Goya ! Soda ! [English translation]

Sketchy saudade

Mindless saudade

His trademark is the way he pleases

Always the first to drag his feet behind

He’s an illusion, still fresh he knows his luck

Gives the impression of leaving a length ahead

And if it’s every man for himself, it’s never up to him

And if always together, it’s never united

Loving him’s like loving the cloud, the God who shies away

(Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

I thought I’d learned

(Goya! Soda! Mindless soda)

Convinced I’d understood

(Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

But since this boy, who’s eating whom?

He bursts out laughing at the Spanish master’s painting

Devour the child, kill time, despoil the earth

The more I watch him making fun of the old man opposite

The more it tinges my desire with a ravenous jealousy

And if it’s every man for himself, it’s never up to him

And if always together, it’s never united

Loving him’s like loving the cloud, the God who shies away

(Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

I thought I’d learned

(Goya! Soda! Mindless soda)

Convinced I’d understood

(Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

But since this boy, who’s eating whom?

Never mine

Never mine, he will

Never be mine

Too young, too quick

Too fickle for me

Brushstrokes, all flesh is devoured alive for you

(Sketchy soda)

And my seventeen-year-old self is like this Goya painting

Who’s looking at whom, at what cost and who’s eating whom?

And who’s undermined you and who makes you think of people other than me?

Why swallow, then spit, why keep everything against yourself?

Because I wanted to, I paid cash for the soda

Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

I thought I’d learned

(Goya! Soda! Mindless soda)

Convinced I’d understood

(Goya! Soda! Sketchy soda)

His nose in his cola, just a chaos kid

• Artist:Christine and the Queens
• Album:Chris