| Paroles et musique originales: Wolff Ekkehardt Stein / Wolgang Gass
| Original lyrics and music: Wolff Ekkehardt Stein / Wolgang Gass
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| Adaptation française: Marc Strawzynski
| French adaptation: Marc Strawzynski
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| Il y a longtemps
| Long ago
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| Quand j'étais un enfant
| When I was a kid
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| Ma mère me racontait l’histoire d’un homme
| My mother used to tell me the story of a man
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| Venu d’ailleurs, de plus loin
| From elsewhere, from further away
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| Il disait que la vie, que le monde étaient en danger
| He said life, the world was in danger
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| Il faut s’en aller disait-il
| Gotta go he said
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| On est arrivé dans les jardins du ciel
| We've arrived in the gardens of heaven
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| J’ai marché pendant mille années
| I walked for a thousand years
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| On est arrivé sous un nouveau soleil
| We've arrived under a new sun
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| Entend chanter l'éternité
| Hear eternity sing
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| Au bout de ses doigts, il fait son chemin
| At his fingertips he makes his way
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| L’amour que tu as cherché
| The love you've been looking for
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| Si tu as suivi le Nord, c'était ton destin
| If you followed the North, it was your destiny
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| C'était ton chemin de liberté
| It was your path to freedom
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| Liberté
| Freedom
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| Les hommes n’ont pas compris
| The men did not understand
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| Et ils l’ont chassé loin du village
| And they chased him away from the village
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| Pourtant ce jour-lí, le soleil a brillé tellement fort
| Yet that day the sun shone so bright
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| Que les blés et les forêts ont brulé
| That the corn and the forests have burned
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| Et les enfants ont entendu un chant venu de la terre
| And the children heard a song from the earth
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| Qui leur disait:
| Who said to them:
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| On est arrivé dans les jardins du ciel
| We've arrived in the gardens of heaven
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| J’ai marché pendant mille années
| I walked for a thousand years
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| On est arrivé sous un nouveau soleil
| We've arrived under a new sun
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| Entend chanter l'éternité
| Hear eternity sing
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| Au bout de ses doigts, il fait son chemin
| At his fingertips he makes his way
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| L’amour que tu as cherché | The love you've been looking for |