Nantes [English translation]

It’s raining on Nantes (French town)

Please give me your hand

Nantes’ sky makes my heart cry

One of these mornings

Just a year ago

The town had these dull tones

When I got out of the station

Nantes was still unknow to me

I had never been there before

This message had to be sent to me for me to make the trip:

Madam, please be there,

25, Wolf Barn street,

Be quick there is little hope

He asked to see you

At the time of his last hour

After years of wandering

He was coming back to me, right to my heart

His screams torning up the silence

Since he was gone,

For long I had yearned for him

This wanderer, vanished person,

Suddenly came back to me

25, Wolf Barn Street

I remember the appointment

It’s engraved in my memory

This room at the end of a corridor

Next to the chimney

I saw 4 men standing up

The light was cold and white

They were wearing Sunday clothes

I didn’t ask any questions

To these strange companions

I didn’t say anything but just from their look

I understood it was too late

Yet I was at the appointment

25, wolf barn street

But he never saw me again

He had already disappeared

There you go, you know the story

He came back one night

And it was his last trip

His last shore

He wanted before passing away

To warm up at my smile

But he died this very night

Without goodbye, without « I love you »

On this path along the sea

Lying down in the garden of stones

I want him to rest, at peace

I laid him down under the roses

My father, my father

It’s raining on Nantes

And I remember

Nantes’ sky makes my heart cry

• Artist:Barbara
• Album:Dis quand reviendras-tu ?