| Happy birthday la vie, happy birthday la vie
| Happy birthday life, happy birthday life
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| Happy birthday la vie, happy birthday ma vie
| Happy birthday life, happy birthday my life
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| Je la vois qui danse, mon enfance
| I see her dancing, my childhood
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| Sous les soleils qui vous balancent de l’insouciance
| Under the suns that sway you with carelessness
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| Ma guitare s’accorde dire qu’il pleuvait parfois des cordes
| My guitar agrees it used to rain sometimes
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| Mais il faisait toujours beau temps sur mes vingt ans
| But the weather was always good on my twenties
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| J’ai tran dans le lit des mlancolies
| I slept in the bed of melancholy
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| a ne durait qu’une nuit, bien moins que toi, la vie
| it only lasted one night, much less than you, life
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| Tu m’as chant tant de jours les jolis mots de l’amour
| You sang to me so many days the pretty words of love
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| J’en versais des larmes de verre tes anniversaires
| I was shedding tears of glass your birthdays
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| Happy birthday la vie, happy birthday la vie
| Happy birthday life, happy birthday life
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| Happy birthday la vie, happy birthday ma vie
| Happy birthday life, happy birthday my life
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| Oh, bien sr, a n’tait pas toujours du gteau
| Oh sure, it wasn't always a cakewalk
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| Mais les petits bonheurs du jour valaient tous les chteaux
| But the little pleasures of the day were worth all the castles
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| Mes rves ont accompli ce long chemin selon tes vњux
| My dreams have come this long way according to your wishes
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| Tu me rends si heureuse, je te dis merci
| You make me so happy, I say thank you
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| Happy birthday la vie, happy birthday la vie
| Happy birthday life, happy birthday life
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| Le vent sur les bougies soufflera l’infini
| The wind on the candles will blow infinity
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| Happy birthday la vie, merci toi, la vie, happy birthday ma vie. | Happy birthday life, thank you, life, happy birthday my life. |