| Qui aurait dit qu’un jour, entre deux chansons,
| Who would have said that one day, between two songs,
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| Je ferais un dtour, pour aller voir Vierzon?
| I would make a detour, to see Vierzon?
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| Ce que la vie est drle, quarante ans sans se voir,
| How funny life is, forty years without seeing each other,
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| T’arrive, sans crier gare, et je pleure comme un saule
| You arrive, out of the blue, and I cry like a willow
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| Sur ta vie, sur ma vie.
| On your life, on my life.
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| Qui aurait dit au reste, qu’une moiti d’orphelin
| Who would have said the rest, that half an orphan
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| Que je fus sans conteste, un jour poserait la main
| That I was unquestionably, one day would lay my hand
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| Sur le corps de celui qui fut tant de mystre.
| On the body of him who was so much mystery.
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| Que jamais je n’ai dit le sobriquet de pre
| That I never said the nickname of father
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| De ma vie, de ta vie. | Of my life, of your life. |
| De ma vie, de ta vie.
| Of my life, of your life.
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| Serait-ce le sommeil d’un enfant couch tard
| Could it be a child's sleep late
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| Ou des gouttes de ciel qui mouillent mon regard?
| Or drops of heaven that wet my gaze?
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| J’ai vu couvrir de terre ton corps en bois dormant,
| I saw your sleeping wooden body covered with earth,
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| En recouvrant mon pre, je perds en moi l’enfant.
| Covering my father, I lose the child within me.
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| Je ne me souviens plus, de mmoire morcele,
| I don't remember, fragmented memory,
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| De journe, s’il en fut, o je n’ai pas pens
| Of day, if there was one, where I did not think
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| l’auteur de mes jours qui laissa composer
| the author of my days who let compose
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| En solo, pour toujours, celle qu’il croyait aimer
| Alone, forever, the one he thought he loved
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| Pour la vie, pour sa vie.
| For life, for his life.
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| Donc, pas de souvenir, aucune rminiscence,
| So no memory, no reminiscence,
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| Bien que j’ai d subir le poids de cette absence,
| Although I had to bear the weight of this absence,
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| Si j’ai d regretter, d’tre ainsi dpourvu,
| If I had to regret, to be so deprived,
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| Je n’ai jamais manqu de ce que je n’ai pas connu
| I never missed what I didn't know
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| Dans la vie, dans ma vie. | In life, in my life. |
| Dans la vie, dans ma vie.
| In life, in my life.
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| «Tiens voil le soleil, on ne l’attendait plus»
| "Here's the sun, we weren't expecting it anymore"
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| Disait-il, y a une paye, ce chanteur que j’ai cru.
| He said, there's a paycheck, that singer I believed.
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| J’ai d trouver des guides, des pres spirituels,
| I have found guides, spiritual fathers,
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| Des mots et des Maximes, pour me porter conseil.
| Words and Maxims, to advise me.
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| Si j’ai peu de «parce que» pour taire mes «pourquoi»,
| If I have few "because" to silence my "why",
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| Je ralise que je ne serai pas sans toi.
| I realize I won't be without you.
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| Que tu fus un fantme, tout a m’a fait grand-chose.
| That you were a ghost, everything meant a lot to me.
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| Ta vie brisa le mme, mais ta mort le repose.
| Your life broke the same, but your death rests it.
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| C’est la vie, c’est ma vie. | This is life, this is my life. |
| C’est la vie, c’est ma vie.
| This is life, this is my life.
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| Ben voil, tout est dit, je ne vais pas m’pancher.
| Well, that's all said, I'm not going to pang.
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| C’est la fin d’une nuit qui s’est ternise,
| It's the end of a night that's faded,
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| La fin de l’insomnie. | The end of insomnia. |
| L’arrt de la douleur
| Stopping Pain
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| N’a pas fait plus de bruit qu’un bris de coeur. | Didn't make more noise than a heartbreak. |