Play Boy Lyrics in English Indochine

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Play Boy by Indochine from French to English.

Me, when I was a teenager

I tried on my mother's clothes

Still, I was sure you'd like it

And that everybody would get used to it

Yet people looked at me sideways

So I also put my clothes on inside out

I also love hopeless cases

Still, I was sure you'd like it

But what have I done

What do I look like

I've got a kind of sickness

A kind of sickness, a sickness I can't define

I have trouble with artists

Especially the French ones who live in Switzerland

I also love sex and snuff movies

I think they're pure moments of life

I don't recognize myself in people anymore

I'm just a hopeless case

And since nobody will come to claim me

I'll end up like a found object

But what have I done

But what do I look like

I've got a kind of sickness

A kind of sickness, a sickness I can't define

But what have I done

But what do I look like

I've got a kind of sickness

A kind of sickness, a sickness I can't define

But what have I done

But what do I look like

I've got a kind of sickness

A kind of sickness, a sickness I can't define

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SONG MEANING

Play Boy plunges us into the restless mind of a teenager who refuses to color inside the lines. He raids his mother’s closet, wears everything backwards, and openly embraces the most taboo corners of pop culture, all in a wild attempt to see where he might finally fit. Each shock tactic starts as a plea for acceptance, yet every sideways glance only deepens a mysterious inner ache — “une sorte de mal que je ne définis pas,” a kind of pain he cannot name.

Rather than celebrating flashy bravado, the song exposes the loneliness hiding behind the costume changes. Indochine paints a portrait of someone caught between craving attention and feeling alienated by the very world he is trying to impress. The result is a bittersweet anthem about identity, rebellion, and the fear of ending up as nothing more than “an object found.” Beneath its catchy synth-rock pulse, Play Boy asks a timeless question: how far will we go to be noticed, and what happens when even that is not enough?

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Indochine Play Boy Lyrics