Original Text

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage,
le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre.
Les chasseurs à ma porte
comme des petits soldats
qui veulent me prendre.
 
Refrain :
Je ne veux pas travailler
Je ne veux pas déjeuner
Je veux seulement oublier
et puis je fume.
 
Déjà j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour,
un million de roses n'embaumeraient pas autant.
Maintenant une seule fleur
dans mes entourages
me rend malade.
 
(Refrain)
 
Je ne suis pas fière de ça,
vie qui veut me tuer.
C'est magnifique être sympathique
mais je ne le connais jamais.
 
(Refrain)

English Translation

Translation by genius.com

My room is in the form of a cage
The sunlight passes though the window
The bellhops at my door
Like little soldiers
That want to take me
 
I don't want to work
I don't want to have lunch
I only want to forget it
And then I smoke
 
Already, I understood the perfume of love
A million roses wouldn't smell so sweet (1)
Now a single flower in my enclosures
Drives me crazy
 
I don't want to work
I don't want to have lunch
I only want to forget it
And then I smoke
 
I am not proud of this life
That wants to kill me
It's magnificent to be nice (2)
But I have never understood it
 
I don't want to work
No
I don't want to have lunch
I only want to forget it
And then I smoke
 
I am not proud of that life
That wants to kill me
It's magnificent to be nice
But I have never understood it
 
I don't want to work
No
I don't want to have lunch
I only want to forget it
And then I smoke