La dernière séance [English translation]

It's already getting light

The film is finished

I wake my neighbour

He's sleeping like a newborn

I raise my jumpseat

I want to yawn

It was the last scene

It was The Last Showing

And the curtain on the screen has fallen

The photo on the word End

Can bring smiles or tears

But I know the fate

Of a neighbourhood cinema

It will end up as a garage

As a supermarket building

It has no chance

It was its last showing

And the curtain on the screen has fallen

Bye bye, the heroes I loved

The intermission is finished

Bye bye, meet you never

My frozen chocolates, frozen

I was going to lonely street

To my neighbourhood school

At five, I was out

My father came to fetch me

We saw Gary Cooper

Who defended the oppressed

It was really good, childhood

But it's the last scene

And the curtain on the screen has fallen

Bye bye, trembling girls

For the young first-timers

Bye bye, meet you never

My frozen chocolates, frozen

The light is already off

The room is mournfully empty

My neighbour unbends his arms

He's going to drink a coffee

An old man is crying in a corner

His cinema is closed

It was the last scene

It was his last showing

And the curtain on the screen has fallen.

• Artist:Eddy Mitchell
• Album:La dernière séance