Dernière chanson [English translation]

Each time that we pick a flower

That we choose a winner

That we block an exit

Each time that we build a tower

We push back love

By a few meters more (x2)

Each time that we build a house

Like one with thirty balconies

In the cellars underneath

Children learn the smell

Of machine guns

And the mouths of sewers (x2)

It’s not important

These are my last tears

It’s not important

This is my last call before I shut up

It’s the last song I wanted to write

The more it goes, the more I live, the more I fear

The more I look elsewhere

The more It all trembles

I’m afraid of the void at the turn of the path

I’m afraid of having given

The power to fools (x2)

But the fools are very well to do gentlemen

Who have satin gloves

And claws underneath

And who enjoy pushing the frontiers

And who take my land

For a pile of stones (*2)

It’s not important

These are my last tears

It’s not important

This is my last call before I shut up

It’s the last song I wanted to write

It’s not important

These are my last tears

It’s not important

This is my last call before I shut up

It’s the last song before the war

Before the war