| «Nous n’irons pas plus loin», te dit le capitaine
| "We won't go any further," the captain tells you
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| Trop d’obstacles aujourd’hui pour gagner l’horizon
| Too many obstacles today to reach the horizon
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| Des baleines puises gmissent sur la grve
| Exhausted whales moan on the beach
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| Leur sang couvre des bouches comme autant d’hameons
| Their blood covers mouths like so many hooks
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| Comme autant de collines occultant l’horizon
| Like so many hills obscuring the horizon
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| De crtes insensibles l’adagio des plaines
| From insensitive crests the adagio of the plains
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| «Je suis vraiment navr «, te dit le capitaine
| "I'm really sorry", the captain tells you
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| Et tu sens qu’il dit vrai et qu’il a le cњur bon.
| And you feel that he is telling the truth and that he has a good heart.
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| Ds lors la bouche vermeille d’une femme au harpon
| From then on the vermilion mouth of a woman with a harpoon
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| Qui entre dans tes murs et saigne les baleines
| Who enters your walls and bleeds the whales
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| Te fait des mois durant ddaigner l’horizon
| Makes you scorn the horizon for months
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| Et lorsque tu le croises snober le capitaine.
| And when you meet him snub the captain.
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| Quand tu rentres chez toi, tu te dis qu’il fait bon
| When you come home, you tell yourself it's good
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| Le mensonge est partout infiltr? | The lie is infiltrated everywhere? |
| dans tes veines
| in your veins
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| Tant tu aimes goter au sang de la baleine
| So much you like to taste the blood of the whale
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| Qui d? | Who of |
| borde des lvres de la femme au harpon.
| lines the lips of the woman with the harpoon.
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| Mais un jour sur ta manche tire le capitaine
| But a day on your sleeve pulls the captain
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| Les yeux exorbits, il te dit: «Repartons «.
| Eyes bulging, he says to you, "Let's go back".
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| Il est temps de sortir du sommeil des reines
| It's time to wake up from the sleep of queens
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| Car nul ne vous attend autant que l’horizon.
| Because no one awaits you more than the horizon.
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| C’est Lob Nor qui t’espre, l’Inlandsis qui t’appelle
| It's Lob Nor waiting for you, the Inlandsis calling you
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| La Sierra Nevada qui la nuit crie ton nom
| The Sierra Nevada that at night screams your name
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| Et c’est la Grande Bleue qui rehausse le ciel
| And it's the Big Blue that lifts the sky
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| Chacun d’eux te rclame et t’offre l’horizon
| Each one of them claims you and offers you the horizon
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| Mais celui-ci t’chappe, stopp dans son lan
| But this one escapes you, stops in its tracks
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| Par des sommets hargneux, des valles encaisses,
| Through surly peaks, deep valleys,
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| Des villes au cњur de pierre aux formes insenses
| Stone-hearted cities of insane shapes
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| Vois, la barbe te pousse et ton pas se fait lent.
| See, the beard pushes you and your step becomes slow.
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| Et tu entends au loin les plaintes des baleines
| And you hear the cries of the whales in the distance
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| Qui avant de finir sur la grve ont sans doute
| Who before ending up on the strike have no doubt
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| Connu cet horizon don’t seul le capitaine
| Known this horizon of which only the captain
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| Espre encore pour deux que tu croises la route.
| Hope again for two that you cross the road.
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| Mais un jour au silence qui monte aux alentours
| But one day in the silence that rises around
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| Comme tes yeux se dcollent, tu sais qu’on t’a laiss?
| As your eyes peel off, do you know we left you?
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| Seul avec ton vieux rve don’t l’ombre est un vautour
| Alone with your old dream whose shadow is a vulture
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| Qui dessous tes haillons sent la chair s’asscher
| Who under your rags feels the flesh drying up
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| Et comme en de lents cercles, il va pour t’entreprendre
| And as in slow circles he goes to undertake you
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| Le dcor s’aplanit, les courbes se dfont
| Scenery flattens, curves unravel
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| Tout se dgage, oui, sans doute las de t’attendre
| Everything emerges, yes, probably tired of waiting for you
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| C’est lui qui vient toi, il est l l’horizon | It is he who comes to you, he is the horizon |