Comme toi [English translation]

She had light-colored eyes and a velvet dress on

Next to her mother and the family around

She poses a little distracted in the gentle sun

of the end of the day

The photograph isn't good but you can see in it

Happiness in person and the sweetness of an evening

She loved music, especially Schumann

and then Mozart

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you whom I look at very quietly

Like you who sleeps while dreaming about [who knows] what

Like you, like you, like you, like you

She was going to school in the village below

She was learning books, she was learning the rules

She was singing [about] frogs

And princesses who sleep in the woods

She loved her doll, she loved her friends

Especially Ruth and Anna and especially Jeremy

And they'd get married one day maybe in Warsaw

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you whom I look at very quietly

Like you who sleeps while dreaming about [who knows] what

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Her name was Sarah she was not [even] eight years old

Her life, it was tenderness, dreams and white clouds

But other people had decided otherwise

She had your light-colored eyes and she was your age

She was a quiet and very good little girl

But she was not born like you,

here and now

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you whom I look at very quietly

Like you who sleeps while dreaming about [who knows] what

Like you, like you, like you, like you

Like you, like you, like you, like you