Guizmo - Le Café (english translation) lyrics

[Frist verse] It starts with the purchase of a cigarette pack To be fashionable, you need tobacco, women, parties So you are hanging around Paris, on the lookout The trendy bars are all around and if you wanna drink you just have to ask But Paris is far and you spotted a coffeeshop in your neighbourhood It isn't so bad, from now you will be there all the time Smoking pack after pack While you feel like you are having fun All you do is getting lost Your girl feels bad and wants to dump you It's dangerous You don't even know that you will end up like a bar pillar At the beginning it's just some ciggs, some mates in the neighbourhood It is the afterwork meeting, just to chill out in the evening It is the right time to spend money and screaming with joy With a black coffee or a decaf' Every day our teeth are getting worse If you can't stay late, We'll see you tomorrow anyway, that's it We are in the vicious circle , we can't live without it We got used to drink but we stood there, in the coffeeshop Now we are recieving subsidies, it's not the afterwork meeting anymore Na, it's the meeting of the unemployed who are called «scums» We are not young anymore: we are already 25 Sitting in the coffeeshop, all what we wanna do is earning a lot of money It has been 10 years now since we know the boss: we can come to an arrangement Not enough money for the pinball, no problem, he will give us credit We are regular, since when? We don't even remember Meanwhile I am ordering a beer and I am having fun about Lucien He is experienced, nearly 20 years since he's been in the coffeeshop 15 years since his wife left him 10 years since he doesn't realize the time pa**ing by He is talking to himself, staring into emptiness He thinks he's finding relief when he is drinking, actually he's just done Let me explain it to you: he is just one of these guys who have been trapped by the coffeshop Cause when his wife left him, it was there to calm him down In deep depression, he decided to give up everything, he decided To drink the night to forget about tomorrow But tomorrow he needs to keeps on going because he's an alcoholic He's drowning his pain in alcohol and without it he can't sleep anymore This coffeeshop is dangerous, its smell of cold tobacco, its bingo tickets on the floor and the drunk people who are yelling As the years pa** by, the vice is tightening I saw many horse betting players getting broke when they thought they were getting money The coffeeshop has trapped Jefferson When he is winning he is a star, however when the horses are lagging behind he is nobody anymore He got f**ed by the FDJ But you only see him thinking when he has lost a lot of money But like all bettors, he's trapped How many times have I heard him saying «I am not betting on horses anymore»? Coupled order, quinté plus, he has to play again 10 years later you are still an addict and your family got involved They don't eat anything, but you are betting on a daily basis You are betting, your kids are missing you, but it doesn't change anything for you And you are betting Bettors, alcoholics, addicted to the games and pa**engers To the coffeeshop you should never bound [Outro] If ever you see Kery James, tell him that the coffeeshop got me It all started with a pack of ciggs, and when you add alcohol it becomes a real mess You can't live without it, you don't get tired to it You are living in excess, and you are not hiding it Tell him that the coffeeshop got me Everything started with a pack of ciggs, and when you add alcohol it becomes a real mess You can't live without it, you don't get tired to it You are living in excess, and you are not hiding it