Katy Cruelle [English translation]

When I was a child

I used to listen to the wind

and dream my way

to the end of the world.

I shamelessly1 took

my first lover

when I was not yet sixteen.

Where are you headed, you cruel, unfaithful girl?

Where are you headed, heartless Kathy?

I go where the wind goes,

I never resist it2

All that I lived is swept away

by every new day.

Since then, all my lovers

call me the girl of the wind

who blows through (their) hearts and is gone.

Where are you headed, you cruel, unfaithful girl?

Where are you headed, heartless Kathy?

Yet in the evenings the wind often talks to me

about hope. And when I dare believe it,

my heart becomes heavy.

Let him come, this lover

who could turn the wind

into the nice torment of love.

Where are you headed, you cruel, unfaithful girl?

You heartless girl!

1. "sans baisser les paupières" (without lowering my eyelids)2. could also mean "And that I never deny".

Both would make sense, maybe both are intended

• Artist:Marie Laforêt