I Don't Speak the Language

I was a banker

Family man

Working in Paris

When I began

Living my daydreams

I left my wife

Sailed for the islands

To start a new life

Down in the tropics, a colourful world

Green of the ocean and brown native girls

Now I'm an artist and I see nothing wrong

To paint Tahitian without her sarong, oh no

You know I don't speak the language

But I still understand

It's in the move of her body

And in the touch of her hand

You know I don't speak the language

Am I a madman

To follow the sun

When it's every man's dream

To do what I've done?

Oh, no needs, no worries and no sense of time

She's Polynesian and she is all mine

Today I'll paint her in yellows and reds

Tonight we'll make love with stars overhead, oh no

You know I don't speak the language

But I still understand

It's in the move of her body

And in the touch of her hand

You know I don't speak the language

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You know I don't speak the language

But I still understand

It's in the move of her body

And in the touch of her hand

You know I don't speak the language

I left the tempo

Of civilized man

To dance the tango

Utopian

Mmm, how can I leave here, how can I go back?

The life here is so aphrodisiac

Her eyes, her lips and the smell of her hair

Make me a savage and I cease to care, oh no

You know I don't speak the language

But I still understand

It's in the move of her body

And in the touch of her hand

You know I don't speak the language

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