Flash Forward [English translation]

One evening, as unanounced (poof!)

I knock at my own door (knock knock)

No answer, so I turn the door handle

and listen to the bed moaning,

its springs creaking.

I push forward in the black...

...out and my camera

imprints on the sensitive

plates of my brains a vision like a slap in the face.

I feel my heartbeat

punching instantly through mach..

...two. Tick tock tick tock tick tock

as if subjected to an electroshock.

She was sandwiched between two apes

the kind you'd meet in Woodstock

and looked like a rock guitar

with two jacks.

One plugged in each of her holes1

Crack

Hey doc...2

Who do you call paranoid?

Just ask the old geezer

who is night porter at the Rox..

...y hotel if I'm just ranting.

This is here, forever on the note..

...book of my memories black...

...on white and whatever...

...I do this will come back to me like a flashback,

damn it, until it kills me.

1. there is a rather hard to translate pun here. "trou de balle" (lit. "bullet hole") is "asshole", while "trou d'obus" is just a detonation crater (the hole made by an exploding shell). So here he says "one at her shell hole, the other at her bullet hole"2. Here the character is pictured in a mental institution as he gets interviewed by a psychiatrist

• Artist:Serge Gainsbourg