| On m’avait dit «Te pose pas trop de questions !
| I was told "Don't ask too many questions!
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| Tu sais, petite, c’est la vie qui t’répond.
| You know, child, it's life that answers you.
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| À quoi ça sert de vouloir tout savoir?
| What's the point of wanting to know everything?
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| Regarde en l’air et vois c’que tu peux voir !»
| Look up and see what you can see!"
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| On m’avait dit «Faut écouter son père !»
| I was told “You have to listen to your father!”
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| L’mien a rien dit quand il s’est fait la paire.
| Mine said nothing when he paired up.
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| Maman m’a dit «T'es trop p’tite pour comprendre»
| Mom told me "You're too young to understand"
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| Et j’ai grandi avec une place à prendre.
| And I grew up with a place to take.
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| Qui a le droit? | Who has the right? |
| Qui a le droit? | Who has the right? |
| Qui a le droit d’faire ça
| Who has the right to do this
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| À un enfant qui croit vraiment c’que disent les grands?
| To a kid who really believes what the grown-ups say?
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| On passe sa vie à dire merci, merci à qui, à quoi?
| We spend our life saying thank you, thank you to whom, to what?
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| À faire la pluie et le beau temps pour des enfants à qui l’on ment.
| To rain or shine for children who are being lied to.
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| On m’avait dit qu’les hommes sont tous pareils.
| I was told that men are all the same.
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| Y’a plusieurs dieux, y’a qu’un seul soleil.
| There are many gods, there is only one sun.
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| Mais l’soleil, il brille ou bien il brûle.
| But the sun, it shines or it burns.
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| Tu meurs de soif ou bien, tu bois des bulles.
| You're dying of thirst or else, you're drinking bubbles.
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| À toi aussi, j’suis sûr qu’on t’en a dit
| You too, I'm sure you've been told
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| De belles histoires, tu parles ! | Great stories, you speak! |
| Que des conneries !
| What bullshit!
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| Alors, maintenant, on s’retrouve sur la route
| So now we're on the road
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| Avec nos peurs, nos angoisses et nos doutes.
| With our fears, our anxieties and our doubts.
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| Qui a le droit? | Who has the right? |
| Qui a le droit? | Who has the right? |
| Qui a le droit d’faire ça
| Who has the right to do this
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| À des enfants qui croient vraiment c’que disent les grands?
| To children who really believe what the grown-ups say?
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| On passe sa vie a dire merci, merci à qui, à quoi?
| We spend our life saying thank you, thank you to whom, to what?
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| À faire la pluie et le beau temps pour des enfants à qui l’on ment. | To rain or shine for children who are being lied to. |