Petite Annonce [English translation]

"I'm seeking a sun girl to warm up my suburbs

A Provence girl for my escalators

I'm seeking a helping hand in the sleeping crowd

Write!

I'm seeking a flower girl near Saint-Germain

A boat girl to go out with on the Seine

If you want the sea at the bottom of the RER1

Write!"

[Refrain:]

I left the sun at the other part of day

I have no more than the night to find my love

I left the sun at the other part of day

I have no more than the night to fall in love

"I'm seeking a friend perhaps at the end of my country

With eyes like the sky and hair like leaves

But the sky is leaden and the summer is somewhere else

Write!

Write words to me that are impossible to say

Words of running water and words of forest

I'm seeking a flower girl in the town that cries

Write!"

[Refrain]

"I'm seeking a hawthorn girl in the maze of planets

In the years of prayer, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

I'm seeking a love of light and I have a headache

Write!"

[Refrain]

1. Presumably the Réseau Express Régional, a Parisian public transit system