Avec ce soleil [English translation]

With this sun, we feel the need

to enjoy the comfortable silence,

to drink in life

with little sips

Under the magnificent sky

along the slopes, nipping on blades of grass

and donning a pleated skirt, she watched

with a triumphant air

that this clean-shaven young man

or maybe, just still a child

wanted her

He asks for almost nothing, maybe,

just an indication,

for a smile to tell him to "come"

He asks for almost nothing, maybe,

the flight of a bird

with the flap of wings to indicate its freedom...

Under the roof of the mills

along the gray walls

Under the the neighboring road

and its gray pavements

Under all the hills

Under all the forests

Under the rises of heaven, without bells and without union

the love of children

cleanses

But, these are two hardened children

who no longer knew what to tell themselves

Because the words of adults

crushed their lives without merci

for they no longer knew how to dream, to laugh

An indifferent heart...

And still today,

along the hills

the blueberry filled poppies

wait in vain

for a cruel hand

to pluck it from its home...

• Artist:Édith Piaf