À la gueule des noyés [English translation]

Streaked with light

The sea yells to death

Its lonely roars

On the harbor's rubber rings

A child plays outside

His heart is in nets

Braving destiny

Throwing pebbles

It will soon be the time

He will leave childhood

Taunting fear

He will try his luck

Further than the horizon

Where the shadow fades away

He has to break off all contact

To find back his prints

To frind back his print

He knows the dawn is unfaithful

& His destiny is like this swell

That never spreads its wings

He knows there's nothing more cruel

That the silence that the sea makes roll

Like a caress or a call

He knows

So he will go away

Like went away this brother

He was talking about in a whisper

The night in his prayers

Nobody cries gere

The absence of a boat

Everyone has his own pain

That we keep warm

He knows the dawn is unfaithful

& His destiny is like this swell

That never spreads its wings

He knows there's nothing more cruel

That the silence that the sea makes roll

Like a caress or a call

He knows

The procession has passed by

He didn't follow it

He no longer goes to pray

He knows he's grown up

So , gritting his teeth ,

He throws pebbles

In drowned men's faces

To see the sea cry