À flanc de certitudes [English translation]

Child on his way, in the streets or on the banks (at school)

within the reach of a spit, books on his back

I was discovering the exile and its eventful moments, this smell of lonelyness, this little persistant tune

Later, considering what's evident, what's conventional

From sybilline sentences (with hidden sense) to ones with innuendo

Tired to fail...(this part in French seems wrong)...., I occupied my lonelyness

This evil which no ointment can cure

The exile till death, you see, at the edge of certainty, this smell of lonelyness

Oh la vie à flanc de certitudes.

we could very freely translate by

May stranger go right now back to Strangeristan

Sur le champ les étrangers en "Zétrangie"

The waltz following the pace of late Jean-marie verses

The... of aunti Eulalie (I don't know what Tété means here, soufflet is English "bellow" in old French it means "slap" so I can't figure it out).

what an exaaltation, really!

Oh la vie à flanc de certitudes,

• Artist:Tété
• Album:Le Sacre des Lemmings et autres contes de la lisière (2006)