Le jour le plus froid du monde [English translation]

They say I was born on the coldest day ever.

They say I was born with a frozen heart.

Sound like I've even been carried at belly's length

on top of the hill overlooking the city...

And its steeples!

Up there in a weird house was living

A midwife said to be crazy by all the inhabitants,

When really she was just fixing

Lost and broken people, documented or not, all the time.

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of...

Fixing people!

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of...

Fixing people!

When she put me on the kitchen table

I thought for minute she wanted to eat me alive.

Does she think I'm some kind of roasted chicken

Somebody forgot to kill?

She was carving into my chest skin.

With her big notched scissors stuck between my bones,

She shoved a clock into my frozen broken pieces

Instead of my frost-bitten heart.

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of...

Fixing people!

She told me "son, there are three things

You must never ever forget.

First, don't touch your clock hands,

Second, you shall control your anger.

And above all, don't you never forget, no matter what,

Don't ever let yourself fall in love.

For then, and forever, in your heart's clock

The hour hand shall pierce through your skin,

The clock shall explode, your bones shall implde,

And your heart's clockwork

Shall be broken again.

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of...

Fixing people!

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of,

Oh Madeleine who just loved,

Oh Madeleine who was so fond of...

Fixing people!

Oh Madeleine...

Oh Madeleine...

Oh Madeleine...