| Que serais-tu devenue?
| What would you have become?
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| Aurais-tu les cheveux blancs
| would you have white hair
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| Et le visage marqué?
| And the scarred face?
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| Y aurait-il dans tes yeux
| Would there be in your eyes
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| Une lueur qu’on voit parfois
| A glimmer that we sometimes see
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| Chez les gens qui ont le cœur pur?
| Among people who are pure in heart?
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| Ou bien l’oeil noir et vicieux
| Or else the black and vicious eye
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| Qui rend l'âme obscure
| that darkens the soul
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| Que serais-tu devenue?
| What would you have become?
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| Aurais-tu brillé dans la vie?
| Would you have shone in life?
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| Aurais-tu fait briller ma vie?
| Would you have made my life shine?
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| Serais-tu devenue mon refuge, mon horizon?
| Would you have become my refuge, my horizon?
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| Seras-tu pour toujours le visage d l’amour emporté par la nuit?
| Will you forever be the face of love carried away by the night?
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| Que serais-tu dvenue?
| What would you have become?
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| Un arbre, un visage?
| A tree, a face?
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| Un tigre? | A tiger? |
| Pour que tu me dévores
| For you to devour me
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| Serais-tu devenue un pays?
| Would you have become a country?
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| Serais-tu devenue le sphinx ou l’air d’un pays montagneux?
| Would you have become the sphinx or the air of a mountainous country?
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| Laisse-la cette histoire
| Leave this story
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| Ne m’interroge pas
| Don't ask me
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| Car notre récit est interrompu
| Because our story is interrupted
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| Laisse-la
| Leave her
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| Notre histoire
| Our history
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| Que serais-tu devenue
| What would you have become
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| Si tu n'étais pas devenue le soleil lui-même
| If you hadn't become the sun itself
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| La lune elle-même, la terre elle-même, le vent lui-même
| The moon itself, the earth itself, the wind itself
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| Et le sang dans mes veines
| And the blood in my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines
| It's the blood that runs through my veins
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| C’est le sang qui coule dans mes veines | It's the blood that runs through my veins |