| Vous calculez le cours du temps l’an prs,
| You calculate the course of time to the nearest year,
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| En ravageant votre condition moindre frais,
| By ravaging your condition less expensively,
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| Pensez vous vivre une vie de conscient,
| Do you think you live a conscious life,
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| Dcids compter les secondes pour de bon.
| Decided to count the seconds for good.
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| Il faut brler cette compilation de dbris qui amoncellent,
| This compilation of piling up debris must be burned,
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| Tous ces lambeaux dverni.
| All these shreds unvarnished.
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| Balayez les porches de vos maisons,
| Sweep the porches of your houses,
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| Sciez les barreaux de vos prisons.
| Saw off the bars of your prisons.
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| C’est du gchis,
| It's garbage,
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| On se parle peine,
| We barely speak to each other,
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| On se taille les veines,
| We cut our veins,
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| C’est un cercle maudit,
| It's a cursed circle,
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| Un monceau de haine auquel on s’enchaine.
| A heap of hate that we chain ourselves to.
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| Priv d’une propre histoire,
| Deprived of its own history,
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| La bouche ouverte,
| The open mouth,
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| On regarde les trains passer,
| We watch the trains go by,
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| Menotts au comptoir,
| Handcuffed to the counter,
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| On compte en choeur les mouches crases.
| The squashed flies are counted in chorus.
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| Pas le moindre clair,
| Not the slightest clear,
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| Que des yeux vides et schs,
| Only empty and dry eyes,
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| Il faudrait faire la poussire et vider le grenier.
| The attic would have to be dusted and emptied.
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| Le pouvoir de se laisser aller
| The power to let go
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| Tant au moins se consoler mais mme sans avoir rien perdre,
| At least to console themselves but even without having lost anything,
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| On ne peut qu’admirer car sans mme tre pauvres,
| One can only admire because without even being poor,
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| Ou lamins,
| Or rolls,
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| Vous attirez des regards de piti.
| You attract pitying glances.
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| Derniers l o en soit,
| Last where ever,
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| Vous devriez tirer les premiers,
| You should shoot first,
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| Juste l,
| Just there,
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| On a le droit de rver. | We have the right to dream. |