Misogynie à part [English translation]

Misogyny notwithstanding, the wise man1 was right:

some are quite a bother, there are plenty of them,

they gather in droves.

Some are a damn nuisance, these are somewhat more refined.

And then, there is the cream of the crop:

the supreme pain in the ass.

Mine goes one better than them all,

she belongs to all three categories at once,

a true prodigy:

a bother, a damn nuisance and a supreme pain in the ass too.

She overtakes, she outshines, she surpasses everything

She pisses me off, I tell you.

O Lord, forgive my bitter words

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, she goes too far, she pushes it

She pisses me off, and I regret my lovely romance with

this little prudish2 girl the bishop pinched from me

She pisses me off, I tell you.

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, and demands that I clean my nails before I grope for her ass,

which is anything but perfect3,

and it's only charity that drives my reluctant hand

toward this killjoy, conical, grumpy ass.

She pisses me off, I tell you.

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, I say again and when

she gets over-familiar with me, she keeps her gloves on

and that displeases me.

It does not only demonstrate a great lack of tact,

it does not ease contact either.

She pisses me off, I tell you.

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, when I fall on my knees

for some typically French devotions

that make your head spin,

she thinks time has come to sing the Creed

and lays her missal wide open on my back.

She pisses me off, I tell you.

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, during fornication

she gets bored4, she gets ostensibly bored

she gets bored, I tell you

Instead of crying out "Give me more ! Harder ! Harder !"

she recites some Claudel5, yes, Claudel, no kidding,

and that really freezes me.

She pisses me off, she pisses me off, I admit this Claudel

is a true genius, an immortal poet,

I acknowledge his fame,

but trying to find in his pious works

an aphrodisiac, no, that's an utopian dream.

She pisses me off, I tell you.

1. refers to Paul Valéry, a ferocious misogynist who coined this aphorism (there are three kinds of women: the bother, the damn nuisance and the supreme pain in the ass)2. the "enfants de Marie" was a religious congregation. It became the symbol of rigid catholic education and, among other things, prudishness3. from the famous statue (from Greek meaning "beautiful buttocks")4. Apparently this issue was worrying Brassens quite a bit5. A famous poet and playwright known for his strong Christian faith

• Artist:Georges Brassens