All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock
Quand elle descandait la rue
They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad
Elle ressemblait à un enfant fixant ses pieds
Instead of mental hospital
But every time you tried to read a book
Mais dès qu'elle passait devant le bar
You couldn't get to page 17
Et qu'elle entendait la musique jouer
'Cause you forgot, where you were
Elle devait y entrer et chanter
So you couldn't even read
Ca devait se passer de cette façon
Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
Elle devait entrer et chanter
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
Ca devait se passer de cette façon
They're gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run run run run run run run run away
Et je disais non, non, non
Mom informed me on the phone
Et je disais non, non, non
She didn't know what to do about dad
Oh, Lady Day
Took an axe and broke the table
Aren't you glad you're married
Après que les applaudissements se soient tus
And sister, she got married on the island
Et que les gens se soient égarés
And her husband takes the train
He's big and he's fat and he doesn't even have a brain
Elle descendait du bar
They're gonna kill your sons
Et sortait pour aller
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
A l'hotel
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
Qu'elle appelait "maison"
Until they run away
Les murs étaien verdâtres
Et une salle de bains se tenait dans le hall
Creedmore treated me very good
But Paine Whitney was even better
Et je disais non, non, non
And when I flipped on PHC
Oh, Lady Day
I was so sad I didn't even get a letter
Et je disais, non, non, non
All of the drugs, that we took, it really was lots of fun
Oh, Lady Day
But when they shoot you up with thorizene on crystal smoke
You choke like a son of a gun
Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
They're gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run run run run run run run run away