Hélène [English translation]

The black satin on her white complexion

Admit, bathrobe, that it's troubling

Ô, ô, admit that it's troubling

I would drown her courtiers

But I'd take it for a hundred and ten years1

At least, at least a hundred and ten years

Hélène2

But I'm writing to you anyway

That I love you, Hélène.

Let me become your lover

Only mountain dweller of your white mounts

Ô, ô, of your white mounts

Hélène,

I'm going to loose my breath

But I'm shouting anyway

That I love you, Hélène.

All San Francisco Bay

Would like so much that I go away

I loose my alphabet

I love so much reading it in braille

Ai ai ai ai ai!

If you don't throw all these Don Juan3

Me, I come back at Mum's

Ô, ô, me at Mum's

Hélène!

Ô, ô Hélène!

All San Francisco Bay

The black soap on these white breasts

Admit, bathtub, that it's troubling,

Ô, ô, admit that it's troubling.

1. Refers to years of prison.2. Hélène is the French equivalent of Elena|/fn],

I'm not Verlaine, Paul Verlaine is a French poet and writer.3. Don Juan is a fictive character described as a great seducer.

• Artist:Julien Clerc
• Album:Les Aventures à l'eau (1987)