À l'envers [English translation]

I've drank from all the cups

I've tasted all the glasses

I've lost face a hundred times

Without gaining anything from it

I'd really like to find my place

A castaway seeking land

To put away some anxiety

Breathe some air there

Another place, another border

Head upside down

I'll never never never do it

Disguised like a winner

Everything outside and nothing inside

Summer tan like it's winter

I've never known how to do that

I've fallen deep deep

I believed in all the zero brothers

But in the shallow jungle

The light returns a little

I'm no better than hell

Life upside down

I'll never never never do it

I've looked in all the books

Across every line vertically and horizontally

I've found nothing that delivers

I've found nothing hopeful

I haven't told you the words of others

I don't know the vocabulary

It's not enough to be sincere

There are ways and means

I'm not gifted, I don't know how to do it

The heart upside down

I'll never never never do it

• Artist:Jean-Jacques Goldman
• Album:Démodé