Les filles de l'aurore [English translation]

The girls of dawn

I still can go back to them.

Their body is wrapped

in love and gold

the roll of a dice could win.

In their eyes dwell

dreams unthought-of

as all of you still sleep

as dawn sees them go by in pairs

And I come well after dawn

as the sun rises in Saint-Jean

I’d like to tell them I still love you

You, who always walk away

The boys of dawn

slip their body into

worn denims.

With nervous fingers

they comb their hairs

and move outside.

In their eyes dwell

the dreams of the strongest

the wars they still wage

as dawn sees them march in pairs

And I come well after dawn

as the sun rises in Saint-Jean

I’d like to tell them I still love you

You, who always walk away

The lovers of dawn

still abandon themselves

in crumpled sheets

heart still pounding.

Is it love or death

that holds them embraced?

In their eyes dwell

some dreams I used to dream so hard

for you to stay some more

as dawn watched over us both.

And I come back well after dawn

as the sun rises in Saint-Jean

I’d like to tell them I still love you

You who always walk away.