Discover the story of the song > Caterpillar – Alain Souchon

The protagonist is talking about the girls in his heart who are doing construction work and using tools like hammers and jackhammers. He says that if you could see inside his chest, you might feel depressed and sing like him. The girls are compared to Caterpillar machines and the protagonist says they are wearing sexy lingerie and using mining bars in the water of Shalimar to destroy everything from their old braziers and erase memories to start over. The girls in their hearts are doing big work to make them feel like children again and the protagonist compares them to bulldozers and excavators. He says that the girls don't scare them even though they're small, because they clean out their hearts with dynamite to remove the old sweetness of cousins who asked them for the time one night in the kitchen.