Original lyrics
French
Translation
English
C'est extra
It's so great...
A leather dress like a spindle
That would have strengh without meaning to.
And inside like a sailor,
A girl who is swaying an English tune
It's so great...
A Moody Blues that sings at night
Like a bride's white satin
And in the harbour of this night
A girl who is swaying and coming to anchor
It's great, it's great,
It's great, it's great.
Hair falling like the evening
And music in the loins.
This jazz jazzing in the dark
And this evil making us feeling good
It's so great...
These hands playing the rainbow
On the guitar of life
And then those cries rising to the sky
Like a glowing cigarette,
It's great it's great,
It's extra it's extra.
Those stockings hanging high
Like the strings of a violin
And this flesh that is disturbed
By the bow that is singing my song
It's so great...
And under the barely-closed veil
This tuft of black jesus
Streaming in its cradle
Like a swimmer no longer expected,
It's great it's great,
It's extra, it's extra...
A leather dress like an oblivion
That would have strength without meaning to
And inside like a grey morning
A girl swaying in silence,
It's extra...
The moody blues that don't mind
This boombox that doesn't want to play any more
And in the music of silence
A girl swaying and coming to die,
It's so great,
It's extra...
It's so great,
It's extra...
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