| Les passants passant | The passersby pass on, a ceaseless tide, |
| J'passe mon temps | I squander hours in their silent wake, |
| A les r'garder penser | To watch them ponder, faces turned inside, |
| Leurs pas pressés | Their hurried steps, the clockwork path they take, |
| Dans leurs corps lésés | Wounds shadowed deep within their battered frames, |
| Leurs passés se dévoilent | Their vanished years unfurl like faded veils, |
| Dans les pas | Within each stride, a buried truth proclaims, |
| Sans se soucier | They move untouched by what the heart unveils, |
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| Mm... | Mm... |
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| Que, suspicieuse | Yet, wary-eyed, |
| A l'affût | Poised in the hush, |
| Je perçois le jeu de pan | I sense the sly god’s game behind the scene, |
| Leurs visages | Their features— |
| Comme des masques | Like masquerades— |
| Me fait l'effet répugnant | Awaken in me a revulsion keen, |
| Que faire semblant | For all pretense— |
| C'est dans l'air du temps | Such posturing is the spirit of this age, |
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| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
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| L'enfant n'est fait | A child is shaped |
| Que de fêtes | By revels spun— |
| Le fait est que l'effet se reflète | The truth is, every echo casts its twin, |
| A sa capacité | By her gift |
| De prendre le fait | To take the world |
| Tel qu'il est | Just as it stands, |
| Sans se référer | With no recourse |
| A un système de pensée dans sa tête | To the mind’s tangled latticework within, |
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| L'automne déjà | Already autumn— |
| C'était l'été | It was summer, |
| Hier encore | Only yesterday— |
| Le temps me surprend | Time startles me, |
| Semble s'accélérer | Its flow outpaces thought, a quickening stream, |
| Les chiffres de mon age | The ciphered years |
| M'amènent vers ce moi | Bear me toward some inward self, |
| Rêver | To dream— |
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| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
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| Chaque mois se joue | Each month is cast |
| Dans des cycles | In changing cycles, |
| Différents | None the same— |
| C'est marrant ces remous | Strange, these eddies that stir in my soul, |
| Qui m'animent | That set me in motion |
| A travers l'temps | Across the ages, |
| D'un état à un autre | From state to state, |
| J'oscille inexorablement | I sway, relentless in their pull, |
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| Par les temps je cours | Through time I run, |
| A l'équilibre | Seeking balance, |
| Chaque jugement | Each judgment made |
| Sur les gens | Of other souls |
| Me donne la direction à suivre | Reveals the road I must pursue, |
| Sur ces choses en moi | Toward those shadows in myself |
| A changer | I must transform, |
| Qui m'empêchent d'être libre | That keep me from the liberty I knew, |
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| Les voix se libèrent | The voices break free |
| Et s'exposent | And bare themselves |
| Dans les vitrines | In the glass arcades |
| Du monde en mouvement | Of a world that will not rest, |
| Les corps qui dansent en osmose | Bodies in rapture, joined in seamless spell, |
| Glissent, se confondent | Glide and dissolve |
| Et s'attirent | Entwined, |
| Irrésistiblement | Drawn together by an unstaunched zest, |
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| Par les temps je cours | Through time I run, |
| A l'expression | Toward expression, |
| Chaque émotion ressentie | Each pulse I feel |
| Me donne envie | Stirs in me the urge |
| D'exprimer les non-dits | To voice the silence locked beneath the skin, |
| Et que justice soit faite | And justice done— |
| Dans nos pauvres vies | In lives so wan |
| Endormies | And sleeping— |
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| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
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| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
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| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade, |
| Passe, passe, passera | Pass on, pass on, all things must pass, |
| La dernière restera | The last will linger when all others fade |