Comme un légo [English translation]

It's a vast ground from nowhere

with nice silver handles.

The optics of a microscope

and all these little creatures running.

For each one pursues his destiny,

great or small

like in egyptian centuries

plodding along

bearing a thousand times his own weight

Under the heat and in the wind

basked in sunlight or in the night.

Can you see these living beings?

Can you see these living beings?

Can you see these living beings?

Someone invented this game

dreadful, cruel, enthralling.

Houses, lakes, continents

Like a lego with Wind

The weakness of the almighty ones,

like a lego with blood.

The tenfold strength of the losers.

Like a lego with teeth

Like a lego with hands

Like a lego

Can you see all these human beings

dancing together hand in hand,

kissing in the dark as their hair are blond,

not seeing what they will become?

For even if the Earth is round

and they cling to it,

there's nothing but the void beyond.

Sitting in front of leftover French fries

Sidereal darkness and a few amoeba dishes

All capital cities have become the same

through the facets of a single mirror,

dressed in steel, dressed in black.

Like a lego, but without memory

Like a lego, but without memory

Like a lego, but without memory

All capital cities have become the same

through the facets of a single mirror,

dressed in steel, dressed in black.

Like a lego, but without memory

Like a lego, but without memory

Like a lego, but without memory

Why don't you ever answer me?

Under this thousand pages mango tree

as you swing inside this cage

seeing the world from such a height

like a checkerboard, like a lego

like a rotproof raft

like an insect that would lie on its back

It's a vast ground from nowhere

with nice silver handles.

The optics of a microscope

We look, look, look through it

We see tiny shiny things

these are people wearing shirts

like in these centuries of the long night

amid silence or amid noise

amid silence or amid noise

amid silence or amid noise.

• Artist:Alain Bashung
• Album:Bleu pétrole