J'ai 12 ans [English translation]

I'm twelve years old, mama

I'm not afraid of blood

I'm not a child any more

Who do you take me for?

I've got to hurry up and live my life, mama

I've already found my first grey hair

I'm twelve years old, mama

I don't have much time

I don't know if you understand

How I feel

When I see rockets passing in the heavens

I say to myself: we're going to taste them before long

When I watch TV

They only talk about pollution

And overpopulation

Maybe the atom bomb

Will be the best remedy

To the misery on earth

Naturally

You only watch telenovellas, mama

You don't know what's going on in the universe

I'm twelve years old, mama

I need money

I could take a lover

Like in your time

What am I going to do

To make a living, mama?

I don't want to study for nothing until I'm thirty years old

Today at school, they told us about

The possibilities of life

In other galaxies

Yes

They also showed us

A movie, where you could see

How dragonflies mate

What's life?

I don't want

To have children, mama

I need to start taking the pill

I'm twelve years old, mama

I don't have much time

I don't know if you understand

How I feel

When I see rockets passing in the heavens

I hope that one day I'll be able to leave and get there

I'm twelve years old, mama