Tombe la neige [English translation]

Falling is the snow1

You will not be coming tonight

Falling is the snow

And my heart is dressing in black

This silky procession

All in tears of white

The bird on the branch

Laments the spell

You will not be coming tonight

My despair cries out to me

But falling is the snow

Impassive merry-go-round

Falling is the snow

You will not be coming tonight

Falling is the snow

All is white with despair

Sad certainty

The cold and the absence

This unbearable silence

White loneliness

You will not be coming tonight

My despair cries out to me

But falling is the snow

Impassive merry-go-round (x2)

1. Poetic variant of "The snow is falling," which tracks the French lyrics, and happens to be the same as the first verse of this unrelated song: https://gemiiniiriisiing.bandcamp.com/track/infinite-lines.

• Artist:Salvatore Adamo
• Album:Tombe la neige (1964)