La Parisienne [English translation]

She been living in Paris for less than three months

But she's already got the user manual down

She uses a whole lot of words that I don't get

Rides a Vespa

Her friends have strange names, Béné, Alix, F-X, at Lise-Ange

Like that, no it's not their names that bother me, nor their gear

She's always telling me we should catch up

And that we should do brunch one of these days

That we should check out a Larry Clark expo at 104 1

Why not?

But not tomorrow as Madam is overloaded

Always glued to her Macbook

And when she tells me that we can meet up on Facebook

It's a slap in the face 2

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse 3

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

She lives in Paris, It's not that I'm criticising

It's so different, past the ring-road

No longer the same music, the same outfits

Her mother, her mates and her catholic votes

I see her less often because Madame, yeah

Is going to the seaside for Easter

Her friends have big pads, Saint-Briac

I don't know the place

Me, my bumpkin manner and my accent4

I know, that makes her right-minded friends smile

And even so I wait for her, often in the wind

I'd like her to be a bit more like she was before

But her and her Vélib, her organic tomatoes and her iPhone 5

Her Boston terrier

Me, the rain batters me

While I waste hours at her intercom

But nobody's home

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

Madam is chic

Aperatif Paris style by the Seine 6

Madam complicates her life

Trying to be bohemian

Madam is chic

American Apparel, H&M

He's a hippie chic 7

But where is she, the lady I love?

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse

I don't understand a thing she says

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

She lives in Paris

She wears white Converse

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

She lives in Paris

I think she's forgetting about me

She's got new friends

You know, new clothes

And me I hang around on the banks of the Seine

But where is she, the lady I love

I don't understand what she says anymore

She lives in Paris

I hope that nothing changes

1. Le Cent Quatre cultural centre 2. "C'est le bouquet" (literally "that's the bouquet") is more like "That takes the biscuit" or "that's the cherry on the cake" but trying to mimic the bouquet/facebook pun 3. De rigeur in Paris! 4. Not quite sure about "ganache tapache" other than they are mocking his look 5. Vélib is the hire bike scheme in Paris, much like London's "Boris Bikes" 6. Probaby an Aperol Spritz! 7. Bit of a play on Hippy chick, hippy-chic

• Artist:Christophe Maé