Assis sur le rebors du monde [English translation]

If I remember rightly

Said God in a corner of the sky

I’d started a story

On a new planet, all blue

Blue, to make it stand out

I’m going to go and sit on the edge of the world

To see what the men have made of it

I put a few short-lived people there

I’d mixed up the colours

I’d taught them how to share

They recited it by heart

“Always”! Always all together in chorus

I’m going to go and sit on the edge of the world

To see what the men have made of it

I remember having said to the men

A mound of flowers for every girl

Then I planted apple trees

Where everyone ate heartily

And everywhere, everywhere deep rivers

I’m going to go and sit on the edge of the world

To see what the men have made of it

Suddenly the whole city stops

It seems that the rivers have swollen

The children gather together, and worry

And ask “Why all these noises?”

It must be God and his white beard

God who’s sitting on the edge of the world

And who’s crying seeing it as it is!

God who’s sitting on the edge of the world

And who’s crying seeing it as it is!