Une dame [English translation]

A lady

Walks while laughing in the street

Sunny

A lady

That everyone always sees

Crying

A flame

Dances deep in her joyful eyes,

Sky color,

A flame

That no one had ever known

At her place...

Because the man that she had loved

Abandoned her years ago

And, alone,

This lady

Spent all her mornings crying

Like a Madeleine.

Poor lady!

Who seemed unable to forget

Her pain.

How everything is beautiful!

How the sky is blue!

How everyone is happy!

How everything is beautiful!

How the sky is blue!

How everyone is happy!

And the lady

Wears a light dress, a hat

With flowers

This lady

Seems to have something new

In the heart,

In her soul.

She suddenly finds her twenty years

And her springs,

This lady

Who walks in the street her sweet dreams

Of a child.

We just told him

That he wanted to kill himself

Because the other woman left him

A lady

Who goes liberated forever

From a poor love,

A lady

Laughs to the angels and hums the refrain

Of the day.

How everything is beautiful!

How the sky is blue!

How everyone is happy!

How everything is beautiful!

How the sky is blue!

How everyone is happy...

• Artist:Édith Piaf