Build your coffin of balsa wood Spend all that you earn When you go you are gone for good Never to return Always to thine own self be true Not to fools like me Who'll change their minds For the sake of rhyming schemes Au revoir joie, bonjour tristesse Only pain and sorrow So don't rely on the stars above Screw the universe You'd better try to live your life on earth So au revoir joie, bonjour tristesse Good times come and they go This life owes nobody happiness Only pain and sorrow So don't rely on the stars above Screw the universe You'd better try to live your life on earth I'm gonna try to live my life on earth