Le garçon que j'aimais [English translation]

The boy I used to love

will never come back again

and his lips will say no

more the words that I used to know.

The boy I used to love,

You would have thought when he spoke

that from the deep of his youth,

Centuries of tenderness

were coming over you.

The boy I used to love,

seemed to be, when he walked by,

looking straight before him.

opening wide the gates of life,

But, I shall see no.more of him,

I shall never more listen to his heart sing

For, I was robbed one day

from the boy I used to love.

Stolen in the month of May,

Without him understanding

he was given a war-gun..

There is for me no need to say.

I know that you will understand why I say

That I will never see him again.