Alain Souchon - Foule Sentimentale - Sentimental Crowd


"Oh la la la" life in pink ("vie en rose" is an expression that expresses a "perfect life")
The pink that we are offered (proposed)
To have quantities of things
That make us envy other things
"Aïe" (ouch), we are made believing
That happiness is to have
To have our closets full of it
Derisions (mockery) of us derisory (ridiculous) because

Sentimental crowd
We're thirsty for ideal
Attracted by stars, sails
Only non-commercial things
Sentimental crowd
You have to see how we're talked to
How we're talked to

Released
From these cardboard boxes
Washed up people, out of order
Sad and without advantages
We are inflicted (imposed)
Desires that afflict us
We are taken, talking nonsense, as soon as we're born
For the idiots that we are
Of

Sentimental crowd
With thirst for ideal
Attracted by stars, sails
Only non-commercial things
Sentimental crowd
You have to see how we're talked to
How we're talked to

We are (imposed) Claudia Schieffer
We are (imposed) Paul-Loup Sulitzer
Oh the pain that it is done to us
And that ravages (devastated) the moukère ("moukére" means "woman" in Arabic, mostly used to talk about housewives)
From the sky descends
A desire that pleases us
For tomorrow our pale children
Something better, a dream, a horse

Sentimental crowd
We're thirsty for ideal
Attracted by stars, sails
Only non-commercial things
Sentimental crowd
You have to see how we're talked to
How we're talked to