| Illusions, illusions, quelle raison
| Illusions, illusions, what reason
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| Peut envoûter un homme
| Can bewitch a man
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| Le ronger d’ambitions
| The gnaw of ambitions
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| Qu’il devienne funambule
| Let him become a tightrope walker
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| Sur un fil de soie…?
| On a silken thread...?
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| Illusions, illusions, qui s’en vont
| Illusions, illusions, which go away
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| Que l’on veut garder
| What we want to keep
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| Et qui restent à l’horizon
| And who remain on the horizon
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| Disparaissent comme des bulles
| Disappear like bubbles
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| Quand le vent soufflera…
| When the wind blows...
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| La grande roue n’attend pas
| The Ferris wheel doesn't wait
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| Regarde là, comme c’est beau
| Look there, how beautiful
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| Mais pourquoi restes-tu en bas?
| But why are you staying down?
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| Elle veut t’emmener là-haut
| She wants to take you there
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| Elle tourne, elle tourne
| She spins, she spins
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| Et mes larmes de joie
| And my tears of joy
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| Qui coulent, qui coulent, sont si amères
| Flowing, flowing, so bitter
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| Pourquoi?
| Why?
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| Illusions
| Illusions
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| Illusions, illusions, l'émotion vous prend
| Illusions, illusions, the emotion takes you
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| Quand une femme vous donne sa passion
| When a woman gives you her passion
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| Au ciné Eldorado, à la dernière séance
| At the Eldorado cinema, at the last showing
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| Illusions, illusions, Compagnon
| Illusions, illusions, Companion
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| De Galère, de colère
| Of galley, of anger
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| Une flèche, un poison
| One arrow, one poison
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| Dans le coeur d’un looser
| In the heart of a loser
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| Qui attend sa dernière chance | Who waits for his last chance |