LYRICS GAME

it was the good life back when you were an adventurer

when you were a lighthouse keeper

F1 driver, wrestler, or alpine skier

later it got harder when you were a guerrilla

while you were a banker, a striker

and then a camel trainer

now you're a singer

and you earn pretty good money

but sometimes when night comes, you get bored

Bernard Lavilliers

but what are you gonna do now

you’ve got no jobs left to try

Bernard Lavilliers

yeah maybe obstetrician

no, you did that in ’81

one day you sold half your earrings

that some guerrillas had given you

after you helped them beat the ruling military junta

but the guy who bought them

couldn’t leave with them

’cause they were way too heavy so you kept them

makes a really funny story to tell

maybe we tell it badly

or you’re the one who knows how to tell it

like when you were a tiger hunter

and a tiger ate one of your arms

and your arm grew back, yeah that’s how you are

Bernard Lavilliers

but what are you gonna do now

you’ve got no jobs left to try

Bernard Lavilliers

maybe helicopter pilot

no, you did that the day before yesterday

la la an avalanche

in Haute-Savoie and a dam that just burst

we need to call Bernard Lavilliers

but what are we gonna do

a volcano just woke up

quick, let’s call Bernard, he’ll have an idea

and even if he can’t he’ll play us a little song

and people won’t be unhappy

while their houses burn down

one foot in a boot, one foot in a flip-flop

a dumbbell in one hand, with the other he wrote poems

he wrote the Quran, the Kama Sutra, the paperbacks

but nobody can prove it, maybe

Bernard Lavilliers

you’ve already read every book

to read a new one you gotta write one

Bernard Lavilliers

you even wrote “Il tape sur des bambous”

but you know we don’t give a f*ck

you’re a mix of Indiana Jones, Leo Ferré, and Garcimore

but less dead

they say your real name was Nick Caragua

and later they named the country after you

and if one day you’re too muscular and it becomes illegal

and if one day they throw you in jail

I’ll come get you

with all your kids, we’ll hold hands

and we’ll make a friendship chain, yeah

all around the earth

Bernard Lavilliers

you even met MacGyver back when you were a hairdresser

Bernard Lavilliers

you’re half from Saint-Étienne and half Colombian

and half Spanish and half Jamaican

and half Shaolin and half an Indian chief

Bernard Lavilliers

and half Puerto Rican, we almost forgot that