| Il était un homme-oiseau
| He was a birdman
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| Qui cueillit le monde rond
| Who picked the round world
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| L’ouvrit de ses doigts pipeaux
| Opened it with his slender fingers
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| L’enfouit dans son œil citron
| Buries it in her lemon eye
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| Puis déshabilla les dieux
| Then undressed the gods
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| Les fit danser dans les bois
| Made them dance in the woods
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| Les croqua de ses dents bleues
| Chewed them with his blue teeth
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| Les enivra de hautbois
| Intoxicated them with oboe
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| Picasso colombe au laurier
| Picasso dove with laurel
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| Fit Guernica la mort aux cornes
| Fit Guernica the Horned Death
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| Pour que dans un monde sans bornes
| So that in a boundless world
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| Il était un homme-fruit
| He was a fruit man
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| Qui roula dans l’herbe crue
| Who rolled in the raw grass
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| Sur une femme pétrie
| On a kneaded woman
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| Par un dieu Pan au poil dru
| By a wispy-haired god Pan
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| Femme il fendit ton chignon
| Woman he split your bun
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| D’un coup de soleil tranchant
| With a sharp sunburn
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| Le fendit comme un oignon
| Split him like an onion
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| Dans la cuisine des champs
| In the field kitchen
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| Picasso colombe au laurier
| Picasso dove with laurel
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| Fit Guernica la mort aux cornes
| Fit Guernica the Horned Death
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| Pour que dans un monde sans bornes
| So that in a boundless world
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| Il était un homme enfin
| He was a man at last
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| Prit le fruit et le croqua
| Took the fruit and bit it
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| Prit l’oiseau le fit humain
| Took the bird made him human
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| Coloriant aux éclats
| Burst coloring
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| But le temps et s’enivra
| Drank the time and got drunk
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| But le vin qui devint pur
| Drank the wine that became pure
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| Prit la cage et la brisa
| Took the cage and broke it
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| Sur la porte du futur
| On the doorstep of the future
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| Picasso colombe au laurier
| Picasso dove with laurel
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| Fit Guernica la mort aux cornes
| Fit Guernica the Horned Death
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| Pour que dans un monde sans bornes
| So that in a boundless world
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais
| The night never comes again
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| La nuit ne vienne plus jamais | The night never comes again |