Comme un bateau [English translation]

[Chorus:]

A bit like a boat

I'm pushing ahead against the sea

I'm sailing over the waves

A bit like a boat

I'm pushing ahead and I'm proud

of what I'm carrying on my back

A bit like a boat

which finds its balance

between waves and chaos

A bit like a boat

I'm pushing ahead and I'm proud

of what I'm carrying on my back

A bit like a boat

Mother says that through hardships

we must keep on smiling,

smiling back at life,

And there's always something good

to take along as long as we're breathing,

otherwise it won't blow over

We're going

against the wind praying

stripped off of all our strength with time

(chorus)

With time everything goes away

With time everything goes away

With time everything goes away

With time everything will heal

I recall our hands freezing to death

this heavy sack on our shoulders

to eat our fill when life wrote its ticket

sharper than a knife

And then we got used to it

And then we got used to it

And then we got used to it

And then we got used to it, used to it

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With time everything goes away

With time everything goes away

With time everything goes away

With time...

And I'm rowing, rowing, rowing on the water

I'm rowing, rowing, rowing, but hope's flowing away

And I'm rowing, rowing, rowing on the water

I'm rowing, rowing, rowing ...

(chorus)

Like a boat

Like a boat

Like a boat

Like, like a boat