Chanson bleue [English translation]

I will write you a blue song

So you can have childlike dreams

Where your nights won't be filled with torment

And so, during the day, you will sing

So that others can hope too...

When the world has learned it,

Then you can leave life

You will come to sing in the skies...

...Blue Song...

You will make the angels cry

When telling them about your suffering

Bring in your too pretty hands

Your heart, your tears, and then life...

When Jesus died on his cross,

He suffered just as much as you did

Forgive your mother and the Good Lord

And leave on earth, just like God...

...Blue Song...

Now your mission is fulfilled...

Your friends, you will leave them...

Stroke the children's hair,

Smile to old people on your way

You, you don't have any tomorrow left:

Those sorrowful mornings are over...

St. Peter, the angels and the Good Lord

Will open for you the gates of heaven...

...Blue Song...