Comme l'hirondelle [English translation]

I would like to write as the swallow

In a piercing shriek a truly new song

Give birth to myself, from you, mother language,

Count to nine and fly out of the egg

I would like to write as the swallow

A hymn to life when the evening falls

At the evening of my life, set the spark

And the fire to the ass of an immense hope

I would like to write as the swallow

Small black anchor, nicer than a plane

I would like to write a story, that

of the happy days, when we had

When we had as the swallow

All space for us, for us all the time

I would like to write it, not as a scholar

I would like to write it as the swallow

In a piercing shriek, drunk with clear sky

with my long wings, with my thin fork

I would like to write, free as the air

The virginal words my mouth dreamt of

When we had as the swallow

All space for us, for us all the time

I would like to write it, not as a scholar

I would like to write it as the swallow

As the swallows and their piercing shriek

Their top model body dressed with wind

Today none, they are in another place

Trying on the feathers of a newer lace

• Artist:Claude Nougaro
• Album:L'Enfant-phare