Ma Jolie [English translation]

You talk to me and I don't know

Keeping the beard a little longer is becoming a current topic of debate again

You ask me how I'm doing

A quiz show typical backup question would be a better choice

And you, that understand me at a glance,

Feel there's something new already...

Ma Jolie took off 1 and no longer is she here

She says she couldn't stay

Mon ami, now I'm asking you,

Tell me if this sadness I feel will ever be gone

Are you in a hurry or can you hang around?

I was watching 'The Gladiator' for the fifth, sixth time

Even if, at this point, I feel not so much like a Spaniard,

But rather like a forward that is no longer capable to score a goal 2 .

And you, who's known me since forever,

You know that it'll need a little time

Ma Jolie took off and no longer is she here

She says she couldn't stay

Mon ami, now I'm asking you,

Tell me if this sadness I feel will ever be gone

Ma Jolie took off and no longer is she here

She says she couldn't stay

Mon ami, now I'm asking you,

Tell me if this sadness I feel will ever be gone

(She took off and no longer is she here

She couldn't stay

Now I'm asking you)

Where may she be now, ma ma ma ma ma Jolie

This sadness I feel will be gone

1. A cross-language pun is understood: lit. 'But Jolie took off' in Italian, 'My Jolie', 'My Joy', in French (the expression harks back to the oldie Michelle, ma belle, but here sounds like a senhal that stands for the real name of the woman he loves).

However the singer uses French again just below in a symmetrical way (mon ami) and, what's more, in the final verse only the French expression would make sense2. Lit. 'who is no longer capable to find the goal area', an idiom for a pooped player

• Artist:Neffa
• Album:Resistenza