Magnolias for ever [English translation]

Your girl is crying in the night

Is she wrong or is she right

There's nothing I can do

Your girl is shining in the night

Burning burning burning bright

I don't know what else I should do

Tell her that I'm like her

That I still love songs

That talk about love and swallows,

Sorrows, wind, shivers

Tell her that I think of her

When I hear talk of magnolias

When I heard new music

resounds like the sound of battle

Your girl is crying in the night

Is she wrong, is she right

I don't know what else I should do

She's so strong that she's broken,

She was proud she's submissive,

Like a love loses its grip,

Breaks not bent,

You resemble her

When she trembles

And in your voice

I can hear sometimes

A little of her voice

She resembles you

When she trembles

When she cries

Here, in the heart

of trees in blossoms

Tell her that I'm scared for her

In the basements when it turns dark

When I heard new music

In which despair raises its cry

Tell her that I think of her

In a large field of magnolias

And if all of the flowers are beautiful

I often, often burn my fingers,

Magnolias in their hundreds,

Like magnolias of the past

I don't know what else I should do

The magnolias are always there

She looks like all girls

When they loved that way

Naughty or shy they may be

Poor violets or magnolias

She loves damp sky which threatens rain

And the deserts when it turns cold

Sometimes she cries when I arrive

And she laughs when she's going away

If you go into the storm

If you go you'll see her

Tell her that I'm just like her

That I still love songs

that talk about love and swallows...

• Artist:Claude François
• Album:1977