| De grands cieux gris inquiets
| Great Gray Troubled Skies
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| Clouent le jour baln? | Nail the baln day? |
| aire au sol.
| floor area.
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| L’homme avance parmi les dunes
| The man advances among the dunes
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| Il chemine en se balan? | He walks swaying? |
| ant
| ant
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| Il se souvient du Music Hall
| He remembers the Music Hall
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| Du long couloir en entonnoir
| From the long funnel corridor
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| O? | Where? |
| la foule se d? | the crowd turns away |
| vidait
| emptied
|
| Les robes ne tenant qu'? | Dresses only holding? |
| un fil
| a wire
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| Et le trottoir mouill?, mouill?.
| And the sidewalk wet, wet?
|
| Il avance parmi les dunes
| He advances among the dunes
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| Gomina battue par le vent
| Windswept Gomina
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| Il pense qu’il est huit heures du soir
| He thinks it's eight o'clock at night
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| Et qu’il circule dans le couloir
| And he walks down the hall
|
| O? | Where? |
| les? | them? |
| paules bruissent en glissant
| shoulders rustle as they slide
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| La foule se place au coeur des dunes
| The crowd takes place in the heart of the dunes
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| La mer applaudit bruyamment.
| The sea clapped loudly.
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| «Tu ne sais pas lui dire adieu «Lui a-t-elle dit hier au soir
| "You don't know how to say goodbye to him" she said to him last night
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| «Tu n’verras pas si je pars
| "You won't see if I leave
|
| Ma route ne passe pas par tes yeux
| My road does not pass through your eyes
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| Dans ta t? | In your t? |
| te, c’est huit heures du soir
| you, it's eight o'clock in the evening
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| A jamais, ici ou ailleurs
| Forever, here or elsewhere
|
| C’est le velours du grand couloir
| It's the velvet of the great hall
|
| Qu’on trouverait, si on t’ouvrait le c? | What would we find, if we opened your c? |
| ur «.
| ur ".
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| Au Casino qui toise les dunes
| At the Casino that looks down on the dunes
|
| S'?veillent les machines, hoquetant,
| The machines wake up, gasping,
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| Quelques orphelins de la lune
| Some Orphans of the Moon
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| S’att?lent d? | Are striving to |
| j? | I |
| consciencieusement
| conscientiously
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| A cumuler de l’infortune
| To accumulate misfortune
|
| Un grand caf? | A big cafe? |
| serr? | tight? |
| l’attend
| waiting for him
|
| Pr? | Pr? |
| s des machines qui cliqu? | s machines that click? |
| tent
| tent
|
| En entrant, il voit la moquette
| As he enters he sees the carpet
|
| Et il voit des lumi? | And he sees lights? |
| res d’avant.
| stay ahead.
|
| «Tu ne sais pas leur dire adieu
| "You don't know how to say goodbye to them
|
| Ni? | Neither? |
| ces grandes lettres rouges
| those big red letters
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| Ni au d? | Neither to the d? |
| sordre des entractes
| order of intermissions
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| Ni aux rideaux qui vont flottant
| Nor to the curtains that go fluttering
|
| Tu te souviens du Music Hall
| Do you remember the Music Hall
|
| De rires et de gorges serr? | Laughter and tight throats? |
| es Et du froissement des? | es And of the rustling of? |
| paules
| shoulders
|
| Et dehors, le trottoir mouill? | And outside, the wet sidewalk? |
| «.
| “.
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| Boulevard maritime, la maison
| Boulevard maritime, the house
|
| Au c? | At the heart |
| ur d’autres maisons muettes
| ur other dumb houses
|
| Bouches closes une fois l'?t? | Mouths closed once the? |
| pass?
| pass?
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| La table mise, la femme fluette
| The table set, the slender woman
|
| L’assiette qu’il n’y a qu'? | The plate that there is only? |
| r? | r? |
| chauffer
| heat
|
| Et l’hier soir qui vibre encore
| And last night that still vibrates
|
| Des quelques v? | Of the few v? |
| rit?s brass? | rit?s brewed? |
| es Il lui pardonne sans un effort
| es He forgives her without an effort
|
| C'?tait trop vrai pour le toucher.
| It was too real to touch.
|
| Ils s’embrassent, elle part travailler
| They kiss, she goes to work
|
| Elle a le pardon du fant? | She has the child's forgiveness? |
| me Et l’espoir ind? | me And hope ind? |
| boulonn? | bolted? |