English Translation of "Mon Ego" by M (Matthieu Chedid)

 M (Matthieu Chedid) - Mon Ego Lyrics

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Number one, I hold on, 

Like a dumb icon

With an aluminum look, 

A minimum, a minimum 

Megalomaniac costume 

Without even a melody, 

Satan temps me, but I escape in time, 

Right away… right away 

I’m going to have a few words… 

A few words with my ego!  

I’ve only thought about myself for months, 

Thought only about indulging myself*,

The slightest reflection for me 

The smallest puddle is for my face 

I’m going to have a few words… 

A few words with my ego!  

Right away!

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*Right, so to “gaze at one’s navel” is indulge oneself or be egocentric or self obosessed. The literal translation of this line is “my navel turns from my eye”. So he’s gazing at his navel so much that his navel is looking away.  

Song: Je Suis Une Cigarette

Song: Je Suis Une Cigarette(I am a cigarette)

Artist: >M<

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I smoke, like I breath 

Like a chimney, no, it's way worse 

Oxygen is an old memory 

My lungs, touch them if you dare! 

The pollution doesn't help things

Life isn't always great 

When I'm on the verge of nausea 

I crush the tip in the ashtray 

On the edge of a road in a sewer 

I smile yellow, so rather than looking at my teeth 

I shut my mouth most of the time 

I confess, it's very cumbersome, it's very cumbersome 

Because I am a cigarette, 

I burn from head to toe 

And I pray for this to end 

At the last match, I crack 

It's 3 in the morning, no one is out 

Except a smoke, but what am I going to do

I break in the hand on the edge of the earth 

The sport, I become breathless at the mere though of it 

Without even having to give it a go

I run 100 meters, give me a break, give me a break

Because I am a cigarette, 

I burn from head to toe 

And I pray for this to end 

At the last match, I crack 

Guilty, in the morning or the evening, 

A cartridge between my fingers 

I smoke while thinking about tomorrow 

With my tip of the cigarette butt stinging 

And my ideas ultra light 

I create a tobacco hell

I watch myself again in a coffin of matches

With writing on the plaque, ''cigarette smoker''

Cigarette smoker, cigarette smoker

Because I am a cigarette, 

I burn from head to toe 

And I pray for this to end 

At the last match, I crack 

Translation of ''A Tes Souhaits'' by -M-

Song:  A Tes Souhaits (To Your Wishes)

Artist: -M-

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Your wishes, they're for others 

Your wish to be another 

Your wishes you keep them for yourself  

Your wishes no one hears 

Like a thought kleenex

Like an excuse 

An old reflex 

To your wishes*

To your wishes 

To your wishes 

To your loves

For you, I think they're there everyday

Your wishes, you disguise them

Your wishes, they haunt you 

Your wishes, you arouse them too much

Your wishes always get stuck into you

While you're beautiful 

So much better 

Than all these strangers

To your wishes 

To your wishes 

To your wishes 

To your love

For you, I think they're there everyday

*This is a play on words, as the phrase “à tes souhaits” is also used as a toasting phrase, similar to ''cheers” or “to all your best wishes”. One would say, "to your health" in English. 

Translation of ''A Celle qui Dure'' by -M-

I often walk
with my heart on a leash
Otherwise while walking
my heart would abandon me


So I play, clever,
Dressed up beautifully
as your prince
I smile at fate


This is where I think
Of the one who lasts


When I seize the darling
while moving*, on the end
which I dry the drops on her forehead, I boil
I tell myself maybe it's her
My woman, my lady
My heart races, like the faithful
Engine of my diesel


So I think
Of the one who lasts


The one who gets half naked
in less than two minutes
Already showing her ass
He deals with it... shh!


So I think
Of the one who lasts
Of the one...




*The lyrics ''je saisis la belle au bond'' are a play on words with the phrase ''saisir la balle au bond,'' which means to seize an opportunity.