[Taxi Driver Aaron]

This is the translation I have managed to make up from various translations of "Moi... Lolita" with some digression of idioms and underlying meanings.

Also note that part of a successful translation entails using English words that sustain the original French meaning while making sense in English (and staying as poetic as possible). Lets face it, exact translations with words such as "I have at that" does not make sense and is not poetic.

Anyway... here is what I have found .. I don't speak French though, so someone that understands French will have to tell me if it is off or if it is B.S.


Me, my name is Lolita
Lo or just Lola
It's all the same really
Me, my name is Lolita
When I dream of wolves
It's Lola who's bleeding
When my tongue slips, I have
A crazy laugh(1), as crazy(2)
As a phenomenon
Me, my name is Lolita
Lo for life, Lo for a diluvial love

It's not my fault
And when I give my tongue to the cat(3)(3a)
I see the others
All ready to throw themselves at me
It's not my fault, not mine
If I hear all around me
Hello, helli, you're a (L.O.L.I.T.A.)
I'm Lolita

Me, my name is Lolita
A school-girl in stockings(4)
The color of methylene blue [stockings](5)
Me, my name is Lolita
Quick-tempered and not
Half cotton half wool(6)
Lips sealed not to tell
To Mom I'm a phenomenon
Me, my name is Lolita [as a phenomenon]
Lo for life, Lo for a diluvial love

***Repeat Refrain (x2)***
It's not my fault
And when I give my tongue to the cat(3)(3a)
I see the others
All ready to throw themselves at me
It's not my fault, not mine
If I hear all around me
Hello, helli, you're a (L.O.L.I.T.A.)
I'm Lolita

***LO - LI - TA (x8)***

***Repeat Refrain (x4)***
It's not my fault
And when I give my tongue to the cat(3)(3a)
I see the others
All ready to throw themselves at me
It's not my fault, not mine
If I hear all around me
Hello, helli, you're a (L.O.L.I.T.A.)
I'm Lolita

1. A laughing fit
2. Line can also translate to "I am insane, I laugh insane"
3. French idiom meaning to give up (guessing)
3a. Line can also translate to "And if I don't know what to do anymore"
4. OR school girl from the waist down; hence 'student below'
5. Blue can also mean blue in French; it is the color of innocense (in France)
6. "Mi-laine Mi-coton" is a nickname for Mylene - Mylene Farmer wrote the song