| Elle tait venue comme une toile
| She had come like a star
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| Pareille celle des nuits de neige
| Like snowy nights
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| Le vent froid de sa steppe natale
| The cold wind of his native steppe
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| La suivait comme une mre, une mre
| followed her like a mother, a mother
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| C’tait mon rve, c’tait Sonia
| It was my dream, it was Sonia
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| C’tait l’amour qui venait du froid
| It was the love that came from the cold
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| Etait-ce un songe que j’ai invent pour un t?
| Was it a dream I made up for a t?
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| C’tait mon rve, c’tait Sonia
| It was my dream, it was Sonia
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| C’tait l’amour qui venait du froid
| It was the love that came from the cold
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| Son cњur dcembre a brl mes doigts
| His December heart burned my fingers
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| Mon coeur, j’en tremble
| My heart, I tremble
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| Elle n’avait pu se faire l’ide
| She couldn't have imagined
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| Que mon pays fait parfois l’t
| That my country sometimes does the t
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| Au doux soleil des mille ciels bleus
| In the soft sun of a thousand blue skies
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| Je devais lui allumer un grand feu
| I had to light him a big fire
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| C’tait mon rve, c’tait Sonia
| It was my dream, it was Sonia
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| C’tait l’amour qui venait du froid
| It was the love that came from the cold
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| Etait-ce un songe que j’ai invent pour un t?
| Was it a dream I made up for a t?
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| C’tait mon rve, c’tait Sonia
| It was my dream, it was Sonia
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| C’tait l’amour qui venait du froid
| It was the love that came from the cold
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| Son cњur dcembre a brl mes doigts
| His December heart burned my fingers
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| Mon coeur, j’en tremble
| My heart, I tremble
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| C’tait mon rve, c’tait Sonia
| It was my dream, it was Sonia
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| C’tait l’amour qui venait du froid
| It was the love that came from the cold
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| Un jour peut-tre elle me reviendra comme une fte
| One day maybe she'll come back to me like a party
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| Un jour peut-tre dans une gare
| One day maybe at a train station
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| Ou sur ma route, fleur de hasard
| Or on my way, flower of chance
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| Elle reviendra me parler du froid, elle reviendra! | She will come back to tell me about the cold, she will come back! |