Soleil du Nord [English translation]

Here in Paris, it's late, the asphalt reflects the headlights

At the bottom of the thermostate we get a tan in a postcard

Long time ago in my young age

I used to think that factories were making the clouds

Is drinking water cancerous?

Nights in the hospital would become expensive

They say that people don't like to talk in cities

That they come to live as a thousand per square metre

Each in his cube, get old there, in the tentacles of loneliness

North sun, north sun

North sun at the second semester

Bad weather insists and the clown throws himself out of the window

One more day without shadow

When the star is at its zenith1

My city a fabric that's been sewn on the outlines

Spring makes us wild

At the first ray we dive in without a beach

We wait for the summer to cram in with others

These southern people with warm accents

We don't share the same horizons

To live yours we contribute

I'd like to see you all there, running through shanty towns

Dreaming of ivory towers where you raise your daughter

North sun, north sun

Crowded family with just one salary

It's seeing the 20-year-old mother and 19 summers of agony

Winter lasts for 3 seasons

40 years of credit the pretty house

Jackpot grows each week

Times get more tough

Friends don't have cigarettes anymore

Stuck tight in horrible jeans

Between the future and our origins

At the end it's going well in France2

We look for strings in ropes

We refrain from any advice

It seems to me that misery would be less painful under the Sun...

1. Zenith: the highest point of a star. For ex: at noon, the Sun is at its zenith.2. France is called "L'Hexagone" at times due to its shape on the European map.