Michel Delpech — Ce lundi-là song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Ce lundi-là" by Michel Delpech.
Lyrics
Quand il est descendu pour acheter des cigarettes
Jean-Pierre savait dj qu’il ne reviendrait plus jamais
Il a pens encore toute sa vie avec Michelle
Et puis il a tourn enfin le coin de la rue
Michelle aurait voulu le voir grandir dans l’entreprise
Mais lui ne se voyait pas finir ses jours au marketing
Avec dans son caf les cours de la livre sterling
Et des enfant qui lui ressembleraient de plus en plus
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l il s’en allait
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l il s’en allait
Il savait qu' huit heures la table serait mise
A ct de son assiette il y aurait ses tranquillisants
S’il fallait toutes ces saloperies pour arriver s’endormir
Ce n’tait pas la peine d’avoir trente ans
Et puis il verrait bien ce qu’il allait devenir
Mais il n’en pouvait plus de vivre dj comme un vieux
Le but de sa vie n’tait pas d’avoir un jour un compte en Suisse
Ce n’tait pas l’argent qui lui manquait pour tre heureux
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l il s’en allait
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l il s’en allait
Il revoyait encore la brasserie des «Trois dauphins»
O ses amis l’attendraient demain de midi deux heures
La crise entranerait encore des conversations sans fin
Mais demain deux heures il serait loin
Il revoyait aussi la Michelle amoureuse
Celle qui lui tlphonait trois fois par jour son travail
C’tait la vraie complicit, le vie n’tait jamais srieuse
Une de ces priodes heureuses qui ne se retrouve pas
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l il s’en allait
Voil pourquoi ce lundi-l… il s’en allait
Lyrics translation
When he went down to buy cigarettes
Jean-Pierre knew dj that he would never come back
He still has pens all his life with Michelle
And then he finally turned the corner
Michelle would have wanted to see him grow up in the company
But he didn't see himself finishing his marketing days
With in its caf the prices of the pound sterling
And children who would look more and more like him
That's why this Monday-L he was leaving
That's why this Monday-L he was leaving
He knew that eight o'clock the table would be set
At ct of his plate there would be his tranquilizers
If it took all this crap to get to sleep
It was not worth being thirty years old
And then he would see what he would become
But he could not live dj like an old man
The goal of his life was not to have one day an account in Switzerland
It wasn't the money he needed to be happy
That's why this Monday-L he was leaving
That's why this Monday-L he was leaving
He was still seeing the brewery of the "three dauphins»
O his friends would wait for him tomorrow from noon to two o'clock
The crisis would still enter endless conversations
But tomorrow two hours it would be far away
He was also seeing Michelle in love again.
The one who phoned him three times a day his work
It was the real complicity, life was never srieuse
One of those happy priodes that is not found
That's why this Monday-L he was leaving
That's why he was leaving on Monday.