| Diana tu n’es qu’une enfant
| Diana you are just a child
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| Mais déjàl'amour t’attend
| But already love is waiting for you
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| On t’a vu poser ton front
| We saw you put your forehead
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| Sur l'épaule d’un garçon
| On a boy's shoulder
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| Donne-lui ce qu’il attend
| Give him what he expects
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| Donne-lui tes dix-sept ans
| Give him your seventeen
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| La vie passe vite oh Diana
| Life goes fast oh Diana
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| Chez toi la lumière luit
| In you the light shines
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| Tu dors seule dans ton lit
| You sleep alone in your bed
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| Pourquoi tant de nuits gâchées
| Why so many wasted nights
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| L’amour n’est pas un péché
| love is not a sin
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| Tant de filles qui l’on cru
| So many girls who believed him
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| Pleurent leurs années perdues
| Cry their lost years
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| La vie passe vite oh Diana
| Life goes fast oh Diana
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| Ta fenêtre s’est ouverte
| Your window has opened
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| Tu te penches, forme blanche
| You bend down, white form
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| Et dans l’ombre deux colombes
| And in the shadow two doves
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| Tes mains soudain s’envolent
| Your hands suddenly fly away
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| S’envolent, volent, volent, volent, volent
| Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly
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| Vers celui qui loin de toi
| To the one who far from you
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| Rêve aussi que tu dors dans ses bras
| Also dream that you are sleeping in his arms
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| Tu caresses doucement ses yeux
| You gently caress her eyes
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| Longuement tu frôles ses cheveux
| Long you brush her hair
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| Tout cela tu le fais en rêvant
| All this you do while dreaming
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| Mais demain tu le feras vraiment
| But tomorrow you really will
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| La vie passe vite oh Diana
| Life goes fast oh Diana
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| Vite vite oh Diana
| Quick quick oh Diana
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| Trop vite Diana | Too fast Diana |