Je finirai par l'oublier [English translation]

Way too many things make me remember him

Every object present here,

Or the song that I hear,

But that he doesn't sing anymore,

A nothing that makes me often think that I am lost.

I will end up forgetting him and smiling,

You, my friends

You'll try to lie to him.

If you see him, tell him

that I am joyful, that everything's going well

And that I need nothing.

If you see him, tell him

That very often in my garden

You could hear me laugh so loud.

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Every seed he had plant

Have become a wheat field.

Tomorrow, without him, I'll make so beautiful sheaf

That I'll can harvest a bit of his life.

I'll end to forget him and to smile

You my friends

You'll try to lie to him.

You'll tell him later

That our child who grew up

Don't talk about him anymore.

Don't tell the truth,

Don't tell that we'd need

More than a life to forget him.