| Toujours ce sale petit brouillard
| Always that dirty little fog
|
| Toujours ce sale petit cafard
| Always that dirty little cockroach
|
| Qui vous transperce jusqu’aux os
| that pierces you to the bone
|
| Et qui se colle? | And who sticks? |
| Votre peau
| Your skin
|
| Il me semble le voir encore
| I seem to see him again
|
| Le soir o? | The evening o? |
| Son copain du port
| His Harbor Buddy
|
| Lui apporta le faux passeport
| Brought him the false passport
|
| Et son visa pour Buenos Aires
| And his visa for Buenos Aires
|
| J’ignore ce qu’il avait fait
| I don't know what he had done
|
| Je n’avais compris qu’une chose:
| I only understood one thing:
|
| Que sa derni? | What's his last? |
| Re chance? | Re luck? |
| Tait
| Tai
|
| Qu’il prenne ce navire? | Take this ship? |
| L’aube
| Dawn
|
| Et quand vint l’heure du d? | And when it was dinner time? |
| Part
| Go
|
| Je re? | I re? |
| Us son dernier regard
| Take his last look
|
| Dans le petit matin blafard
| In the pale early morning
|
| D? | D? |
| Chir? | chir? |
| Par les sir? | By sirs? |
| Nes
| Nes
|
| Toujours ce sale petit brouillard
| Always that dirty little fog
|
| Toujours ce sale petit cafard
| Always that dirty little cockroach
|
| Qui nous transperce jusqu’aux os
| Which pierces us to the bone
|
| Et qui se colle? | And who sticks? |
| Votre peau
| Your skin
|
| La passerelle? | Gateway? |
| Tait lev? | Were you up? |
| E
| E
|
| Et c’est quand je l’ai cru sauv?
| And that's when I thought he was saved?
|
| Que des hommes sont arriv? | That men have arrived? |
| S
| S
|
| Et l’on fait redescendre? | And we bring it back down? |
| Terre
| Earth
|
| J’ignore ce qu’il avait fait
| I don't know what he had done
|
| Mais, pour ne pas me compromettre
| But, not to compromise me
|
| Il passa menottes aux poignets
| He put handcuffs on his wrists
|
| Sans avoir l’air de me conna? | Without seeming to know me? |
| Tre
| Tre
|
| Et depuis qu’ils l’ont emmen?
| And since they took him away?
|
| Je pense? | I think? |
| Lui des jours entiers
| Him for whole days
|
| En regardant les longs courriers
| Looking at the long hauls
|
| Diminuer et dispara? | Decrease and disappear? |
| Tre
| Tre
|
| Toujours ce sale petit brouillard
| Always that dirty little fog
|
| Toujours ce sale petit cafard
| Always that dirty little cockroach
|
| Toujours ce sale petit brouillard
| Always that dirty little fog
|
| Toujours ce sale petit cafard
| Always that dirty little cockroach
|
| Toujours ce sale petit brouillard
| Always that dirty little fog
|
| Toujours ce sale petit cafard… | Always that dirty little cockroach... |