| Il a les cheveux longs
| He has long hair
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| Une moustache quasi-japonaise
| A quasi-Japanese mustache
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| Des papiers usés par les mots
| Word-worn papers
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| Des mots lourds en tabarnak
| Heavy words in Tabarnak
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| Il n’existe aucun verbe pour sauver la vie des poètes
| There is no verb to save the lives of poets
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| Les fenêtres sont trop ouvertes
| The windows are too open
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| Les bouches noires qui avalent les prophètes
| The black mouths that swallow the prophets
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| Le vide nous avalera à son tour
| Emptiness will swallow us up
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| Et nous verrons la petitesse de notre souplesse intellectuelle
| And we will see the smallness of our intellectual flexibility
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| Calude a des ailes au milieu de ses verbes
| Calude has wings amid his verbs
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| Calude a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| Calude has wings, but he can't fly
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| Calude a des ailes au milieu de ses verbes
| Calude has wings amid his verbs
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| Calude a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| Calude has wings, but he can't fly
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| Un carré noir sur le mur
| A black square on the wall
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| Calude se questionne et il recule
| Calude questions himself and he backs away
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| Il regarde la fenêtre par laquelle il se sent aspiré
| He looks at the window through which he feels sucked
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| Les bouches noires de l’univers s’ouvrent
| The black mouths of the universe open
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| Lorsque les portes sont fermées
| When the doors are closed
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| Où chaque berceau tourne dans la violence
| Where every cradle turns in violence
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| Puisque la souffrance est dans les nerfs
| Since the pain is in the nerves
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| Dans les mots aussi banals que chaise, pomme et frites
| In words as mundane as chair, apple and fries
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| Et pour ces quelques cons qui verront la différence
| And for those few jerks who will see the difference
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| Il sera trop tard
| It will be too late
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| Puisque pour Calude il est trop tard
| Since for Calude it's too late
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| Il avance, il va vite, il évite la vie, il se lance dans le vide
| He advances, he goes fast, he avoids life, he throws himself into the void
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| Mais est-ce que la mort est un but ou un simple cri?
| But is death a goal or a mere cry?
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| Calude a des ailes au milieu de ses verbes
| Calude has wings amid his verbs
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| Calude a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| Calude has wings, but he can't fly
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| Calude a des ailes au milieu de ses verbes
| Calude has wings amid his verbs
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| Calude a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| Calude has wings, but he can't fly
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| Calude Gravol
| Calude Gravol
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| Il a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| He has wings, but he can't fly
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| Calude Gravol
| Calude Gravol
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| Il a des ailes, mais il ne sait pas voler
| He has wings, but he can't fly
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| Voler, voler
| Fly, fly
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| Voler, voler
| Fly, fly
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| Voler, voler
| Fly, fly
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| Voler, voler | Fly, fly |