C’était l’hiver [English translation]

She said: "I've walked too much

My heart is too heavy with secrets

Too heavy with troubles "

She said: "I don't continue anymore

That which awaits me, I have already lived through it

It's more pain "

She said that life was cruel

She no longer believed in the sun

Or the silence of the churches

And even my smiles frightened her

It was winter in in the depths of her heart

(music)

She said that life was cruel

She no longer believed in the sun

Or the silence of the churches

And even my smiles frightened her

It was winter in in the depths of her heart

The wind has never been colder

The rain more violent than that night

The evening of her twenty years

The evening when she put out the fire

Behind the façade of her eyes

In a white flash

She has surely met the sky

She shines next to the sun

Like new churches

And so since that night I cry

That it's cold

In the depths of my heart

She has surely met the sky

She shines next to the sun

Like new churches

And so since that night I cry

That it's cold

In the depths of my heart

• Artist:Francis Cabrel
• Album:Les Chemins de traverse (1971)