Comptine Lyrics in English Mc Solaar

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Comptine by Mc Solaar from French to English.
You can sleep easy
I'm looking after the planet
I'll steal your beans
And fling the galettes
In fact, to be honest
Note that well-being's gonna vanish
So enjoy nature
Hanging around by the pallet jacks
COP 2040 will tell us to adopt the fan
Manipulated by a spin doctor
Who'll sow chaos
Basically, pollution
For cash in a briefcase
Water sold by the pipette
We're taking the cassette road
The dream was RS4s and Geishas
One ESA and, result
We're below the RSA
Drugs in the traffic
OFAST in the Captur
Zoom, tailing, go-fast
Near Ibiza the adventure ends
It's Inky Pinky Blinky
Hunting ill-gotten gains
Raid succeeded 'cause I had
The Linky meter
School memories, the Géode
A speech, a method
Don't hit the back of the skull
He won't remember the code anymore
It smells like trouble
I can't kick back
Plus, the cell reminds me too much
Of the CROUS room
I hear the angelus, the litanies
The dangers of the Anschluss
Destiny put sand
In my couscous
I fell on the ground
Not Voltaire's fault
I think of that tune
The coroner was singing
That's how, how, how
The little machine guns
That's how
Three little holes and then they're gone
That's how, how, how
The little machine guns
That's how
Three little holes and then they're gone
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SONG MEANING

Comptine feels like a bedtime story told in the wrong era: MC Solaar starts by whispering a promise to “look after the planet,” only to unravel a rapid-fire list of climate deals gone sour, polluted cities, and money changing hands in shady briefcases. His trademark wordplay skips from transpalettes in warehouses to future COP summits, from designer dreams of “RS4 and Geisha” to the harsh reality of RSA welfare checks. Each reference is a snapshot of a world where water is sold by the drop, the police tail smugglers near Ibiza, and even the electric meter (Linky) becomes a snitch.

Then he flips a classic French children’s rhyme—“Ainsi font, font, font…”—into a chilling chorus about machine-guns, reminding us how easily innocence can be replaced by violence. The result is a witty yet sobering collage: playful on the surface, but underneath it warns that if we keep trading nature for cash, tomorrow’s lullabies might all end with “three little holes” instead of sweet dreams.

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