Variations sur Marilou
Serge Gainsbourg
Variations on Marilou
In her absent gaze and her absinthe iris
While Marilou enjoys swirling menthol cuttlefish
Between two comic strip bubbles
While playing with the zipper of her Levi's
I read vice and I think of Carol Lewis
In her absent gaze and her absinthe iris
While Marilou strives to swirl menthol cuttlefish
Between two comic strip bubbles
While playing with her zipper
Half-opening her Levi's
In her absent gaze and her absinthe iris, I say
I read the vice of baby doll
And I think of Lewis Carroll
In her absent gaze and her absinthe iris
When the sound system speakers spit out
Chords of fourths and fifths
While Marilou is wearing herself out
Health, wearing herself out
To get laid, the air
When Marilou is absorbed in an absurd dream
Let her coma absorb her into obscure practices
Her pupil is absent, and her absinthe iris
Beneath her gestures is tinged with underlying ecstasies
Vice gives her gaze a salacious edge
A bit of the lava blue of her pair of Levi's
And while she exhales a menthol sigh
My mentally retarded woman lost in her physical and cerebral exile
Plays with the metal of her zipper and the coral atoll appears
She cokes a finger there, stopping at the edge of the Corolla
Is caught near the chalice of vertigo in Lewis Carroll's Alice
When Marilou is absorbed in obscure dreams
Let her coma absorb her into absurd dreams
Her pupil is absent, and her absinthe iris
Surreptitiously is tinged with pleasures in Waiting
Lost in her physical and cerebral exile
One by one she exhales feverish sighs scented with menthol
My mentally retarded woman makes the metal of her zipper tint
And Narcissus pushes vice
In the blue night of her Levi's
Arriving at the pubis, her coral sex spreading the Corolla
Caught at the edge of Vertigo's chalice, Alice sinks to the bone
In the land of Lewis Carroll's mischief
Pupils absent, absinthe iris, baby doll
Listens to her idols, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, T-Rex, Alice Cooper
Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, she's crazy about them
Thereupon this narcissus plunges with delight
In the blue night of her Levi's
She reaches the pubis and very cool with menthol
She self-controls her little orifice
Finally pushing vice to the edge of the chalice
With one finger Sex symbol spreading her Corolla
My Alice wanders against a backdrop of rock and roll
In the Land of Mischief by Lewis Carroll