À regarder la mer [English translation]

And I spend hours looking at the sea

The heart is stunned, the thoughts are scattered

And I understand nothing about this sad universe

Everything is grey as the rain and the winter

I am this proud boat we saw leaving on a journey one day

A journey from which she will never return

The sea has its lovers to get drunk from its wind

The sea has its lovers to get drunk from its parties

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Whoever can't understand me can't understand the sea

In this great universe I will have been

One, one of this lonely sailors

And the useless scream of a useless party

And I spend hours

And I spend hours

Looking at the sea