| Tu vois, ça n’arrive pas qu’aux autres
| See, it doesn't just happen to other people
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| Ni aux ahuris qui roulent à deux-cents
| Nor to the bewildered who drive at two hundred
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| Et si tu cherches à qui la faute
| And if you find out whose fault it is
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| C’est juste un accident
| It's just an accident
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| C'était un jour comme un autre
| It was a day like any other
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| Tu sais bien qu’on est jamais trop prudent
| You know you can never be too careful
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| Mais le temps que ta vie t’assaute
| But the time that your life assaults you
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| C'était déjà l’accident
| It was already the accident
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| Pourtant, tu faisais attention
| Yet you were careful
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| Tu connais bien le genre
| You know the genre well
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| Pourtant, t’as perdu la raison
| Yet you've lost your mind
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| Le temps de l’accident
| The time of the accident
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| Oh ! | Oh ! |
| t’aurais pu le voir venir
| you could have seen it coming
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| Les autos ont dit: «c'était évident»
| The cars said "it was obvious"
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| Et t’aurais dû d’attendre au pire
| And you should have waited for the worst
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| Avec son rentre-dedans
| With its inside
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| T’as du mal à t’en souvenir
| You have trouble remembering
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| T’as même oublié son signalement
| You even forgot his description
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| T’aurais mieux fait de le fuir
| You better run away from him
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| Au lieu de foncer, cheveux au vent
| Instead of running, hair in the wind
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| Pourtant, tu faisais attention
| Yet you were careful
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| Tu connais bien le genre
| You know the genre well
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| Pourtant, t’as perdu la raison
| Yet you've lost your mind
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| Le temps de l’accident
| The time of the accident
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| C'était un jour comme un autre
| It was a day like any other
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| Il aurait fallu être trop prudent
| You should have been too careful
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| Tu cherches encore à qui la faute
| You're still trying to figure out whose fault it is
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| Mais c’est juste un accident
| But it's just an accident
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| Pourtant, tu faisais attention
| Yet you were careful
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| Tu connais bien le genre
| You know the genre well
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| Pourtant, t’as perdu la raison
| Yet you've lost your mind
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| Le temps de l’accident | The time of the accident |