Track of the Week

Week 1: “Rail de Musique” (Line of Music) by Stromae

CD-quality:
mp3:

Here are the lyrics, with English translation.

The lyrics are shot through with puns connecting drug slang with musical terms. FWIW, Stromae—who was still living with his mother when this album came out, and for many years thereafter—lives clean.

And here is Stromae’s tongue-in-cheek “lesson” on building the tracks to the song: