C'Est La Vie [English translation]

You’re a dressed Lucifer, yes

With edges and pearls

You chain yourself into the fire

And say: "Come to take"

Our delicate love

Is bitter sugar

That we only want when

We no longer can

And I’m falling into the abyss on purpose

And I’m throwing myself into the fire

Tell me: "Love, no"

Even the flames will end, but the pain won’t

And you can’t kill love, but love can

Understand, I know you can do it, finish me off

I wait for the end, betray me

Then tell me: "It’s over," silence me

C'est la vie*

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

C'est la vie

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

And this strange fairy tale, then what ending does it have

It’s the greatest story ever told

We’re alone in one hundred personalities

We’re promising ourselves

"It won’t end"

And I’m always in spinning thoughts and it's enough

Our story that continues on pieces of paper

Our never-ending story that has no end

Because it returns like the devil comes to steal lives

Understand, I know you can do it, finish me off

I wait for the end, betray me

Then tell me: "It’s over," silence me

C'est la vie

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

C'est la vie

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

My love, I know

Just like you already knew

Deep emptiness and then

I know how it’ll end

Understand, I know you can do it, finish me off

I wait for the end, betray me

Then tell me: "It’s over," silence me

C'est la vie

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

C'est la vie

It’s the way

Na-na-na-na-na

C'est la vie

It’s the way

*. French for "It's life"

• Artist:Achille Lauro
• Album:1969 [2019]