| j’aimerais bien savoir
| I would like to know
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| quoi rve qui ne rve jamais,
| what dreams that never dreams,
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| et ce qu’il a pour se distraire,
| and what he has for entertainment,
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| pour faire esquisser un sourire
| to crack a smile
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| cette vie qu’il a vivre…
| this life he has lived...
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| j’aimerais bien sentir
| I would like to feel
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| comme est faite l’me qui vit
| as the living soul is made
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| sans jamais sourire l’me…
| without ever smiling at me...
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| j’ai rv sans rien obtenir.
| I RVed and got nothing.
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| je rverai sans russir.
| I shall dream without succeeding.
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| mais ce que j’ai fait, que je fais,
| but what I did, what I do,
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| et qui n’est rien comme tout l’est,
| and which is nothing like all is,
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| j’en garde la trace en mon tre
| I keep track of it in my soul
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| du rve qui me rend muet,
| of the dream that makes me mute,
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| et je me ris de la fatigue…
| and I laugh at the fatigue...
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| les grands hommes de cette terre,
| the great men of this earth,
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| ceux qui fabriquent,
| those who manufacture
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| sans grammaire,
| without grammar,
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| des phrases de paix et de guerre
| phrases of peace and war
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| qui savent par coeur la pratique
| who know the practice by heart
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| sauf que la pratique se trompe…
| except practice is wrong...
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| oui, ceux-l ont de la prsence,
| yes, those have presence,
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| des foules, de la biographie…
| crowds, biography...
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| le destin les garde en la foi
| fate keeps them in the faith
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| que toutes ces valeurs font foi …
| that all these values are authentic...
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| j’ai pous la diffrence. | I pushed the difference. |