| Le balancier des hanches
| The pendulum of the hips
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| La poitrine qui penche
| The leaning chest
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| Flou souvenir des pleins des creux
| Fuzzy memory of the fullness of the hollows
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| Les doigts longs les mains blanches
| The long fingers the white hands
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| Disparus sous les manches
| Disappeared under the sleeves
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| Rideau tir sur les cheveux
| Curtain shot on the hair
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| La bouche qu’on enterre
| The mouth we bury
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| Qui ne doit que se taire
| Who must only be silent
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| Le monde interdit pour les yeux
| The forbidden world for the eyes
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| Sur ce corps qui s’efface
| On this fading body
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| J’ai regard en face
| I looked in the face
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| L’hypocrisie offerte Dieu
| The hypocrisy offered by God
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| J’ai attendu attendu
| I waited waited
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| Et je l’ai aperue
| And I saw her
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| La femme cache sous le tissu
| The woman hides under the fabric
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| Elle semblait absente
| She seemed absent
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| Sous sa toile de tente
| Under his tent
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| Sous son camouflage aguerri
| Under his seasoned camouflage
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| Une infime chanette
| A tiny chain
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| La retenait secrte
| Kept her secret
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| Prisonnire de son mari
| Prisoner of her husband
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| Dans cet avion norme
| In this plane standard
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| Qui survolait les formes
| Who flew over the forms
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| Dcoupes du golfe Persique
| Persian Gulf Cutouts
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| Cette femme fantme
| This ghost woman
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| Linceul et monochrome
| Shroud and Monochrome
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| Me rendait triste c’est classique
| Made me sad that's classic
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| J’ai attendu attendu
| I waited waited
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| Et je l’ai aperue
| And I saw her
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| La femme cache sous le tissu
| The woman hides under the fabric
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| Depuis Abu Dhabi
| From Abu Dhabi
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| Elle gardait l’habit
| She kept the dress
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| Intgral et ne parlait pas
| Full and did not speak
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| Mais surveillait le sol
| But watched the ground
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| Qui filait sous le vol
| Which slipped under the flight
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| Comme une route sous les pas
| Like a road underfoot
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| Et soudain elle prit
| And suddenly she took
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| La main de son mari
| Her husband's hand
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| Il s’tait pass quelque chose
| Something had happened
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| Elle arracha le voile
| She tore off the veil
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| Jeta la longue toile
| Throw down the long web
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| Et je vis sa mtamorphose
| And I saw his metamorphosis
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| Les cheveux librs
| Free hair
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| Les genoux desserrs
| loose knees
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| Elle tait redevenue femme
| She had become a woman again
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| Nous venions de franchir
| We had just crossed
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| Les portes de l’empire
| The Gates of Empire
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| Et les barrires de sa flamme
| And the bars of his flame
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| Elle embrassa velours
| She kissed velvet
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| Son mari son amour
| Her husband her love
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| Que j’avais pris pour un gelier
| That I took for a jellier
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| J’ai vu qu’elle tait libre
| I saw she was free
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| En fragile quilibre
| In delicate balance
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| Entre la chane et le collier
| Between the chain and the necklace
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| J’ai vu qu’elle tait belle
| I saw that she was beautiful
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| Au nom de toutes celles
| On behalf of all those
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| Qui n’ont pas pu se dlier
| Who couldn't untie
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| J’ai attendu attendu
| I waited waited
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| Et elle est apparue
| And she appeared
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| La femme vade de son tissu | The woman wanders from her cloth |