N’est pas Gainsbourg qui veutBaudelaire ou Rimbaud
Ni poète maudit
Apollinaire ou Poe
Suffit pas d’être saoul
Ni de paraître fou
C’est pas une question de shoots
Ni de sexe ni de look

N’est pas Gainsbourg qui veut
Baudelaire ou Rimbaud
Ni poète maudit
Apollinaire ou Poe
Seulement savoir pourquoi
Tout brûle autour de soi
Pourquoi ces châteaux de sable
Qu’engloutissent les vagues
N’est pas Gainsbourg qui veut
Baudelaire ou Rimbaud
Ni poète maudit
Apollinaire ou Poe
Seulement savoir pourquoi
Faire et puis tout défaire
Et mettre tout à l’envers
Avec la même foi

N’est pas Gainsbourg qui veut
Baudelaire ou Rimbaud
Ni poète maudit
Apollinaire ou Poe
Seulement savoir pourquoi
Là-haut sur son étoile
Soufflent les vents du désert
Qui brûlent la peau et l’âme



English translation :

THERE'S ONLY GAINSBOURG


There ‘s only
Gainsbourg

Baudelaire or Rimbaud
Neither the “poète maudit”
Apollinaire or Poe
It’s not enough to
be drunk
No
appear
to be
crazy
It's not a question of shooting up
No of
sex no
of
appearances

There ‘s only
Gainsbourg

Baudelaire or Rimbaud
Neither the “poète maudit”
Apollinaire or Poe
Just
knowing
why
Everything burns around you
Why these sand castles
swallowed up by
the waves
There ‘s only
Gainsbourg

Baudelaire or Rimbaud
Neither the “poète maudit”
Apollinaire or Poe
Just
knowing
why
Make and
un-make
And putting
everything
the other way round
With the same
conviction

There ‘s only
Gainsbourg

Baudelaire or Rimbaud
Neither the “poète maudit”
Apollinaire or Poe
Just
knowing
why
Up there on his star
the desert winds
blow
burning
skin and
soul

On a good foot , I was talking today,to a man on a mission trying find his waydapper looking chap with shiny eyesthis was is what I said , this was his reply
Together - together one love we move togethertogether
- forever - one love we stick together





he took out a boom box and fired it up,every kid on the block trying turn it up.he got down deeper than I seen a before
cold rocking the block like 1984
Together - together one love we move togethertogether
- forever - one love we stick together
with a smile so big lighting up the room
he dropped a break from the top of the temple of boomeveryone was on board , the crazy trainwith the man on mission trying to explain
together overcome , together beat the drum.forever overcome , together we are one
together people, together strongforever people forever one

together people can do no wrongtogether we are one
but what was he saying , what did he mean ,you only live once in the yolo dream,lts a hustle, a grind, a rat in the raceyou can try your best and never win the race
He took off his coat and showed me his armwritten in ink ring the alarma message of hope a message of truthsing it with me if you need the proof