his driver
Longe les hôtels dans un ancien taxi
Longs the hotels in an old taxi
Et son scalpel aussi
And his scalpel too
Et son scalpel qui luit
And his shiny scalpel
Quelque chose décolle
Something's taking off
Pas loin de la couronne
Not far from the crown
Ça vient de la city
It's from the city
Du palais aussi
From the palace too
Où jack l'éventreur dort encore
Where jack the Ripper still sleeps
Mais pour que la vengeance
But for that revenge
Le pousse à la démence
Pushes it to dementia
Il est trahi par ceux d'la city
He is betrayed by those of the city
Bien lessivé, fini
Well washed, finished
Bien lessivé, fini
Well washed, finished
Il ne tue que des hommes
He only kills men
Des banquiers qui bétonnent
Bankers who cement
C'est quand il agit
That's when he acts
Jamais leurs sosies
Never their lookalikes
Dont il crève le cœur
Whose heart he dies
L'éventreur
The Ripper
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