Diabolo menthe [English translation]

Within your schoolbooks

Are your dreams and secrets

All those words you cannot say

Words of love and tenderness

The words of a woman

that you hide, that we condemn

you're hiding little Anne

Within your schoolbooks

There's blood and tears

Your first heartbreaks

The first wounds

The first tears

That bruise your soul

That bruise little Anne

In the school cafeterias

You have to bluff and lie

Around the diabolo mint

When you recall the nights

From last summer

And all your first lovers

That you've only had while dreaming

Within your schoolbooks

are your dreams amd secrets

All the words you'll never say

of love and tenderness

The words of a woman

that you're hiding. that we condemn

You're hiding little Anne