Nantes [English translation]

It's raining in Nantes

Give me your hand

The sky of Nantes

Saddens my heart

A morning like this one

It was only a year ago

The city already have this pale complexion

When I left the train station

Nantes was then unknown to me

I had never been there

This message was needed

To make me come:

"Miss, be at the rendez-vous

25 rue de la Grange-au-Loup (25 street of the Wolf's-Barn)

Quick, there is little hope

He asked for you ".

At the moment of his last moment

After so many years of wandering

He came back to me right into my heart

His scream tore up the silence

Since he was gone

This vagabond, this disappeared one

Here, he has came back to me

25 rue de la Grange-au-Loup

I remember this rendez-vous

And I engraved in my memory

This bedroom at the end of a corridor

Sitting next to a chimney

I saw four men raising up

The light was cold and white

They were wearing their Sunday clothes

I didn't ask any questions

To these strange fellows

I didn't say anything, but by the way they looked at me

I understood that it was too late

Yet, I was at the rendez-vous

25 rue de la Grange-au-Loup

But he never came back to me

He had already disappeared

There, you know it, the story

He was back one evening

And it has been his last trip

And it has been his last shore

He wanted before he died

To warm-up with my smile

But he died when the night came

Without any fare-well, without any "I love you"

Down the way by the sea

Laid down in the garden of stones

I want him to rest in peace

I laid him down beneath he roses

My father, my father

It's raining in Nantes

And I recall

The sky of Nantes

Saddens my heart