| voix chargées de crécelle, enfermées sur le monde qui en ont vu tellement.
| Rattle-laden voices, locked in the world that's seen so much.
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| lucine éponge, lave le sang.
| lucine sponge, wash away the blood.
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| rien ne sert de savoir si mâle ou femelle.
| there is no point in whether male or female.
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| de compter les coups de pelle qui peinent un coeur brûlant.
| to count the shovel strokes that toil a burning heart.
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| ils ne seront jamais loin.
| they will never be far.
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| brilles arides qui attendent leur pauvre tour.
| arid shines awaiting their poor turn.
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| lucine éponge, lave le sang.
| lucine sponge, wash away the blood.
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| tiens, tenailles qui serrent encore et toujours mais ne rendent jamais.
| here, pincers that squeeze again and again but never give back.
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| labre bas.
| low wrasse.
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| le ventre vide, lucine regarde vers le cieux.
| with an empty stomach, Lucine looks up to the heavens.
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| la lune suppliant le géant.
| the moon pleading with the giant.
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| si vide, lucine, envieuse, attend.
| so empty, lucine, envious, waits.
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| enterre-les donc encore!
| bury them again!
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| enterre, lucine, si bien.
| bury, lucine, so well.
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| personne n’en saura rien.
| no one will know.
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| resserre, lucine, les liens.
| tightens, lucine, the links.
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| tu les envies si fort.
| you crave them so badly.
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| nul autre ne le tient.
| no one else holds it.
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| même le plus maudit.
| even the most cursed.
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| dis le désir si obsédant.
| say the desire so haunting.
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| hithyie ne fait pas de détour.
| hithyie does not detour.
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| lucine se ment, passe son tour.
| Lucine lies to herself, passes her turn.
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| ceux qui furent bannis, puniront sans merci.
| those who were banished will punish mercilessly.
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| les si mauvaises chairs, les marâtres
| the so bad flesh, the stepmothers
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| un seul cri sorti d’une bouche bée.
| a single cry from a gaping mouth.
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| sur les 800 âmes du marais sourd.
| on the 800 souls of the deaf marsh.
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| infante et fils, l’un fend l’autre.
| infanta and son, one splits the other.
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| lucine se ment, rêve trop lourd.
| Lucine lies to herself, dream too heavy.
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| bas,
| low,
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| le ventre vide, lucine regarde vers le cieux.
| with an empty stomach, Lucine looks up to the heavens.
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| la lune suppliant le géant.
| the moon pleading with the giant.
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| si vide, lucine, envieuse, attend.
| so empty, lucine, envious, waits.
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| exhausse le voeu, compte le creux.
| grant the wish, count the hollow.
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| crève le coeur de lucine, crève-le!
| burst Lucine's heart, burst it!
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| dis-leur qu’ils m’ont oubliée.
| tell them they forgot me.
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| notre heure est belle à pleurer.
| our hour is beautiful to cry.
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| tu m’effeures, je suis là, petit corps.
| you touch me, I'm here, little body.
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| je suis là, reste encore.
| I'm here, stay again.
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| ton odeur me plaît bien.
| I like your smell.
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| tu sommeilles. | you are sleeping. |
| ça me rend à peine.
| it hardly makes me.
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| reste encore.
| keep staying.
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| compte les tombes, compte les tombes de junon.
| count the graves, count the graves of juno.
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| plante le pieu, comble le creux.
| plant the stake, fill the hollow.
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| crève le coeur de lucine, crève-le!
| burst Lucine's heart, burst it!
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| exhausse le voeu, compte le creux.
| grant the wish, count the hollow.
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| crève le coeur de lucine, crève-le! | burst Lucine's heart, burst it! |