L'été indien [English translation]

You know, I've never been as happy as this morning

We were walking on a beach, a little bit like this one

It was autumn, an autumn where

The weather was good, a season that only exists in the north of America

There it's called indian summer, but it was just ours

With your long dress, you looked like a watercolour of Marie Laurencin

And I remember, yes I remerber very well what I told you this morning

A year, a century, an eternity ago...

CHORUS:

We'll go wherever you'll want, whenever you'll want

And we'll still love each other when love will be died.

All the life will be the same as this morning

With indian summer's colours

SPOKEN:

Today I'm very far from this morning of autumn,

But it's as if I was there.

I think of you, where are you? What are you doing? Do I still exist for you?

I'm watching this wave wich will never reach the dune

You see, like it (the wave), I go back behind, as it (the wave)

I lie down on the sand

And I remember, I remember the high tides

The sun and the hapiness that went over the sea

An eternity, a century, a year ago...

CHORUS x2

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:L'été indien (1975)