| Ils s’affrontaient par dizaine
| They clashed by dozens
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| Une équipe, un capitaine
| One team, one captain
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| Le soleil droit sur leurs beaux contours
| The sun right on their beautiful outlines
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| Fièrement là et le souffle court
| Proudly there and short of breath
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| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
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| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
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| Et dessous ma peau l’agrès
| And under my skin the apparatus
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| Qu’on les pensait qu’on l’aimait
| That we thought them that we loved him
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| Récréation au fond de la cour
| Backyard Recess
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| Et c’est depuis que je fuis la foule
| And it's been since I've been running away from the crowd
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| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
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| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
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| Je suis forever machin-chose, ever, ever
| I'm forever thing, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Les yeux fermés, porte close, ever ever
| Eyes closed, door closed, ever ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Ils ne se souvenaient jamais
| They never remembered
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| Et mon prénom s’oubliait
| And my name was forgotten
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| D’autres surnoms inventés pour rire
| Other nicknames invented for fun
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| Je suis l’enfant qui s’en va écrire
| I am the child who goes to write
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| Et c’est pour ça que je ne peux vanir
| And that's why I can't vanish
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| Et c’est pour ça que je ne peux venir
| And that's why I can't come
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| Car elle savait cet attrait
| Because she knew this attraction
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| La santé qui m'échappait
| The health that eluded me
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| Là tout au fond une rêveuse qui court
| There in the back a dreamer running
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| Là tout au fond une rêveuse qui court
| There in the back a dreamer running
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| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
|
| Pour qui reviennent ces heures de parcours?
| Who are these hours of travel for?
|
| Je suis forever machin-chose, ever, ever
| I'm forever thing, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Les yeux fermés, porte close, ever ever
| Eyes closed, door closed, ever ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever
| Ever, ever, ever, ever
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| Ever, ever, ever, ever | Ever, ever, ever, ever |