Dormir debout [English translation]

I had to be dreaming, 1

not a word, not a movement,

The man who could save love 2

left without leaving an address.

Somewhere in the sky,

I wait for news,

but the stars are hazy.

As much rain falls

as all the love he deserves,

the man who ran after Lucie 3

left all the same a little quickly.

In the bad tales,

in the sandstorms,

the devil is everywhere.

I had to be dreaming.

...had to be dreaming

It’s a crazy story,

all this emptiness that you leave behind,

the man who could save love

left without leaving an address.

To the sky somewhere, difficult to see,

when you’re K.O.’d on you feet…

Millions of lights,

hung from the barriers,

Of this time which ruins everything,

like signals to tell him,

that there are already rivers,

in the middle of the deserts,

and of the fields of rocks,

and most of all that we keep for him

that we keep for him

his place amongst us,

...amongst us...

In our hearts,

for all the time we have left,

the man who could save love

left without leaving an address.

From deep in the sky,

to the walls of the hotels,

the stars are hazy.

I had to be dreaming…

...dreaming…

I had to be dreaming…

...dreaming…

I had to be….

...dreaming…

1. literally "asleep on my feet" but the meaning is more one of incredulity - a reaction to something unbelievable 2. reference to his song "Sauver l’amour"3. another song - "Lucie"