Tout ce qui ne reviendra plus [English translation]

In front of the post office, the carnival

Grounded red lorries crawling along

And a horse foaming at the mouth

Exhausted from coming and turning all the years

A failing fountain pen

And the blotter which drinks the spider

Scrawl on an exercise books which bends

Its dog-eared pages of little white squares

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

School street Madam Cazes

Offers us our first phrases

Those words that you hook together like trains

Those errors that you copy off your neighbour

Stitching one's best friends

Into the heart until the end

Sharing until the last louse

All those joys, all those sorrows, all all all

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

And in the casino park

Consuming lips too soon

Dying from love it’s too violent

When you’re all just ten years old

The girl who came and cut

The first heart shown

And like a dog seeking her scent

In all the others until the end

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

All those things that will not return

On the telly Golden Helmet bleeds1

Like a bull far from his fields

Couderc and Bala painting 2

The word rugby on my ten years

And my six years in your skirts3

My arms that longer let you go

And someone who closes the door

Where are you mum, where are you

1. 1952 movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casque_d%27Or 2. Rugby players, Couderc went on to be a well known TV presenter3. literally ‘dresses’