Le bal des Laze [English translation]

I will be hanged tomorrow morning

My life wasn't meant

For the castles

Everything happened on that June night

There was a party given

At the castle

In the Laze castle,

The largest ball in London,

Lord and Lady de Laze

Were receiving the high society

Diamonds, rubies, topazes

And white long dresses.

Hidden in the garden

I was clenching my fists

I was watching as they danced

Jane and her fiancé

I will be hanged tomorrow at dawn

That's a pity for the girl

Of this castle

As I think she liked the love

That we were making, alone

Far from the castle

In the Laze castle

For Jane's twentieth birthday,

Lord and Lady de Laze

Had received the Queen

Me, the fool people stared at

I was seething with hate

Hidden in the garden

I was clenching my fists

I was watching as they danced

Jane and her fiancé

I will be hanged tomorrow morning

It will take up barely four lines

In the newspapers

I am just a common assassin

A vagrant unworthy

Of this castle

In the Laze castle,

Maybe that Jane

As they put me down

Will feel a little sorrow

But my last sentence

Will be to pity myself

Since she will be given

Another fiancé

And I won't be able

To eliminate that one

• Artist:Michel Polnareff