Nous n'étions pas pareils [English translation]

We weren't kindred spirits

Me, child of the sun

And you, daughter of the fog

Your skin was transparent-like

Whiter than the winter

My skin was brown

Your suitcase in hand,

You came from far away

Maybe from Norway

As for me, I was from somewhere else

From a country where the flowers

Don't fear snow

We weren't the same

Like the fog and the sunlight

Could they have understood each other?

Our Tower of Babel

Was an old hotel

Four walls, one room

We went through

Every little street

In the Map of Tendre*

And we slept

A thousand and one nights

All more beautiful than the legend itself

We were not the same

Me, child of the sun

And you, daughter of the fog

If I came to your house

I'd then be very cold

I'd then catch a cold

If you came to my house,

You would be astonished

At not seeing snow

But it snows in my heart

It snows flower petals

From Norway

We weren't the same

Me, the child of the sun

And, you the daughter of the fog