La Cavalerie [English translation]

Whenever I see the wild bikes

That cross our villages

Coming from California

From Flanders or from Paris

whenever I see the flying sports cars

The fawn leather and the chromium

That cross my country

In metal and noise

Me, I'm thinking of the cavalry

Me, I'm thinking of the cavalry

When the storm goes away

When the heavy dust falls down

And as the country sinks

In sleep and boredom

Like in the epic movies

At the most critical moments

When all collapses in my life

When all seems compromised

Me, I'm hearing the cavalry

Me, I'm thinking of the cavalry

One day I'll hit the road

To elsewhere at all costs

I'll cross the night

To join the cavalry

I'll have at last all the courage

It will be my heritage

And I'll abolish the boredom

Through a new chivalry

Me, I'm thinking of the cavalry

Me, I'm thinking of the cavalry