À Paris [English translation]

Thousands and thousands and thousands of years

Wouldn't be enough to say

The little second of eternity

When you kissed me

When I kissed you

One morning in the winder light

At the Montsouris park

In Paris

In Paris on Earth

The Earth that is an star

In Paris

When a love flowers

It's like, for weeks,

Two hearts smiling at each other

Just because they love each other

In Paris

In spring

On the rooves, the weathercocks

Spin and flirt

With the first wind

That's passing by, indifferent

Nonchalant

For the wind

When coming to Paris

Has but one concern left

It is to dawdle around

In the uptown

Of Paris

The sun

Which is his old friend

Also takes part in

And, like two schoolboys,

They go on a spree

In Paris

And, hand in hand,

They go without punching each other,

Looking, on the way,

If Paris has changed

There are always

Taxis on the prowl

That illegally take you on

Before the parking

Where there's still the

Taxi agent

At the café

You see anyone

Drinking anything

Talking with his hands

Who's here since morning

At the café

There's the Seine

At any hour

She has her visitors

Looking in her eyes

These are her lovers

Of the Seine

And there are those

Who nested

Near the bed of the Seine

And who wash at noon

Every day of the week

In the Seine

And the others

Those who are over it

Because they saw it too much

And who want to forget

So they take the plunge

But the Seine

She prefers

Seeing the nice boats

Going for a sail on her

And with her stream

Playing caravels

On the Seine

Troubles

Are not just in Paris

They're all over the world

Yes but all over the world

Paris isn't everywhere

That's the trouble

In Paris

On July 14th

By the paper lanterns' light

You danse on and on

With the accordion's music

In the streets

Since The Bastille

Has been stormed in Paris

In every suburb

And on every crossroads

There are guys

And there are girls

Who, on the cobblestones,

On and on, night and day,

Are whirling and whirling

In Paris