Jacques Brel : Les Bourgeois

I don't know why people

(not just the French)

liked him or his songs.

He seems to me unlikable, unpleasant,

falsely semi-literate,

and quite the opposite of Georges Brassens.

He did not like pigs.

Pigs are not like like bourgeois people,

but beautiful, sweet-natured, intelligent, affectionate

- and don't get stupider as they get older.

whereas humans becoine
'progressively' colder.

Les bourgeois c'est comme les cochons

Plus ça devient vieux plus ça devient bête

Les bourgeois c'est comme les cochons

Plus ça devient vieux plus ça devient...