| Haut perché, là-haut l’escalier
| High perched, up there the stairs
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| Dans ma tête, j’ai choisi de grimper
| In my head I chose to climb
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| Par habitude, la solitude me conduit
| By habit, loneliness leads me
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| Vers ma mémoire, je m’enfuis
| Towards my memory, I flee
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| Immergée dans l’ivresse le murmure d'être ailleurs
| Immersed in drunkenness the whisper of being somewhere else
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| Je m’abîme dans l'écume d’une langue sauvage
| I sink into the foam of a wild tongue
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| Je capture une lueur
| I catch a light
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| Je fabrique une essence
| I make an essence
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| Je concocte une bombe
| I'm making a bomb
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| La solitude mon ange
| loneliness my angel
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| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
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| The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom
| The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom
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| Écoute le sage qui avec chaque soleil
| Hear the wise who with every sun
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| Renouvelle sa vision, c’est par son oeil que j’ai cherché à percer le béton
| Renew his vision, it was by his eye that I sought to pierce the concrete
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| pour traverser la solitude fut longue qui dans la grande ville hurle
| to cross the loneliness was long that in the big city howls
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| Trop longtemps au hasard du vent, j’ai jeté l’espoir
| Too long in the hazard of the wind, I threw away hope
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| Peut-être en pensant qu’il me tracerait une ligne tout droit vers le point
| Maybe thinking he'd draw me a straight line to the point
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| d’horizon, mais non
| on the horizon, but no
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| Il n’y a que le silence qui réponde au silence
| Only silence responds to silence
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| Alors voici pour toi qui est caché dans l’ombre: c’est pour toi que je chante
| So here's to you who's hidden in the shadows: I sing to you
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| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
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| The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom
| The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom
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| Haut perché, là-haut l’escalier
| High perched, up there the stairs
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| Dans ma tête j’ai choisi de m'éclipser
| In my head I chose to slip away
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| Égarée dans mes images, suspendue
| Lost in my images, suspended
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| Si je m’y attarde, je vais me brûler
| If I linger on it, I'll get burned
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| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
| Here, the only confidences I make are these: my songs to the wind
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| The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom | The ways of the wind whisper songs of freedom |