| Quand l’hiver a pris sa besace
| When the winter took its bag
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| Que tout s’endort et tout se glace dans mon jardin abandonn
| That everything falls asleep and everything freezes in my abandoned garden
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| Quand les jours soudain rapetissent
| When the days suddenly get shorter
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| Que les fantmes envahissent la solitude des alles
| Let ghosts invade the loneliness of the aisles
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| Quand la burle secoue les portes
| When the burle shakes the doors
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| En balayant les feuilles mortes aux quatre coins de la valle
| Sweeping the fallen leaves across the valley
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon dans ma chemine
| A cricket, a cricket, a cricket in my path
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon se met chanter
| A cricket, a cricket, a cricket starts singing
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| Il n’a pourtant dans son assiette
| However, he does not have on his plate
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| Pas la plus petite herbe verte, la plus fragile gramine
| Not the smallest green grass, the most fragile grass
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| se mettre sous la luette
| put under the uvula
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| Quand le vent souffle la tempte et qu’il est l’heure de dner
| When the wind blows the storm and it's dinner time
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| Que peut-il bien manger ou boire?
| What can he eat or drink?
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| quoi peut-il rver ou croire? | what can he dream or believe? |
| Quel espoir encore l’habiter?
| What hope still to inhabit it?
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon dans ma chemine
| A cricket, a cricket, a cricket in my path
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon se met chanter
| A cricket, a cricket, a cricket starts singing
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| Son cri n’a d’autre raison d’tre
| His cry has no other reason to be
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| Que son refus de disparatre de cet univers dsol
| That his refusal to disappear from this desolate universe
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| Pour le meilleur et pour le pire
| For better and for worse
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| Il chante comme je respire pour ne pas tre asphyxi
| He sings like I breathe so I don't suffocate
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| Sait-il au fond de sa mmoire
| Does he know deep in his memory
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| Que c’est du cњur de la nuit noire qu’on peut voir l’aube se lever?
| That it is from the heart of the dark night that we can see the dawn rising?
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon dans ma chemine
| A cricket, a cricket, a cricket in my path
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| Un grillon, un grillon, un grillon se met chanter. | A cricket, a cricket, a cricket begins to sing. |