PEPEE Lyrics in English Léo Ferré
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song PEPEE by Léo Ferré from French to English.
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T'avais les mains comm' des raquettes
Your hands were like snowshoes
Pépée
Pepe
Et quand j' te f'sais les ongles
And when I do your nails
J' voyais des fleurs dans ta barbiche
I saw flowers in your goatee
T'avais les oreill's de Gainsbourg
You had Gainsbourg's ears
Mais toi t'avais pas besoin d' scotch
But you didn't need scotch
Pour les r'plier la nuit
To fold them up at night
Tandis que lui ben oui
While he, well yes
Cez les Ferré
Cez les Ferré
Pépée
Pepe
T'avais les yeux comm' des lucarnes
You had eyes like skylights
Pépée
Pepe
Comme on en voit dans l' port d'Anvers
As we see in the port of Antwerp
Quand les marins ont l'âme verte
When sailors have green souls
Et qu'il leur faut des yeux d' rechange
And they need replacement eyes
Pour regarder la nuit des autres
To watch other people's nights
Comme on r'gardait un chimpanzé
As we looked at a chimpanzee
Chez les Ferré
At the Ferré’s
Pépée
Pepe
T'avais le coeur comme un tambour
You had a heart like a drum
Pépée
Pepe
De ceux qu'on voil' l' vendredi saint
Of those we see on Good Friday
Vers les trois heures après midi
Around three o'clock in the afternoon
Pour regarder Jésus-machin
To watch Jesus-thing
Souffler sur ses trent'-trois bougies
Blowing out your thirty-three candles
Tandis que toi t'en avais qu' huit
While you only had eight
Le sept avril
April 7
De soixante-huit
From sixty-eight
Pépée
Pepe
J' voudrais avoir les mains d' la mort
I would like to have the hands of death
Pépée
Pepe
Et puis les yeux et puis le coeur
And then the eyes and then the heart
Et m'en venir coucher chez toi
And come and sleep at your place
Ça chang'rait rien à mon décor
It wouldn't change anything in my decor
On couch' toujours avec la mort
We always sleep with death
On couch' toujours avec la mort
We always sleep with death
On couch' toujours avec la mort
We always sleep with death
Pépée
Pepe
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