Ma fille [English translation]

My daughter, my child,

I foresee the time you'll have to leave me...

To change season, to move house, to change habits,

I think about it everynight while watching out

Your childhood that's playing until breaking off the moorings

Leaving me the taste of a guitar chord

You traveled so much and, on my part, I was often gone

From the Indies to England, we've traveled all over the Earth but not always together

But each time we came back, our hands met up again

On the velvet-like back of a dog which loved us

It was our way to be good companions

My child, my little... Have a safe trip... Have a safe trip

You take the train to life and your heart will change country

My daughter, you are twenty, and I wait for the moment

Of the first meeting

We'll have at your place or at mine or on a terrace

Where we'll recall, with smiling eyes,

The cat or the fish which were tarking parts in our games

Where we'll spell out the years of your name...

Living under my roof, I felt at times that I had lost you

I will find you again, I will find myself again in every move of yours

We parted as parents, we meet as friends

It'll be better than before, I won't be older

I'll simply come to share your twenties

My child, my little... Have a safe trip... Have a safe trip

You take the train to life and your heart will change country...

On life's road, our two hearts will change countries