La Foule [English translation]

I can still picture the town, festive and delirious

Suffocating under the sun and from the joy

And along with the music I hear the shouts and laughs

Bursting and bouncing all around me

And lost among the people pushing me around

Dazed and helpless, I stand still

When suddenly I turn around, he steps back

And the crowd throws me right into his arms

Taken away by the crowd that drags us and sweeps us along

Pressed against each other

We are but one body

And the flow effortlessly pushes us, chained together

And leaves us both

Radiant, beaming, and happy

Swept away by the crowd that moves and dances

A frenzied farandole, our two hands stay binded

And as we are lifted up, our entwined bodies take off the ground

And fall back together

Radiant, beaming, and happy

And the joy fired up by his smile

Runs through me and wells up again in my heart

But suddenly I let out a scream among the laughter

As the crowd tears him from my arms

Carried away by the crowd that drags us and sweeps us along,

Taking us further apart from each other

I fight, I put up a struggle

But the sound of his voice is drowned by the people's laughter

And I scream in pain, in fury and in rage, and I weep

Swept away by the crowd that moves and dances

A frenzied farandole, I'm taken further and further away

And I clench my fists, cursing the crowd that robs me

Of the man it had given me

And that I never found again

• Artist:Édith Piaf