Châteaux de sable [English translation]

It was under the yard of the college,

The first time that we touched each other's lips.

Since my eyes were singing, "Don't Leave me," by Brel, to you

I remember, we spoke to each other in poems

We spent sleepless nights getting into debt at the SFR

We repainted the world with the brush of our utopia

We told each other about our lives as if in therapy

We dreamed of a large family beside the sea,

Of a big ceremony after the "Yes" in front of the mayor

It was us against the world and that's what happened

Worse, when my epidermis made you an orphan*

We promised each other that we'd travel on the back of an elephant

Travel across the oceans, to end up on an island

You dreamed of being a nurse and I dreamed of being a lawyer

We're that our kids would have the Baraka

We believed that our love would protect us from everything

But a couple's life doesn't the stay the same after "I love you"

We believed that love would be enough

We believed that love would save us

We believed that love would protect us

But life and time stole our dreams

Six years later and I feel that the clouds only rained on our heads

Security guard, it's not enough to pay our debts

Maid, it's not enough to fill the plates

Of these jewels who never asked to be born

Tell me what my exam results are useful for?

What will happen to the honest man when you couldn't put shelter over the people who you love

Tell me, I'm losing my mind, help me

Because our problems are making me love the bottle

Help me

More and more it's making my youth go away

The years changed us and routine stole our promises away

In the family nest, we beat the wings and we spit

Out the names of birds with the force as strong as mouthpieces

Despite that, I know your feelings for me

However, today we talk about what happened to our lawyers

We believed that love would protect us from everything

But the life of a couple doesn't stay the same after "I love you."

We believed that love would be enough

We believed that love would save us

We believed that love would protect us

But life and time stole our dreams

And if someone told me one day we'd arrive her

I wouldn't have believed them

Us, who were so that we ended up here

What happened to us?

We believed that love would be enough

(We believed that love would be enough)

We believed that love would save us

(We believed that love would save us)

We believed that love would protect us

(We believed that love would protect us)

But life and time stole our dreams

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This life stole away our dreams

It was under the yard of the college,

The first time that we touched each other's lips.

Since my eyes were singing, "Don't Leave me," by Brel, to you

I remember, we spoke to each other in poems

We spent sleepless nights getting into debt at the SFR

We repainted the world with the brush of our utopia

We told each other about our lives as if in therapy

We believed that our love would protect us from everything

But the life of a couple doesn't stay the same after "I love you."