Pour la peine [English translation]

When fear breaks in

On our illusions

We abandon,

Abandon,

And heaven forgives.

When the mind engages

In unreason,

The cannons sound

Cannons sound

And cries resound

Because of this pain

I bear you away

We want dreams

Which lift us up

We want flowers

Even in our sorrows

We want a sense

Of innocence

In the name of our free thinkers.

In the name of the tears

Which disarm us,

We must be able

To change history

Because of this pain.

In the name of our fathers who taught us

The worth of a man

Worth of man

Men such as we

In the name of our brothers fallen into oblivion

The rights of man

Rights of man

Right of men

We want dreams

Which lift us up

We want flowers

Even in our sorrows

We want a sense

Of innocence

In the name of our free thinkers.

In the name of the tears

Which disarm us

We must be able

To change history

Because of this pain.

I want to smile at your errors

To kiss your wounds

We will learn this outrageousness by heart

For our pains

Are the same.

We want dreams

Which lift us up

We want flowers

Even in our sorrows

We want a sense

Of innocence

In the name of our free thinkers

In the name of the tears

Which disarm us

We must be able

To change history

Because of this pain.

Because of this pain.