Éblouie par la nuit [English translation]

Blinded in the night by fatal flashes of light

just missing the cars, with pupils like pinheads.

I've waited a hundred years for you on black and white roads

you came whistling past

Blinded in the night by fatal flashes of light

kicking around tin cans, as clueless as a ship

if I've blown my mind, I love you and even worse

you came whistling past

Blinded in the night by fatal flashes of light.

will you love life or just watch it go by?

Our nights smoked, almost nothing's left

but your cinders in the morning

On this train filled with life's headaches

At the next station, young european

lay your hand out, sink it to the bottoms of my heart

Blinded in the night by fatal flashes of light.

one final lap, with the hand stretched out.

I've waited a hundred years for you on black and white roads

you came whistling past