| Elles couraient dans les cours d’coles
| They were running in the schoolyards
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| Et irradiaient nos rves
| And radiated our dreams
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| D’un sourire impalpable
| With an impalpable smile
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| Elles partageaient leurs craintes et leurs peurs
| They shared their fears and fears
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| Et s’abandonnaient
| And gave up
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| Adosses leurs cartables
| Lean their schoolbags
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| Insouciantes et adorables
| Carefree and adorable
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| Un miroir pur qui te rend misrable
| A pure mirror that makes you miserable
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| Elles se rfugiaient dans leurs bras
| They took refuge in their arms
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| Toutes penaudes mais effrayes car
| All sheepish but scared because
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| On les a jetes
| We threw them away
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| Contre un mur
| Against a wall
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| Une une comme des compagnons d’infortune
| One like companions in misfortune
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| O est passe la magie
| Where is the magic
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| Seraient-ce ces chevaliers qui clous au lit
| Could it be those knights who bedridden
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| Nous drobent et rossent
| We rob and thrash
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| Nos enfants tant aimes et propagent
| Our beloved and propagated children
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| Cette torpeur aveugle
| This blind torpor
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| C’tait pourtant de l’or
| It was gold though
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| C’tait pourtant de l’or
| It was gold though
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| C’tait pourtant bien de l’or qui coulait
| Yet it was gold that was flowing
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| Au bout de leurs doigts
| At their fingertips
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| Mais c’est de l’encre qui gt ds lors
| But it's ink that gt ds then
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| Au creux au fond de leurs reins
| Deep down in their loins
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| Mais c’est de l’or qui gt ds lors
| But it's gold that goes when
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| Qui brille encore
| who still shines
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| Et c’est leur corps qui gt encore
| And it's their body that still gt
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| Au fond au creux de cette marre.
| At the bottom in the hollow of this pond.
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| C’tait pourtant bien de l’or qui coulait
| Yet it was gold that was flowing
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| Au bout de leurs doigts
| At their fingertips
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| Mais c’est de l’encre qui gt ds lors
| But it's ink that gt ds then
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| Au creux au fond de leurs reins
| Deep down in their loins
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| Mais c’est de l’or qui gt ds lors
| But it's gold that goes when
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| Qui brille encore
| who still shines
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| Et c’est leur corps qui gt encore
| And it's their body that still gt
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| Au fond au creux de cette marre. | At the bottom in the hollow of this pond. |