Comme toi [English translation]

her eyes were of a light color and was wearing velvet dress

next to her mother and the family

she stands in a distracted way under the mild sun at the end of the day

Is not a good picture, but we can see

happiness personified and the mildness of an evening

She loved music, especially Schumann and [then] Mozart

as you do

as you do

like you, who I'm looking at

as you sleep dreaming of all kinds of things

like you

She used to go to school down the village

she learned about books, she learned the rules

she sang about frogs and about

princesses that sleep in the forest

She loved her doll, she loved her friends

especially Ruth and Anna and Jeremie the most

maybe one day the would get married in Warsaw

as you do

as you do

like you, who I'm looking at

as you sleep dreaming of all kinds of things

like you

Her name was Sarah, and she was not even 8

her life was tenderness, dreams and white clouds

but some people wanted for her something different

Her eyes where of a light color like yours, and she was your age

she was a little girl without a past and well-behaved

but she didn't live like you [ she wasn't born as you did]

here and now

as you do

as you do

like you, who I'm looking at

as you sleep dreaming of all kinds of things

like you