Des ronds dans l'eau [English translation]

You started out your life

Near a little brook

You lived with all these noises

Running through the reeds

Coming up from the pathways

That go through the hedges,

The windmill's wings,

And the noon bells

Accentuating with a smile

The song of a bird,

You really enjoyed

Making ripples in water

Today you buffet

In heavier waters

You strive and you manage to float

But where has the love gone ?

Ambition has laws

Ambition is an addiction

You would like your voice

To be heard above all

You'd like to be loved

As a hero would be

But a hero that still could

Make ripples in water

If you get all these witnesses

That you wish for to back you

Remember that they could,

As they see your ripples in water,

Think you are an idiot

The idiot of your village

Who stayed there forever

Just to make ripples in water

To make ripples in water.

• Artist:Françoise Hardy
• Album:Ma jeunesse fout le camp... (1967)