Gosse de Paris [English translation]

Kid of Paris

To kiss

We don't have a room

No money

Not even a bed

Even a broken one

Just a patch of green grass

Far from everything

But it was there that in the night

We heard the big wild trains screaming

Racing towards the unknown, racing without us

Carrying our hearts to the islands

Kid of Paris,

We cried

On a station platform

My friend,

Detaching

Our clutched hands

Above all a romance

Of Paris

I shouldn't have gone

I shouldn't have left you

We should have been content

With the happiness of four sous

Only you

Only me

Only us

You know,

Kid of Paris,

It was promised

Not my heart

Nor my lips

Have lied

If I never wrote to you

It's because the lucky star

Betrayed me

Believe me, I did what I could

But we will not see the treasure island

Far too many years have fallen over me

Too much time far from you but whatever

Kid of Paris,

Kid of my street,

Shadow among shadows

Of the suburb

I still love you

Lost friend

Of my first childhood

My love