I'm just a puppet
They loved the way I swayed my hips
They did until the day we met
Till I started to moist and part my lips.
I used to work in that creepy bar
Waitress the day, at night, Chicago's star
I had some pretty guys waiting for me all night long
Fucking me in their fantasies, but sure they were not that strong
Then once you came watching me on stage
And pretty soon we were engaged.
First time we kissed something was weird;
Like we didn't want the other to catch the mermaid
Maybe coz you're small for a man, or coz you're skin's so soft
But it was freaking the hell out of
Me and my friends who've been in love
With your money and what's all above.
I loved that hat you always wore
I now know you, you don't take it anymore
If I knew what you were hiding
I guess I neither would be lying
Indeed when you confess I was broken
But truth be told I was relieved not to be alone.
I'm a man changing into a girl, to be famous and loved
You're a girl changing into a man, to be rich and feared
This is not about gender, this is about fucker
This is not about tender, this is about better
Escape this bloody condition of gender and place,
This fucking Prohibition, to wear black lace.
C'est une chanson qui m'est venue d'un coup, parce que Lucile me l'avait demandé. Elle parle d'un homme travesti qui chante dans un cabaret de Chicago, au temps de la Prohibition (années 1920), et qui se fiance avec un homme qui est en fait une femme déguisée pour échapper à une condition misérable. Voilà. Héhé, désolée, j'ai des idées comme ça, des fois... Mais ça devrait plaire à Fabien, non?