Le Bal des lycées [English translation]

It seems that life is in front of us

That youth is the virtue

And love will drive you crazy

We only get one and I lost it

At the bottom of the hourglass of time

You haven't come or I've drunk too much

Yes my heart has fought too much

Take me back

That it's far away the time of love affairs

The time of hearts that clutch each other

Yeah of girls that you hold

Hard against yourself

At the rising of the dawn

When we loved each other like hopscotch

Mates forever

When and when you will return

We will all leave each other one fine day

We'll come back to our speech

We'll believe that we've understood everything

We won't have understood anything at all

We will be provincial kings

We will be poor and penniless

Since with friends of before

We grasped death or beauty

We'll say never get old

Then we'll all end up old farts

Regretting what we lost

Those we've loved aren't coming back

When we had bodies of gods

When we knew how to cheat death

When we the finger to him up high

Truly profound

The time of high school dances

The time of dreams, of friendships

The time when we loved each other no matter what

The time of letters under the door

The time of girls in cars*

The time of walls and liquor

The time of razors on wrists

The time of our love games

The time where it's beautiful and that's all

The time of the fire always burning

The time when every girl is a port

The time of gods, of devils in the flesh

The time where you're afraid of nothing

The time when nothing is impossible

The time when you love your friends

The blow of slingshots along the road

Aeroplanes passing above us

The faces we've met, that we've lost

The people we loved then who we no longer love

The eyes that dry in the passing time

Friends we left behind

Life loses its mysteries

The evidence which tears apart and kills you

And the beauty of the girls when they are naked

Blood ties that the heart holds to us

The cross we bear and the heat

From you my brothers holding hope

At arms length my glory days

The perfumes we recognise more

The girls we never saw again

The holidays and high school dances

The ones who we never spoke to

Yeah everything that life has taken away

The muscle that doesn't stop bleeding

The things we can't redo

Everything that we'll have left behind

The dust and then the rubies

And friends in the depth of nights

In girls bosoms yeah you forget everything

The hemorrhage of our melacholies

Someday soon facing death

The memory will come back to me

All these things I've forgotten

Yeah so it's you that I loved

You know always facing death

The memories are coming back to us

Those we danced with

Holidays and high school dances

Those we danced with

The holidays^

The holidays

The holidays

• Artist:Damien Saez